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Windows Client and Server
The basis of any strong data centre now and for the future starts with the core operation system. The Windows Server family of products provides you with the best solution to build your IT infrastructure for any size organisation. From the Essential Server Solutions to Windows Server 2008 R2, in this track you'll be shown the solutions and set of technologies to ensure success.
In addition, this track covers the comprehensive set of management products and solutions enabled by the Microsoft System Center product suite as well as various Windows Management Technologies to help you gain back control of your environment. The sessions presented provide you with in-depth guidance and technical background in 'Managing the Datacenter' and 'Managing the Desktop' while also covering the management of heterogeneous IT environments.
Finally, the Windows Client and Server track has everything you need to know about adoption, deployment, management, and virtualisation of the Windows Desktop Environment, including a technical introduction into Windows 7 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. Also learn about new capabilities introduced with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These include how to enable mobile workers to connect quickly and securely to a corporate network over any Internet connection, without having to manually access the virtual private networking. How you can leverage ‘Direct Access’ to manage computers by updating Group Policy settings and distributing software updates any time a mobile computer has internet connectivity, even if the user is not logged on.
This track will show how to build an infrastructure that allow users to access a corporate network more quickly through a simplified set of connectivity and security policies. Using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you will learn how to implement and maintain a single set of rules for both remote clients and clients that are physically connected to the corporate network.
Get real-world guidance from our industry experts via sessions that span client-side development, readying applications for your OS rollout, deployment tools and technologies, virtualisation, and much more.
Track owners: Jeff Alexander, Philip Duff, Adam Hall and Deannah Templeton.
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Office System
The Office and SharePoint track provides IT professionals and developers with a deep technical arsenal for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Come and learn best practice from industry experts and gain advice on how to architect, design, deploy and implement world-class solutions built on the Office and SharePoint platform technologies. Be prepared to learn more about the next wave of innovations while also going deep into 2007 Office system products and technologies such as SharePoint Server 2007, Office Enterprise, Open XML File Formats, InfoPath 2007, SharePoint Designer, Project Server 2007, and SharePoint Online. As an IT professional, learn about Office server and client applications with sessions covering security, deployment, management, customisation, and administration. As a Developer, learn how to take your ASP.NET expertise to the fast-growing SharePoint ecosystem, how to craft the next generation of 'Office Business Applications' and about the latest techniques for creating applications involving Microsoft Office, composition, collaboration, software-plus-services, VOIP, Open XML, Silverlight, and more!
Track Owners: Alistair Speirs, Ian Palangio and Paul Dolley
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Unified Communications
Microsoft Unified Communications technologies use the power of software to deliver complete communications messaging, voice, and video across the applications and devices that people use every day. The Unified Communications track strengthens your knowledge of Microsoft Unified Communications platform and technologies, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Exchange Online. Explore how you can streamline your organisation's communications, build presence-aware applications, roll out an on-premise, hosted messaging and collaboration system, and much more.
Track Owners: Johann Kruse and Paul Dolley
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Web
The Web and User Experience track brings you all the latest information on cutting-edge Web technologies and provides you with the latest in developing great user experiences, from the Windows desktop to mobile devices to cross-browser and cross-platform on the Web. Get the latest information on Windows Presentation Foundation, XAML, Microsoft Expression Studio, and Microsoft Silverlight, as well as all the in-depth coverage of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows Live Platform, and Commerce Server. Whether you are interested in taking your ASP.NET development to the next level, or finding out how you can use your .NET development skills to build rich experiences that run in the Safari browser on the Mac, the Web and User Experience track is for you.
Track Owner: Michael Kordahi
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Developer Tools and Practices
Your knowledge of development languages and proficiency with the tools you use to create software are the core of your skill set. The Developer Tools, Languages, and Frameworks track is packed with deep technical training that covers the best of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, and the upcoming Visual Studio 2010. Get in-depth information on building mission-critical software using Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C#. Amplify your application development impact with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) best practices using the Visual Studio Team System. Acquire the skills that you need to make an immediate impact in your organisation while preparing for future versions of Visual Studio.
Track Owner: Dave Glover
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Architecture
The Architecture track offers sessions focused on the architecture of technology and architecture as a practice. Elements include the architectural process of translating business vision, intent, and strategy into effective technological change in the Enterprise; addressing the skills of creating, communicating, and improving the key tenets, principles, and models that describe the Enterprise's future state and enable its transformation, evolution, or migration.
Track Owner: Nigel Watson
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SQL and Business Intelligence (BI)
The Microsoft SQL Server data platform helps your organisation manage any data, any place at any time with the security, reliability and scalability that your mission-critical applications require. The SQL and BI track offers the knowledge you need to maximise your Microsoft SQL Server investments and gain the skills needed to seamlessly run a mission-critical environment. Gain insights into future SQL Server technology investments so you can rest assured knowing the bets you make today will continue to pay off in the future.
Now more than ever, your business needs a quick means of getting the right information to the right people so that they can make smarter, more informed decisions. Microsoft's Business Intelligence solutions enable you to do just this. The SQL and BI track also offers sessions covering how to integrate, analyse, and report on all of your corporate data easily using the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform, end-user tools, and analytics applications. Learn how to build customised, robust Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services) and the 2007 Office system (Microsoft Office Excel, Excel Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server technologies) and how to easily manage them.
Track Owner: Ron Dunn
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Security
Security continues to be a major concern for almost every company in business today, and technology professionals are always looking for ways to improve and bolster their security strategies and tactics. Microsoft brings unique capabilities together to deliver comprehensive, integrated solutions across IT security, identity, access, and management. The Security, Identity, and Access track provides guidance and technical detail on Microsoft Forefront products, identity-based access technologies, Windows security technologies and more!
Track Owner: Rocky Heckman
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SOA and Business Process
Organisations of all sizes use technology to automate, manage and improve business processes, and many are using SOA to create a more flexible set of IT assets. Designing, building, deploying, and managing these distributed applications can be difficult and complex. There is a range of capabilities, products, and technologies that you will need to understand in order to do your job effectively. The SOA and Business Processes track helps to explain these choices, give you concrete approaches to designing distributed applications particularly around loosely coupled service oriented architectures, and to show you the Microsoft products and technologies that you will use to develop and manage these systems. See products such as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009, .NET LOB Adapters and the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, in addition to some major new technologies that are in development and soon to be released.
With a multitude of new tools and technologies in the middle tier, Microsoft's broad platform offering has created tremendous opportunities for you as a Developer. Our experts show you products and technologies that provide successful strategies that take advantage of the platform and development tools.
Track owner: Graham Elliot
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Dynamics
The Microsoft Dynamics suite of products provides a comprehensive platform for developing and deploying applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies doing business domestically or in multiple countries. With these tools in hand, people in every key position in your organisation can contribute to the success of your company. Microsoft Dynamics enhances all lines of business in your organisation and delivers exceptional benefits. Come and hear how to deploy, enhance and leverage the base Dynamics products and integrate them with Line of Business Applications through the extensive services interfaces provided.
Track Owner: Catherine Eibner
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Mobility
With the increasingly mobile nature of computing today, the Windows Mobile track gives you the background that you need for selecting, developing for, and securely managing Windows Mobile phones. Did you know you can build for Windows Mobile with Microsoft Visual Studio skills you already have? Did you know that you could securely manage your mobile devices with Microsoft System Centre Mobile Device Manager? Find out about this and much more in the Windows Mobile track.
Track Owner: Rick Anderson
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Azure Service Platform
With the new Azure Services Platform, developers can take advantage of an Internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centres to build new applications in the cloud or extend existing applications quickly and easily, using a flexible and interoperable platform. The Azure Services Platform track explores Azure's cloud operating system and set of Developer services, including Windows Azure, SQL Services, .NET Services and Live Services. Sessions provide an overview of services currently in Community Technology Preview (CTP) and beta release. There will also be discussions on the future of the Azure Services Platform and the possibilities it provides for your business to reduce costs and accelerate innovation.
Track Owner: Greg Willis
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Virtualisation
With today's IT budget constraints, virtualisation enables you to maximise your current hardware investments and provide increased services. The Virtualisation track covers all of Virtualisation from the desktop to the data centre. Learn about Microsoft's virtualisation strategy, as well as our current solutions. These include Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, App-V, MED-V, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager, and Terminal Services (Remote Desktop Services). Sessions include real-world lessons from both Microsoft and industry experts. Come and learn all about the present and future of Virtualisation at Microsoft.
Track Owner: Amit Pawar
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NEW! Management
The Management track covers the comprehensive set of management products and solutions enabled by the Microsoft System Centre product suite as well as various Windows Management Technlogoies to help you gain back control of your environment. The sessions presented provide you with in-depth guidance and technical backgroun in "Managing the Datacentre" and "Managing the Desktop" while also covering the management of heterogenous IT environments.
Track Owner: Andrew McMurrayp>
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