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Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions are open discussion topics of mutual interest to Tech•Ed Europe attendees. They give developers and IT professionals the opportunity to meet with people who have similar interests and challenges in an open-forum environment that promotes discussion and interaction.

The BOF selection process and sessions are managed and facilitated by Culminis and INETA. Final submissions are chosen to best align with content at Tech•Ed Europe with those sessions receiving the most votes being top contenders.

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Commerce Server 2009 Audience: Both Is it possible to build a performant Commerce Server site using SharePoint? Or is ASP.NET the only way to go? Will SharePoint 2010 change the equation? Entity Framework: Welcome to the data development dream life Audience: Developer EF really is a great technology which allows a real productivity gain for the developer. People who know me are no doubt aware that I love Entity Framework. In this session, we won't compare EF and the concurrence. This session is only about EF. We will exchange about the great EF features (including EF4 features) and our different experiences with EF. Then, we will try to identify which useful features we still miss with EF4. How far can you go with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)? Audience: IT Professional The current release of Microsoft Application Virtualization allows for integration with almost every Software Distribution System from manual distribution to enterprise deployments. It is very reasonable for Desktop Deployments for Enterprise Licensing customers and it is already included in current Terminal Services / Remote Desktop CALs. So, how far can you go with App-V? How many applications can you deploy, is it wise to virtualize core applications like Office and are there other hands-off applications? How does App-V really fit into your Windows 7 deployment, how does it work in a VDI environment? Does application virtualization really help in Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Services environments? How does it scale in enterprise scenarios? What are the pros and cons compared with other virtualization solutions, including other levels of virtualization and other application virtualization vendors? After hearing about all the advantages of Application Virtualization - discuss with us how far you really can go with it? Managing the Dynamic Datacenter Audience: IT Professional Microsoft's vision of a Dynamic Datacenter builds on virtualization and managability. From end-to-end monitoring to workload provisioning; how do you really achieve this with the MS solutions? Is it still a dream or already reality? Microsoft BitLocker drive Encryption as a component of corporate security. Audience: General Topic; IT Professional In corporation we should encrypt our data. We have a lot of possibilities, we could use expensive, cheap or free solutions. We could use Microsoft free solutions too. It's easy, working in stealth mode, could be a part of Active Directory infrastructure. In this presentation I'll explain what Microsoft BitLocker Drive Encryption is, how we could use in Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 environment, and of course what threats are connected with this solutions. Microsoft Exchange Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery - Are you prepared? Audience: IT Professional Microsoft Exchange Server is a business critical system for many organizations. Are you prepared to respond to the challenges for managing its reliability and availability? Do you know what steps you should take in order to protect your Exchange organization from failure, and what steps you should take when such thing happens? Are you using Network Load Balancing, LCR, CCR, SCR or SCC? What are your backup procedures and how about the domain controllers and communication devices availability? Do you know what it means when we say that we have implemented a high available messaging solution and we have prepared our disaster recovery strategy? And at the end, have you tested your solutions and strategies at all? In this BOF sessions you will share your experiences, discuss, and learn from others about high availability and disaster recovery in Microsoft Exchange Server. Multilingual SharePoint Audience: Both Many have found that there is a lot of custom code to making a multilingual site even if using Variations. Does SharePoint 2010 change the equation? What does real world experience show? Preparing for a Windows 7 Migration Audience: General Topic; IT Professional For some organizations, a Windows 7 migration is a test of the IT team's preparedness, flexibility for change and ability to mitigate risk. For others, the move to Windows 7 is the perfect time to put repeatable processes in place to help the organization stop dealing with high cost application interoperability and compatibility issues. Let's discuss steps you can take now to prepare for your Windows 7 migration, the role of application virtualization in a Windows 7 rollout and solving obstacles that may slow down a Windows 7 migration.