Can’t make it to Tech·Ed this year?

The Tech.Ed Live Meetings have now concluded! But it's not completely over as a number of the sessions have been recorded, and where possible we've made the powerpoint slides available for download. Just check the sessions below for links and further details.

The Tech·Ed Live Meetings are repeats of some of the more popular sessions taking place this year, modified to fit within the Live Meeting format. To participate, you will need the live meeting client (Free install available here) and to register for the meeting. Sessions last up to an hour and usually contain a question and answer segment.

 

 

Wednesday 9th September

TimeSession TitleSpeaker Name/s 
1.00pm – 2.00pm Top 10 Reasons for Deploying Windows 7 Kyle Rosenthal  
 

Join us as we delve into Windows 7 – and find out the top 10 reasons why you’ll want to get the newest version of Windows out of the box and ready to deploy!

Download the presentation slide for this session (606kb, requires Powerpoint to open)

Download the video for this session (6167kb, wmv)

  
2.30pm – 3.30pm Inside the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle, and how you can use it! Michael Howard  
 

In this session discuss the core elements of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle, and how you can use it to improve the security of your own software – using your existing tools.

Download the presentation slide for this session (1588kb, requires Powerpoint to open)

    
4.00pm – 5.00pm Building upon the Windows 7 User Experience to delight your customers Dave Glover and Joseph Cooney  
 

This session will reveal how you can use Windows platform features to make your applications shine. Find out what's new in WPF 4 for Multi Touch, The Windows API Code Pack for .NET and Windows 7 Compatibility Resources to ensure you are ready for Windows 7.

Download the presentation slide for this session (1500kb, requires Powerpoint to open)

  

Thursday 10th September

TimeSession TitleSpeaker Name/s 
11.00am – noon Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 Corey Hynes  
 

This session provides an overview of the new technologies, features and benefits of Windows Server 2008 R2 – covering new management technologies, virtualisation enhancements, scalability features, and enabling the remote workforce.

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1.00pm – 2.15pm Exchange 2010 Architecture Scott Schnoll  
 

Join this session to hear all about the overall architecture and key considerations for the scalability and performance of each server role of Exchange Server 2010.

Download the presentation slide for this session (928kb, requires Powerpoint to open)

Download the video for this session (9755kb, wmv)

    
2.30pm-3.30pm Windows 7 XP Compatibility mode, Virtual PC and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Ben Armstrong  
 

Learn about how Microsoft is enabling the use of virtual machines to solve desktop application compatibility issues in both enterprise and non-enterprise environments. You will also hear about how you can use MED-V and Virtual PC, as well as Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7.

Download the presentation slide for this session (940kb, requires Powerpoint to open)

Download the video for this session (78830kb, wmv)

  
4.00pm – 5.00pm Windows 7 After Hours: Everything Microsoft for you – not work Andrew Dugdell  
 

This interactive, 'roll up your sleeves' session uses Windows 7 to help you build an upright Arcade Machine, give your Xbox360 (or two or three) a new lease on life, show you how to get the most out of your music, pictures, home movies and video including Divx, plus much more – giving you an inhouse experience to make turning on the home computer after a big day at work.

No powertools necessary, WAF included.

Session includes:

  • Media Centre with EPG support for media centre
  • XBOX Extender with demo for TV tuners
  • Homegroup
  • Federated Search in the Consumer world
  • Legacy Device and software
  • Play on a variety of devices

Download the presentation slide for this session (20400kb, requires Powerpoint to open)

Download the video for this session (101790kb, wmv)

    

Friday 11th September

TimeSession TitleSpeaker Name/s 
10.00am-11.00am Going deeper in Silverlight 3 Jordan Knight  
 

We've seen the flashy parts of Silverlight 3, but what happens when you want to take these features and make real applications. What makes this stuff tick? This session will dive in to topics such as: - - Pixel Shaders: Create extra special effects in your apps including cool transitions - Using 3D to create great visuals (like 3D tag clouds, 3D image fields) - Creating great online/offline applications, using real network detection and Dependency Injection - Use the same techniques to create great testable code (and Blendable code too!) - Creating Behaviors, Actions and Triggers - Full overview of Out of Browser features, including OOB events including altering application behaviour when OOB The Entire session will be interspersed with MVVM and similar patterns.

This session will dive in to topics such as:

  • Producing Pixel Shaders – taking HLSL and making it available to Silverlight
  • Using 3D to create great visuals (like 3D tag clouds, 3D image fields etc)
  • Creating great online and offline applications, using real network detection and Dependency Injection, plus techniques to create great online and offline capable systems in Silverlight 3. You can use the same techniques to create great testable code (and Bendable code) too!
  • Creating behaviours, actions and triggers
  • Out of browser features – including OOB events (detaching, detached, new version of app available etc), altering application behaviours with OOB, including new components only in OOB mode so initial in-site download is not too large.

This entire session will be interspersed with MVVM and similar patterns.

Download the presentation slide for this session (610kb, requires Powerpoint to open)

Download the video for this session (225969kb, wmv)

    
2.00pm-3.00pm Deep-Dive into the new Parallels with .Net 4 and find out how to scale your code from one thread to 32 cores. Corneliu Tusnea  
 

Deep-Dive into the new Parallels with .Net 4.0 and find out how to scale your code from one thread to 32 cores. This session shows you how to design for the new parallels, how to develop for high concurrency and how to debug and performance test with new VS2010.

Download the presentation slide for this session (1059kb, requires Powerpoint to open)