TechDays 2012 Belgium – Sponsoring and partnerships at the technology conference for developers and IT Professionals

Exchange 2010 enable you to deploy large, fast, low-cost mailboxes while ensuring e-mail is secure, whether it is hosted on-premises, in the cloud, or both. To help you understand how Exchange 2010 can fit into your environment, come to this session and learn about key paradigm shifts in the areas of storage, high availability, disaster recovery, long-term data retention and information leakage protection that helped shape the design and development of Exchange 2010.

This session covers the management aspects of a database availability group (DAG), including managing and activating mailbox database copies, lagged copies, database copy distribution, DAG member maintenance and upgrading and replication troubleshooting and diagnostics.

A new version of Office brings many questions around deployment: Ribbon UI, file format changes, macros, application compatibility, etc are only some of the frequently mentioned issues. In this session we deal with frequently asked questions around Office 2010 deployment planning. We talk about important tools like Microsoft Assessment Planning Toolkit (MAP), Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT), Office Compatibility Code Inspector (OCCI), and Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) that efficiently answer your questions on critical questions around Office 2010 rollout.

In this session you will be provided with guidance on how you can provide secure remote access to your ocs/lync deployment. The edge server role will be highlighted, and you will get acquainted with the ports that need to be opened on your firewalls to provide secure IM and conferencing services.

After years of helping organizations around the world to deploy and implement SharePoint, Dan Holme has found that there are certain pain points that almost everyone encounters. Some are confusing concepts. Some are bad decisions driven by Microsoft’s UI and documentation. Some are due to unnecessarily complex terminology. And some because there are things that SharePoint should do, but can’t. In this session, Dan will share the most common and problematic scenarios, and their solutions, with the goal of saving you pain, time, and money. Think of this session as “Lessons Learned,” “Best Practices,” or “From the Field” on steroids. Whether you’re new to SharePoint or a seasoned veteran, in this grab-bag session there will be treasures for you! And you’ll leave with a practical, prescriptive design for your SharePoint logical architecture: Farms, Web apps, site collections, and content databases.

In many organizations, SharePoint is a disruptive technology: It’s no longer business-as-usual for users, for developers, for IT, or for the enterprise. SharePoint shines a spotlight on everything that’s good and bad about your information management policies, business processes, project management, change management, and IT service delivery. SharePoint MVP Dan Holme shares the lessons learned and common themes from thousands of IT professionals, managers, developers, end users and CIOs around the globe. This comprehensive discussion will highlight the business, cultural, and technical impact of SharePoint on an organization, and the steps you can take to plan for and implement SharePoint as a platform that will support a dynamic enterprise. You will take away a framework within which to understand and communicate the role of SharePoint in your organization, a punch list of issues to consider in your architecture and governance design, and an understanding of the technical, cultural and procedural components of a successful SharePoint implementation.