List of 77 Cloud-Computing Sessions at TechEd North America 2010 Updated with Webcast Links
A TechEd NA 2010 Sessions search on Windows Azure Product/Technology returns only seven sessions and Microsoft SQL Azure SQL returns only two sessions, but searching with Cloud Computing & Online Services as the Track returns 45. Strangely, searching with cloud as the Keyword shows 64 sessions.
Updated 6/14/2010: Added links to most breakout-session Webcasts and slide-deck downloads. Webcasts of Thursday sessions became available on 6/14/2010. Some sessions, such as the five Windows Azure Boot Camps, don’t have Webcasts.
Note: As of 6/12/2010, downloading slide decks for interactive sessions has problems. Investigating with @TechEd_NA now.
Updated 6/14/2010: Added DEV208 | Open Data for the Open Web (OData) with Doug Purdy and Jonathan Carter as a Breakout Session and changed count from 76 to 77.
Updated 6/12/2010: Added COS07-INT | Using Microsoft SQL Azure as a Datahub to Connect Microsoft SQL Server and Silverlight Clients with Liam Cavanagh as an Interactive Session and changed count from 75 to 76.
Updated 5/28/2010: Added ASI302 | Design Patterns, Practices, and Techniques with the Service Bus in Windows Azure AppFabric with Clemens Vasters and Juval Lowy as a Breakout Session and changed count in post title 74 to 75.
• Updated 5/23/2010: Added section navigation links due to extraordinary post length.
The following list is categorized by Session Type in the following order:
Breakout Session (46) - Interactive Session (11)
- Pre-Conference Seminar (1)
- Birds-of-a-Feather (6)
- Hands-on Lab (4)
- TLC Demo Station (8)
- Certification Preparation (0)
Note: Hands-on Lab and TLC Demo Station didn’t return sessions for cloud, so Cloud Computing & Online Services was used as the Track.
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Breakout Sessions
ARC304 | Real-World Patterns for Cloud Computing
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Auditorium A
- Track: Architecture
- Speaker(s): Wade Wegner
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Developer, Developer Manager, Solutions Architect, Web Developer/Designer
Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? And more importantly, what should you be looking out for along the way? In this session, we explore how the Tribune Company has embraced the Windows Azure platform (including Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, and Project codename “Dallas”) to enhance and extend new and existing applications. We explore how they leverage elastic storage, scalable Web and Worker roles, leverage parallel and distributed compute, and handle inter- and intra-organizational communications. This session provides you with specific examples of cloud architectures (with examples) that will help you evaluate the Windows Azure platform for your next project.
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ARC305 | When Green Meets Cloud: Application Models for Utility Computing
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Rm 281
- Track: Architecture
- Speaker(s): Ulrich Homann
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Developer Manager, Infrastructure Architect, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator
The cloud computing paradigm combines service orientation with utility computing. How does this impact application architecture? How do we design solutions that seize on the opportunity of cloud computing, to increase efficiency and effectiveness of our solutions in this new world? Come and hear how solution architects need to change the way they design in this new environment. Also, hear what new pressures on solution architects can be expected as the datacenter evolves into a cloud environment.
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ASI204 | Windows Azure AppFabric Overview
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Rm 398
- Track: Application Server & Infrastructure
- Speaker(s): Maggie Myslinska, Todd Holmquist-Sutherland
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
Come learn how to use Windows Azure AppFabric (with Service Bus and Access Control) as building block services for Web-based and hosted applications, and how developers can leverage services to create applications in the cloud and connect them with on-premises systems.
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• ASI302 | Design Patterns, Practices, and Techniques with the Service Bus in Windows Azure AppFabric
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Rm 265
- Track: Application Server & Infrastructure
- Speaker(s): Clemens Vasters, Juval Lowy
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
The availability of the Service Bus in Windows Azure AppFabric is disruptive since it enables new design and deployment patterns that are simply inconceivable without it, opening new horizons for architecture, integration, interoperability, deployment, and productivity. In this unique session organized especially for Tech·Ed, Clemens Vasters and Juval Lowy share their perspective, techniques, helper classes, insight, and expertise in architecting solutions using the service bus. Learn how to manage discrete events, how to achieve structured programming over the Service Bus buffers, what options you have for discovery and even how to mimic WCF discovery, what are the recommended options for transfer security and application authentication, and how to use AppFabric Service Bus for tunneling for diagnostics or logging, to enabling edge devices. The session ends with a glimpse at what is in store for the next versions of the service bus and the future patterns.
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Rm 398
- Track: Application Server & Infrastructure
- Speaker(s): Chris Kabat, Elizabeth Graham
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Cloud computing is a technology that has widespread impact on IT organizations of all sizes. Organizations with large enterprise applications, such as SAP or mainframe applications, often wonder how they can realize the value of cloud computing when they already have such as huge investment in on-premise software. In this session we demonstrate how we interact with a business process that involves an SAP and a Mainframe application from a cloud-based application, leveraging all the advantages the cloud has to offer. We use Microsoft BizTalk Server and Windows Azure AppFabric to expose enterprise data to our application in a secure and scalable way.
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ASI308 | Programming AppFabric: Moving Microsoft .NET to the Cloud
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Rm 398
- Track: Application Server & Infrastructure
- Speaker(s): Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. Companies also need to be able to start small and scale rapidly. This is especially important to smaller businesses that cannot afford heavy capital outlays up front. In other words, companies need the strengths of an ESB approach, but they need a simple and easy path to adoption and to scale up, along with full support for Internet-based protocols. These are the core problems that AppFabric addresses, specfically through the Service Bus and Access Control services.
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BIP201 | BDM Session: How Does the Microsoft BI Stack...Stack Up?
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 244
- Track: BI: Partner Services & Solutions Delivery
- Speaker(s): Andrew Brust
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Developer Manager, Project Manager, Solutions Architect
You're an experienced Microsoft BI professional and you think Microsoft's is the best BI stack out there. What happens if your employer or client has a large investment in a competing stack and therefore wants to use it instead? Perhaps you’re a CTO or development manager and you need to make a purchasing decision. You know Microsoft BI appears cheaper, but you'd like to understand how it really measures up to its competition. How can you compare Microsoft to its competitors, product by product, if you don't know the competing stacks?
In this session, Andrew Brust, long-time Microsoft BI expert, author and Microsoft BI Partner Advisory Council Member examines the product makeup, capabilities, reputation, and relative pricing of Microsoft's BI competitors, from the big guys, to the niche players, to the open source stacks and cloud BI startups. Learn where Microsoft bests its competition, how its price structure compares, where it may be subject to criticism, and where the stack is headed in future releases.
Learn the lineage and acquisition history of multiple vendors' BI stacks and how well those acquisitions and integrations have, or have not, been executed. Finally, learn where the competitive stacks interoperate with Microsoft BI, and in some cases where they require it. At the end of this session, you'll be able to make an informed decision on the selection of Microsoft BI, and be better able to justify that decision to a non-technical audience or to technologists not familiar with Microsoft's BI products.
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COS201 | A Day in the Life: Running Hosted Services in the Cloud
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Rm 291
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Gail Warren
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: IT Manager, Messaging Administrator, Network Administrator, Project Manager, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator
This session focuses on the operations and infrastructure for delivering Microsoft Online Services, enterprise-class software hosted by Microsoft and delivered as a subscription service. Customers require high availability, security, and reliability for their hosted applications and data. In this session, learn how Microsoft deploys and hosts the Business Productivity Online Suite of communication and collaboration software in Microsoft’s network of global data centers, as well as how incident management drives improvements in the service.
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Rm 387
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Mark Heneen, Steve Daigle, Tracey Jordan, Zach Beers
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Messaging Administrator, Project Manager, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
Making the decision to move your messaging and collaboration infrastructure to the cloud is a big step. But now that you’ve finished the evaluation phase and have decided to purchase the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) for your organization, it’s time to move your users and data to the cloud. This session provides guidance for coordinating and performing deployment and migration activities as you move from your current, on-premises environment to BPOS. This session guides attendees through three key deployment project phases: Plan, Prepare, and Migrate; with a focus on the tasks handled by partners and customers, plus a high-level review of tasks handled internally by Microsoft services teams.
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Rm 288
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Dan Kershaw
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
This session provides a preview of the identify and access solutions in the next generation of the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, showing the evolution of the BPOS sign-in services and directory synchronization with on-premises Active Directory infrastructure. The session also explores Active Directory federated identities working in conjunction with BPOS and cloud identities.
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COS207 | Microsoft Live@edu: Moving Your School Communication and Collaboration to the Cloud
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM | Rm 298
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Anh Vu, Raj Mukherjee
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Project Manager, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator
Moving email to the cloud is a big trend in Education. Lots of schools are also looking at how to leverage cloud solutions for collaboration. Microsoft Live@edu is part of Microsoft's S+S solutions and provides communication and collaboration services for educational institutions at no cost. Are you willing to join us in this session and become part of a family of thousands of schools that have chosen Live@edu? This session outlines the current features of a Live@Edu implementation, touching upon key IT and end user scenarios for an education institution. We also discuss how you can extend Live@edu to best fit your school needs. Additionally, we demonstrate Office Web Apps or the newest release of Microsoft Exchange on the cloud. Finally, we provide a sneak preview of where we are headed in the future with SharePoint based collaboration and productivity.
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COS209 | Building Momentum with Windows Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Rm 298
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Prashant Ketkar
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
This session helps IT decision-makers take advantage of Cloud Computing to meet the new imperatives of business agility. Discussion includes guidance for conducting your own Cloud Assessment and the best standardization practices within your IT department. Also covered is ISV migration successes, Platform technology innovation in one short year, and Microsoft’s own internal Cloud adoption of Windows Azure.
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COS301 | Building the Bridge to the BPOS Cloud and Looking Back Across It
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Rm 287
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Tony Safoian
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Messaging Administrator, Network Administrator, Other, Project Manager, Security Administrator, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
This session walks you through the practical challenges, theoretical considerations, and finally actual solution implementations of moving communication and collaboration to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). We focus on the core technology, but more importantly the X-factor of change management and the user experience demanding IT firms and internal IT organizations become organizational consultants in the process.
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COS303 | Lap around the Windows Azure Platform
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Rm 287
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Steve Marx
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Developer Manager, Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Messaging Administrator, Network Administrator, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Web Administrator/Webmaster, Web Developer/Designer
Come hear how the Windows Azure Platform provides a scalable compute and storage environment with Windows Azure, secure connectivity with Service Bus and Access Control Service, and a relational database with SQL Azure. Learn about these new services and see several demos that show how to build applications that run in and take advantage of Microsoft’s new cloud platform.
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Rm 283
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Brad Younge
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Developer, Developer Manager, Solutions Architect, Web Developer/Designer
During this session, we discuss how we accomplished the CRM Online and SharePoint Online customizations and integration that are available in our Stratus product. We initially demo the final product and touch on the high level architecture which includes three of Microsoft's cloud platforms: CRM Online, SharePoint Online and Azure. Then we dive deep into how we accomplished making customizations to CRM and SharePoint on the fly, how we created a seemless user experience in both the above applicaitons without being able to deploy custom binaries to either platform, and how the Azure platform brought everything together.
Stratus is an Enterprise Application Mashup tool that integrates the best features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Microsoft SharePoint. CRM users can feed client contact information and upload client documents directly to SharePoint sites from within Microsoft Dynamics CRM while SharePoint users can view these documents and general information about the CRM accounts, opportunities and cases they relate to. To learn more go to http://stratus.statera.com.
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COS305 | Microsoft SQL Azure Development Best Practices
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 281
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Rick Negrin
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Developer Manager, Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Web Administrator/Webmaster, Web Developer/Designer
This session covers best practices for using the SQL Azure cloud relational database. We walk through the creation of a departmental application from scratch. We see firsthand how easy it is to provision a SQL Azure Database and start developing against it. We also look at importing and exporting data, and reporting. Time is also spent looking at strategies for migrating your existing applications to the cloud so that you are provided with high availability, fault tolerance and visibility to these often unseen data repositories. Finally we see how the reach of the cloud provides you with opportunities to create a new, differentiated class of applications.
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COS306 | The Economics of Cloud Computing
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Rm 398
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Dianne O'Brien
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Developer Manager, Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Messaging Administrator, Network Administrator, Security Administrator, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Web Administrator/Webmaster, Web Developer/Designer
When architecting and developing cloud applications, you now have the ability to directly impact the cost for running your application. In this session, learn about the Windows Azure Platform pricing model, the service level agreements for the platform, and the top cost considerations you should make when architecting your application.
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COS307 | Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to Build Applications That Run on Windows Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 356
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Jim Nakashima
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Developer Manager, Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Messaging Administrator, Network Administrator, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Web Administrator/Webmaster, Web Developer/Designer
A platform is only as powerful as the tools that let you build applications for it. This session focuses on using demos, not slides, to show the best way to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop Windows Azure applications. Learn tips, tricks and solutions to common problems when creating or moving an existing application to run on Windows Azure. Come see how Visual Studio 2010 supports all parts of the development cycle as we show how to take an ASP.NET application running on IIS and make it a scalable cloud application running on Windows Azure.
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COS309 | Why Uptime Alone is No Longer Enough
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Rm 287
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Pat Filoteo, Sean Cunningham
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Developer Manager, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Web Administrator/Webmaster, Web Developer/Designer
In this session, learn how you can use cloud computing to drive business agility while reducing your costs.
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COS311 | Migrating Applications to Microsoft SQL Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Rm 279
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Cihan Biyikoglu
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Are you looking to migrate your on-premise applications and database from MySql or other RDBMs to SQL Azure? Or are you simply focused on the easiest ways to get your SQL Server database up to SQL Azure? Then, this session is for you. We cover two fundamental areas in this session: application data access tier and the database schema+data. In Part 1, we dive into application data-access tier, covering common migration issues as well as best practices that will help make your data-access tier more resilient in the cloud and on SQL Azure. In Part 2, the focus is on database migration. We go through migrating schema and data, taking a look at tools and techniques for efficient transfer of schema through Management Studio and Data-Tier Application (DAC). Then, we discover efficient ways of moving small and large data into SQL Azure through tools like SSIS and BCP. We close the session with a glimpse into what is in store in future for easing migration of applications into SQL Azure.
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DAT209 | What’s New in Microsoft SQL Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Rm 279
- Track: Database Platform
- Speaker(s): Patric McElroy
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Developer Manager, IT Manager, Solutions Architect, Web Developer/Designer
SQL Azure provides a highly available and scalable relational database engine in the cloud. In this demo-intensive and interactive session learn how to quickly build Web applications with SQL Azure Databases and familiar Web technologies. We demonstrate several new enhancements we have added to SQL Azure based on the feedback we’ve received from the community since launching the service earlier this year.
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DAT307 | Microsoft SQL Server Consolidation: Building a Private SQL Server Cloud with Virtualization
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Rm 283
- Track: Database Platform
- Speaker(s): Rob Reinauer
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
This session provides a deep dive by providing walk-throughs and demos of how to run and maintain SQL Server in a Hyper-V virtual machine environment. We provide an overview of terminology and concepts as well as key requirements and recommendations for setting up the proper environment. We discuss and demonstrate how to set up, maintain, monitor, and manage SQL Server instances hosted in virtual machine, and both highlight and show the benefits that can be leveraged from this process.
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DEV208 | Open Data for the Open Web
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 279
- Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks
- Speaker(s): Douglas Purdy, Jonathan Carter
- Level: 200 – Intermediate
- Audience: Developer, Developer Manager, Web Developer/Designer
There is no shortage of valuable data being generated by applications, reports, tools, Web sites, etc. Unfortunately, this leaves many of us wishing we could programmatically access the data and logic behind an app, report, or Web site. To break down data silos and increase the shared value of data and its associated business logic through the Web, Microsoft has recently announced the Open Data Protocol which enables exposing any data source as a Web-friendly data feed. Join this session to understand what the Open Data Protocol (OData) is and how it adds end-user and developer value to many of Microsoft's leading products and services (such as SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Codename "Dallas", Windows Azure, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel, Visual Studio, .NET, Silverlight, AJAX, etc.) and is accessible from a range of platforms such as Java and PHP.
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Auditorium B
- Track:
- Speaker(s): Garth Fort
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
In Foundational Sessions, senior executives from Microsoft bridge the general Keynote topics and the in-depth Breakout Sessions by sharing the company’s vision, strategy, and roadmap across our products and technologies. This session focuses on Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Windows Server, and System Center.
FDN-3 | FOUNDATIONAL SESSION: Extending Business Productivity to the Cloud
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Auditorium A
- Track:
- Speaker(s): Neil Leslie
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
In Foundational Sessions, senior executives from Microsoft bridge the general Keynote topics and the in-depth Breakout Sessions by sharing the company’s vision, strategy, and roadmap across our products and technologies. This session focuses on Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office, Unified Communications, and Microsoft Online Services.
MGT205 | What's New Since the Release of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Rm 295
- Track: Management
- Speaker(s): Chris Harris
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
Join us to learn developments that have taken place since the R2 release of Operations Manager 2007, including cumulative updates for SP1 and R2, new tools for diagnosis and troubleshooting, and new support for monitoring in the cloud.
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MGT301 | Managing Systems from the Datacenter to the Cloud
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Rm 283
- Track: Management
- Speaker(s): Paul Ross
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Project Manager, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
The buzz in the IT industry about cloud computing has continued to grow. There are many different perspectives on the cloud, its capabilities, its enablers, and what it means to the world of IT operations and systems management. Hear the Microsoft System Center team’s perspective on what cloud services mean for the datacenter, what you can do today with these services, and how your approach to cloud services can help you change your company's IT operations for the better.
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OSP204 | Developing for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Online: Understanding the Boundaries
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 261
- Track: Office & SharePoint
- Speaker(s): Chris Mayo
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
SharePoint Online is quickly becoming a great cost-effective way to manage SharePoint in the 'cloud' that can complement the way you architect and deploy your on-premises instance of SharePoint 2010. This session focuses on defining what the developer can and can't do with SharePoint Online to help you understand where the boundaries lie.
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OSP213 | SharePoint and Azure: How Do They Play Together?
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Rm 388
- Track: Office & SharePoint
- Speaker(s): Steve Fox
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
There is immense opportunity for you to build and deploy cloud-centric solutions using the new Windows Azure platform. However, what does that opportunity look like vis-à-vis Microsoft SharePoint? In this session, see the different ways in which you can integrate Azure services with SharePoint to extend your SharePoint solutions into the cloud.
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 391
- Track: Security, Identity & Access
- Speaker(s): Brian Puhl
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect
Microsoft IT has over 2500 "known" line-of-business applications (and probably as many unofficial). Microsoft IT discusses how we're leveraging AD FS 2.0 and Windows Identity Framework to redefine application authorization and authentication, for both on-premise and cloud applications, regardless of where the users are coming from.
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SIA303 | Identity and Access Management: Windows Identity Foundation and Windows Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Rm 295
- Track: Security, Identity & Access
- Speaker(s): Vittorio Bertocci
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Developer, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect
Claims-based identity provides an open and interoperable approach to identity and access control that can be consistently applied both on-premises and in the cloud. Come to this session to learn about how Windows Identity Foundation can be used to secure your Web Roles hosted in Windows Azure, how you can take advantage of existing on-premises identities and how to make the best of features in our cloud offering, such as certificate management and staged environments.
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 391
- Track: Security, Identity & Access
- Speaker(s): John Howie, Mark Estberg
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
The infrastructure that supports Microsoft’s consumer and enterprise cloud offerings, including Azure, Bing, BPOS, Hotmail, and Messenger, runs on servers in datacenters world-wide. Running as many servers as Microsoft does presents challenges for any management software, including Microsoft’s own, yet there is a need to meet compliance burdens and ensure the ongoing security of the systems that keep customers’ data both secure and maintain their privacy.
In this session hear how Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services security and compliance team meets statutory and regulatory compliance requirements, and keeps systems secure using Systems Center Configuration Management, Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager products, and Forefront Identity Manager and Endpoint Protection products. Also, learn of uses that these products are put to, that might surprise you, and many of the tricks and techniques used to overcome the problems of scale and geographic distribution, and how you can apply the same to your own systems and networks.
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Auditorium C
- Track: Security, Identity & Access
- Speaker(s): Matt Steele
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Developer, IT Manager, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Engineer, Web Administrator/Webmaster, Web Developer/Designer
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 is designed to meet the growing demand for a single sign-on solution that crosses organization, application and platform boundaries. In this session learn what's new in AD FS 2.0, how usage of claims in AD FS 2.0 solves identity problems for admins and users, as well as best practices for a secure and highly available AD FS 2.0 deployment.
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SIA332 | Securing the Cloud: Expert Panel
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Rm 272
- Track: Security, Identity & Access
- Speaker(s): Andy Malone, John Howie, Laura Chappell, Mark Minasi, Mike Chan, Patrick Hevesi
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Database Administrator, IT Manager, Messaging Administrator, Network Administrator, Security Administrator
Cloud computing offers enterprises of all sizes opportunities to shift and reduce costs, take advantage of the latest technologies, gain disaster recovery capabilities, and do away with much of the headache of managing servers and software. However, with cloud computing come concerns around security and privacy, especially in public clouds where data from one customer is stored alongside data belonging to another, and applications and services run side-by-side. Come to this panel session to hear from leading Microsoft and industry experts on cloud computing, as they provide their thoughts on cloud security and privacy, and answer your questions.
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SIA337 | Data Governance for Privacy, Confidentiality, and Compliance
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Rm 388
- Track: Security, Identity & Access
- Speaker(s): Javier Salido
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, Solutions Architect
Organizations today struggle with the challenge of maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of personal information and intellectual property, as well as meeting associated regulatory compliance obligations. In this talk we analyze a proposed process, as well as the tools and techniques (including threat modeling) to: a) rationalize relevant requirements from laws and regulations, b) select the appropriate controls to meet these requirements, and c) select the appropriate products and configurations to meet control objectives. We discuss the use of this process and tools in cloud and in mixed environments.
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UNC206 | Microsoft Communications Online: Present and Future
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Rm 383
- Track: Unified Communications
- Speaker(s): Dennis Karlinsky, Ziv Fass
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
Microsoft Communications Server "14" is on the way and that means new capabilities for both on-premises and cloud service offerings. Gain a better understanding of the current and future capabilities in Microsoft Communications Online. We cover all workloads, including IM/Presence, conferencing and voice, as well as a deep-dive into the co-existence scenarios for hybrid online and on-premise deployment options.
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UNC309 | Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to Achieve Rich Coexistence with Exchange Online
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Rm 295
- Track: Unified Communications
- Speaker(s): Evan Dodds
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Exchange Server 2010 was designed to support hybrid deployments of on-premises and cloud users. Come and learn how rolling out an Exchange 2010 server in your current Exchange environment prepares you for seamless integration with Exchange Online. Whether you are piloting a few users or moving a large part of your workforce to the cloud, we give you the technical details on Exchange-to-cloud integration that you need to be successful.
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VIR205 | How to Implement and Manage an Application-Optimized Private Cloud Infrastructure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Rm 283
- Track: Virtualization
- Speaker(s): Bradford Kirby, Radhesh Balakrishnan
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: IT Manager
The HP-Microsoft Application-Optimized Infrastructure initiative is focused on enabling IT admins to manage virtualized/private cloud infrastructure and optimize IT service delivery through Deployment | Management | Monitoring | Servicing stages of the lifecycle. During this session, understand how you can implement a virtualized/ private cloud infrastructure while reducing complexity through dynamic resource pooling, improving operational efficiency through service provisioning, comprehensive insight and control, and reducing risk through reference solution architectures for virtualizing mission-critical applications like Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, and core infrastructure services. The following products and solutions will also be demoed: 1. Microsoft System Center enhanced with HP Insight Control for hardware management 2. Long Distance Live Migration showcasing Service Manager, Ops Manager, VMM with HP EVA CLX 3. Provisioning into the private Cloud utilizing DIT-SC, SCVMM and LeftHand Networks Storage
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- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Rm 291
- Track: Virtualization
- Speaker(s): Dai Vu
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: IT Manager
Learn about the Microsoft virtualization strategy from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud -- and how it will help you cut costs and build value. In this session we review and demonstrate Microsoft virtualization products and discuss how you can use them to solve today's IT issues (cost cutting, consolidation, business continuity, green IT), develop new computing solutions (VDI) and build a foundation for a more dynamic IT environment, including cloud computing. The session reviews all of the latest Microsoft virtualization products, including Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server, as well as the System Center management platform (including Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2). Learn about the innovative pricing and licensing structure that allows further savings to lower both acquisition and ongoing ownership costs. Learn how you can enable IT to become a cost cutting mechanism with Microsoft virtualization and management technologies.
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WAzBC-1 | Windows Azure Boot Camp
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Rm 396
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Brian Moore, Brian Prince
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Take what you’ve seen and learned here at Tech•Ed and put it to work with your own hands. Visit the Windows Azure Boot Camp and let us set you up with all of the bits and tools you need to start rocking in the cloud, and walk through deploying your first cloud application. Bring your application, build one with us, or deploy a sample application we have ready to go. All you need to bring is your laptop and we take care of the rest. While you’re at the Windows Azure Boot Camp, we can also discuss your applications back at work, and how they might fit into the cloud. We can even teach you how to talk about the cloud with management. We supply a free, temporary Azure account for you to play with! Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. What you need to bring: A computer or laptop running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, or Windows Vista Service Pack 2. We will have the following bits on USB drives to install onsite and get you up and running:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (free), Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, or Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with SP1*
- SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (or above) (this is usually installed with Visual Studio) • Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
- AppFabric SDK
- Windows Azure Platform Training Kit
*If you use Express Edition you should update to the Visual Studio 2010 free trial, to ensure you are able to complete all of the labs.
WAzBC-2 | Windows Azure Boot Camp
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Rm 396
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Brian Moore, Brian Prince
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Same description as (repeat of) above
WAzBC-3 | Windows Azure Boot Camp
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Rm 396
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Brian Moore, Brian Prince
Same description as (repeat of) above
WAzBC-4 | Windows Azure Boot Camp
Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Rm 396
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Brian Moore, Brian Prince
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Same description as (repeate of) above
WAzBC-5 | Windows Azure Boot Camp
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Rm 396
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Brian Moore, Brian Prince
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Same description as (repeate of) above
WCL203 | Online Services for PC Management: Introducing Windows Intune
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Rm 281
- Track: Windows Client
- Speaker(s): Marc Shepard
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
See how hosted, cloud-based services from Microsoft can help you more efficiently manage and secure your business PCs without the need to set up enterprise deployment infrastructure. This session gives you details on online tools from Microsoft and how they fit in with the rest of your desktop environment including Windows 7, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, and Microsoft System Center products.
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WSV303 | Death of a Network: Identify the Hidden Causes of Lousy Network Performance
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Monday, June 7 | 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Auditorium A
- Track: Windows Server
- Speaker(s): Laura Chappell
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Messaging Administrator, Network Administrator, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Web Administrator/Webmaster, Web Developer/Designer
“The network is slow.” Spine-tingling words to any IT professional. They always blame the network. This session focuses on the top reasons network performance generates complaints. Using Wireshark, the world’s most popular network analyzer, Laura examines network traffic patterns that “point the finger” to the cause of complaints. In addition, Laura provides a list of network characteristics you should look for when optimizing network architecture, rolling out new applications or expanding your WLAN, VoIP, cloud-based computing configurations. Finally, Laura explains the steps used in application analysis and compares an optimized and un-optimized communication. You will walk away with a clear list of steps to take the next time the users whine "the network is slow."
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WSV310 | What Does the Cloud Mean for the IT Professional?
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM | Auditorium B
- Track: Windows Server
- Speaker(s): Joey Snow
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
Do cloud services make the IT pro obsolete? Join us in this informative session to discuss the role of IT pros with regard to Windows Azure. Discover what’s changed and what hasn’t for the IT professional including how to manage services in the new cloud environment and what tools are available to help manage the application lifecycle.
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Interactive Sessions
ARC03-INT | Microsoft SharePoint Deployment to the BPOS-D Cloud: Good, Bad and Ugly
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Rm 346
- Track: Architecture
- Speaker(s): Marc Dencker
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience:
In this session we share experiences on moving a large enterprise customer from a non-Microsoft platform to the BPOS-D SharePoint cloud. Based on actual customer experience and examples we discuss what can go wrong, tripwires to watch out for, as well as provide advice on how to make this a smooth experience.
COS03-INT | Deploying, Managing, and Monitoring Cloud Applications on Windows Azure
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Monday, June 7 | 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Rm 348
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Ryan Dunn
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
Microsoft understands that cloud computing needs to provide the same level of manageability and serviceability as existing premises applications. This session provides IT pros and businesses guidance on best practices around management and deployment of Windows Azure applications to meet service level agreements and application upgrade requirements. Microsoft provided tooling is used in some cases to illustrate.
COS05-INT | Microsoft Live@edu: Moving Your School Communication and Collaboration to the Cloud
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Rm 347
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Anh Vu, Raj Mukherjee
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
Follow-up to the companion breakout session, this session provides an opportunity to drill deeper into Live@edu and discuss the ways educational organizations are leveraging the Microsoft platform to move messaging and collaboration applications to the cloud for their students, faculty, and staff.
COS06-INT | Migrating Existing Applications into the Cloud with Windows Azure
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Rm 350
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Mark Kottke
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
Windows Azure provides developers and businesses the benefit of lower TCO through fully automated service management, while providing instant scale out of existing applications. Come learn how to identify which existing LOB and Web apps make good targets for easy migration to the cloud and create a plan to migrate between on-premises to Windows Azure.
COS07-INT | Using Microsoft SQL Azure as a Datahub to Connect Microsoft SQL Server and Silverlight Clients
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Rm 347
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Liam Cavanagh
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
In this session we demonstrate how the Sync Framework is being used to enable a new series of exciting scenarios made possible by SQL Azure. First, we demonstrate how the Sync Framework is being integrated with SQL Server to make it easy to extend data to SQL Azure in only a few clicks. We then show how customers can drop down to lower levels in the stack in an effort to customize the behavior of that data movement without having to rebuild the application from the ground up. Finally, we demonstrate how the Sync Framework is being enhanced to expand our offline client-side reach beyond traditional Windows Presentation Foundation/Winforms applications by adding support for Microsoft Silverlight, HTML 5, Windows Phone 7, and other devices such as an iPhone.
COS12-INT | Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) v.Next: Identity and Access Solutions Drilldown
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Thursday, June 10 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Rm 347
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Dan Kershaw
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
Follow up to the companion breakout session, this session provides an opportunity to drill deeper into identity and access solutions in the next generation of the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. Ask your questions about the evolution of the BPOS sign-in services and directory synchronization with on-premises Active Directory infrastructure. Also explore Active Directory federated identities as they work in conjunction with BPOS and cloud identities.
COS13-INT | Database Performance in a Multi-Tenant Environment
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Rm 346
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Speaker(s): Henry Zhang
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Database Administrator, Developer, Developer Manager, IT Manager, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Web Developer/Designer
Microsoft SQL Azure presents unique opportunities and challenges with regards to database performance. While query performance is the key discussion in traditional, on-premise database deployments, we show you that factors such as network latency and multi-tenant effects also need to be considered in the Cloud. We offer some tips to resolve or mitigate related performance problems. We also dig deep into the inner workings of how SQL Azure manages resources and balances workload in a massive Cloud environment. The elastic access to additional physical resource in the Cloud offers new opportunities to achieve better database performance in a cost effective manner, an emerging pattern not available in the on-premise world. We show you some numbers that quantify the potential benefits.
MGT10-INT | Ask the Experts about Managing Systems from the Datacenter to the Cloud
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Monday, June 7 | 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Rm 350
- Track: Management
- Speaker(s): Paul Ross
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Project Manager, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
Still not clear about the many different perspectives on the cloud? Wondering what it means to the world of IT operations and systems management? Join us to get the Microsoft System Center team’s perspective on what cloud services mean for the datacenter. Bring your questions about what you can do today with these services, and learn how your approach to cloud services can help you change your company's IT operations for the better.
SIA32-INT | Cloudy with a Chance of Fear!
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 352
- Track: Security, Identity & Access
- Speaker(s): Andy Malone
- Level: 300 - Advanced
- Audience: Developer, Developer Manager, Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Security Administrator, Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
Cloud Computing is new, it’s exciting, everybody wants it! But just what are the security implications of placing all your eggs in a large multinational data centre basket? Where will your data be stored, who’s backing it up? What are the legal and law enforcement implications of storing your data in another country and most importantly who has access to it. These are questions that cannot simply be ignored. In this deep dive thought provoking session join Andy Malone as he attempts to find the answers. Is the 21st century data centre the answer to all our prayers or the beginning of a nightmare?
SIA33-INT | Managing Complex Requirements for the Cloud
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Tuesday, June 8 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 353
- Track: Security, Identity & Access
- Speaker(s): John Howie, Mark Estberg
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: IT Manager
Microsoft offers enterprise and consumer cloud services and operates data centers world-wide, and has many statutory and regulatory compliance requirements that it must meet. In order to better manage the requirements of each, Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services security and compliance team has built a compliance framework that is based on ISO/IEC 27002:2005 and extended it to incorporate the compliance requirements, and built an information security management system on ISO/IEC 27001:2005, and which is certified. In this highly interactive session listen to the people responsible for managing compliance and the controls in the framework about how the information security management system and framework was built and operates. Learn how you can take a similar approach in your enterprise, to meet your compliance burden. Bring your questions and get straight answers!
UNC07-INT | Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Cloud Conferencing Roadmap
- Session Type: Interactive Session
- Wednesday, June 9 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Rm 350
- Track: Unified Communications
- Speaker(s): Dennis Karlinsky, Ziv Fass
Pre-Conference Seminar
PRC01 | Strategic Architecture
- Session Type: Pre-Conference Seminar
- Sunday, June 6 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Rm 293
- Track: Architecture
- Speaker(s): Angela Yochem, Eduardo Kassner, Jim Wilt, Juval Lowy, Norm Judah, Sam Guckenheimer, Ulrich Homann
- Level:
- Audience: Developer Manager, Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Solutions Architect
Norm Judah | CTO, Microsoft Consulting Services | Architecture and Innovation
Architecting Solutions in 2015
Juval Lowy | The Art of Architecture
The software industry is in a deep crisis. Projects suffer from low quality work; schedule slips and cost overrun are common. The key for solving the crisis is to practice software development as an engineering discipline, just like mechanical or electrical engineering. That is both the responsibility and opportunity for today's software architect. Armed with that crucial observation, Juval describes the core skillset required of the top-tier professional, and the powerful implications this can offer every company.
Angela Yochem | Career Paths for Architects
Architects are often the senior-most technologists in an organization. Uniquely positioned to drive strategy, innovate, and reduce risk/costs, architects add tremendous value to their employers. Unfortunately, many employers still don't support rewarding career paths for their architects. In this session, we'll review lessons-learned from the famous and not-so-famous, and show how you can take control of your assignments, your brand, and ultimately your own professional destiny.
Eduardo Kassner | Connecting IT to Business Objectives
A conversation about the Microsoft Optimization Models.
Ulrich Homann & Norm Judah | Ask Norm Anything
This informal Q&A session has proven to be fun and fast paced as Uli and Norm share over half a century of experience in technology, leadership, as voracious readers, and avid personal consumers of new technology and knowledge.
Jim Wilt | Cloud Computing - Who Wins, Who Loses, How to Survive
Join Jim Wilt in an architectural discussion where best practices in Visual Studio development for conventional applications will need to change as solutions move to cloud platforms.
Sam Guckenheimer
Visual Studio has just had one of the most successful launches in the history of the product. Just off the road from the Visual Studio launch, Sam shares his insight into what makes Visual Studio a great product today, and how the leadership team looks at how it is getting better tomorrow.
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Birds-of-a-Feather
BOF01-DV | How Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life?
- Session Type: Birds-of-a-Feather
- Monday, June 7 | 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM |
- Track:
- Speaker(s): Michael Stiefel
- Level:
- Audience:
Cloud Computing is a reality and is changing the technology industry. Your professional life will be affected whether you choose a solution from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or others. How quickly will it change the economic paradigm of companies and their priorities? How much will you have to learn? What new opportunities will arise? How soon will it affect your job? Bring your experiences and questions to contribute to the discussion.
BOF11-DV | How Are YOU Using Windows Azure?
- Session Type: Birds-of-a-Feather
- Tuesday, June 8 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM |
- Track:
- Speaker(s): Matt Milner
- Level:
- Audience:
The goal of this session is to get people talking about how they are using, or plan to use, Windows Azure to build applications. What hurdles may be holding you back: mastering new complexity, the state of development tools and environment, business approval, or something else? Discuss with your peers issues around what data to host in the cloud, connecting Azure applications to on-premise applications, developing for Windows Azure, and managing Azure applications.
BOF23-IT | IT Going to the Cloud: Are We Crazy?
- Session Type: Birds-of-a-Feather
- Wednesday, June 9 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM |
- Track:
- Speaker(s): Dmitry Sotnikov
- Level:
- Audience:
Are more and more applications you manage getting replaced by online services? Which ones belong there and which will stay on premises forever? What are the benefits, risks, and lessons learned? Let's get together and share our thoughts and experiences.
BOF24-IT | Small Business: Shifting from Services to a Recurring Revenue Model
- Session Type: Birds-of-a-Feather
- Wednesday, June 9 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM |
- Track:
- Speaker(s): Russell Clements
- Level:
- Audience:
What do small network implementations look like in the cloud era? As opportunities for BPOS, hosted LOBs, hosted security, and off-site backup present themselves in the cloud era, how does this change your recommendation to small businesses? How will consultants continue to make money? Where are the opportunities now and where are they going? Is there enough recurring revenue in the cloud model to keep IT consulting businesses operating in the small business market? There are many possibilities for discussion. In my own practice we have begun the transition from primarily a services revenue generation model into building a recurring revenue stream from hosted applications. Will it work?
BOF51-ALL | How Secure Are Your Applications in the World of Hackers and Cloud Computing?
- Session Type: Birds-of-a-Feather
- Wednesday, June 9 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM |
- Track:
- Speaker(s): Patrick Hynds
- Level:
- Audience:
The days when applications ran on a single [server] are long gone. Now we deal with constant attempts by hackers to access system[s]. The increased usage of cloud computing adds a new dimension to this issue. Whether you are a developer or IT pro, bring your ideas and thoughts on how we can collectively keep the bad guys away. What are the best practices? How can developers and system administrators work together to achieve secure systems?
BOF54-ALL | Enabling the Ambient Cloud with the Windows Azure Platform AppFabric Service Bus
- Session Type: Birds-of-a-Feather
- Thursday, June 10 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM |
- Track:
- Speaker(s): Rick Garibay
- Level:
- Audience:
The key value of Service Bus may not be what you think it is! We build services that can be composed with other applications and services, regardless of platform or protocol. But to realize these benefits, applications and services must be consumable beyond the same walls that created the silos that service orientation strives to overcome. The service needs to be able to call the client, even through NATs and firewalls. To achieve the benefits of Software + Services, these walls must be brought down without disrupting the security and peace of mind that entire careers have been dedicated to preserving.
Come discuss and share your experiences of how Azure AppFabric Service Bus is changing the game. How are you using, or thinking about using, the Service Bus to transcend network boundaries and expand the reach of your services and applications to the Internet and beyond?
Hands-on Labs
COS01-HOL | Introduction to the Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus
- Session Type: Hands-on Lab
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Developer, Solutions Architect
This lab covers the basics of the Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus. It shows how to connect clients and services via SOAP and REST over the Service Bus using the AppFabric SDK. It explores the different bindings you can use, shows how to expose a MEX endpoint, and also how to handle message security and binary data.
COS02-HOL | Introduction to the Windows Azure platform AppFabric Access Control Service
- Session Type: Hands-on Lab
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Developer, Solutions Architect, Web Developer/Designer
The Windows Azure platform AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) is a service designed to secure REST Web services. ACS allows a REST Web services to integrate with both simple clients and enterprise identity technologies using a single code base.
COS03-HOL | Introduction to Windows Azure
- Session Type: Hands-on Lab
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Developer, Solutions Architect, Web Developer/Designer
In this lab, explore the basic elements of a Windows Azure service by creating a simple GuestBook application that demonstrates many features of the Windows Azure platform, including Web and worker roles, blob storage, table storage, and queues.
COS04-HOL | Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure
- Session Type: Hands-on Lab
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience: Developer, Solutions Architect, Web Developer/Designer
In this lab, explore the basic elements of a Windows Azure service by creating a simple GuestBook application that demonstrates many features of the Windows Azure platform, including Web and worker roles, blob storage, table storage, and queues.
TLC Demo Station
TLC-69 | Bing Maps
- Session Type: TLC Demo Station
- | | TLC Yellow
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
TLC-70 | Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)
- Session Type: TLC Demo Station
- | | TLC Yellow
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
TLC-71 | Microsoft Codename "Dallas"
- Session Type: TLC Demo Station
- | | TLC Yellow
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
TLC-72 | Microsoft Live@edu
- Session Type: TLC Demo Station
- | | TLC Yellow
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
TLC-73 | Microsoft SQL Azure
- Session Type: TLC Demo Station
- | | TLC Yellow
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
TLC-74 | Microsoft SQL Azure Data Sync
- Session Type: TLC Demo Station
- | | TLC Yellow
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
TLC-75 | Microsoft Cloud Services Operating System
- Session Type: TLC Demo Station
- | | TLC Yellow
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
TLC-76 | Connectivity and Federated Authorization for your Apps: On-premises to the Cloud
- Session Type: TLC Demo Station
- | | TLC Yellow
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
- Audience:
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