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Tech·Ed Europe celebrates an incredible line up of tools and technologies and some awesome speakers. Have a look at what our track owners are saying:

  • FOR EVERYONE

    • Offered for the first time, the SQL Server 2008 R2 Demo Power Hour session will bring you a “battle of the demos.” Don’t miss the “Real World DBA” and “BI Master” battle it out to show you the best features SQL Server 2008 R2 will deliver – will it be the multi-server management tools for resource optimization, new BI visualizations of built-in spatial data, or the new Self-Service BI capabilities enabled by Microsoft Excel? You decide!

    • For the first time in Europe – get firsthand experience on the new release of Office 2010, Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010, you will be able to visit sessions covering new and improved features and solutions, and take a deep-dive into many hands-on labs covering multiple scenarios.

    • Learn how Exchange 2010 storage architecture is now ready to deliver 5+ Go mailboxes on low cost hard disks. Find out how to get the most of your hardware and how to size a future deployment on Exchange 2010, with Exchange 2010 performance and sizing.

    • What’s great about Windows Server this year? In one word – Launch! Come and see some of the best Microsoft and local speakers present that latest Windows Server 2008 R2 information, demo never before seen features and talk one on one with real experts from the teams building this product.

    • There are amazing speakers coming over to deliver our Web and internet applications track: Speakers like Bill Staples on Web Platform, Tim Heuer for Silverlight, and Shawn Wildermuth and Pete LePage with some amazing content you have see!

    • Friends have asked for it, so build it with Windows Mobile 6.5, then sell it Windows Marketplace for Mobile – come see how!

    • Check out the latest Developer technologies and get the best expert training and insight direct from Microsoft, as well as from top speakers including Roy Osherove, Kate Gregory, Brian Randall, and more!

    • From Visual Studio to Parallel Computing, we’ve got an amazing range of Developer tools and if interoperability is your bag, come along to see how C# and VB languages naturally interoperate with Python

  • IT PROFESSIONALS

    • Learn how Microsoft Forefront helps deliver business ready security through deep-dives and demos of new products and solutions

    • See all the news in the upcoming SQL Server 2008 R2 release – plus a live feature battle between BI and management functionality

    • You cannot miss the Architecture track with some range of the biggest names in the business - including Rafal Lukaweicki, David Chappell, and Udi Dahan to name a few. Get up close and Personal with Norm Judah and Ulrich Homann - CTO and Chief Architect, Microsoft Services.

    • This year Microsoft is launching more new management products than ever before - join us for the inside view of these new technologies from the product groups themselves.VIRTUALISATION that helps leverage existing investments

  • DEVELOPERS

    • Do you have large C++ applications that you would like to face-lift? Come and find out how

    • Come and see demos of Demos of Architecture Explorer, Layer Diagramming and UML support

    • In the world of unit testing – come and find out how to you write readable, maintainable, trustworthy tests

    • Come and see how you can create great .NET application using IronPython and IronRuby and get an early look at our dynamic languages tooling story.

Meet the track owners

  • Partner Solutions
    Andrew Driver
  • Security, Identity, & Access
    Gary Williams;
    Ronny Bjones
  • Unified Communications
    Damien Caro;
    David Alexander
  • Virtualization
    Lutz Seidemann
  • Web & Internet Applications
    Dirk Primbs