Windows Server 2012 brings the Microsoft experience of building and operating public clouds to the server operating system with a dynamic, highly available, and cost-effective platform for private clouds and on-premises datacenters. You can take your institution beyond virtualization as you enjoy the power of many servers with the simplicity of one. Windows Server 2012 helps with every app and any cloud, and it helps to enable the modern work style.

Whether you’re an educator or an administrator, don’t miss these energizing talks on innovation, technology in the classroom, and a look at education and the cloud, plus keynotes from Microsoft and the Center for Digital Education—all rolling up to a vision for student success: 
•   Learning Re-imagined—Microsoft’s Vision for Student Success
•   Innovative Schools: Using Technology to Build a Successful Framework
•   The Modern Classroom
•   Windows Re-imagined for Education
•   Device Selection and Integration Challenges: Solutions for Student Success
•   And many more!

With Windows Server 2012, it is now easier than ever for organizations to take advantage of the improvements in Hyper-V virtualization, storage functionality, and networking features.  In the datacenter, on the desktop, and now in the cloud, the Microsoft virtualization platform—led by Hyper-V and management tools—offers exceptional value for the money. 

Windows Server 2012 brings Microsoft’s experience of building and operating public clouds to the server operating system, making it a dynamic, highly available, and cost-effective platform for private clouds and on-premise datacenters.  Microsoft has also dramatically simplified Windows Server licensing to support this vision. The Windows Server editions have been consolidated and licensing standardized in order to simplify purchasing decisions and reduce management overhead.
 
View this session to learn about the new changes to Windows Server 2012 licensing.

With Microsoft Office 365, you can get your work done securely and communicate real-time from almost anywhere. Combining Office with Office 365 unlocks the full potential of Office 365 as the education solution for productivity, collaboration, and communication. It has your favorite Microsoft Office features online, which allows you to better prepare coursework, create sophisticated reports and presentations, and collaborate over the web with fellow teachers or students.

Windows 8 creates an experience that helps schools improve educational outcomes, brings learning to life for students, and builds 21st century skills. Join this session to see how Windows 8 is reimagined for learning and how you can use it within your institution to drive student success. You’ll not only hear how you can make learning personal but also see how Windows 8 enables unique learning experiences through education apps, new education scenarios, and new devices while helping build the skills necessary to succeed.

Join us to explore Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES), our most aggressive academic Volume License offering. EES can help you save money while maximizing your IT investments. You’ll learn about our Volume License program and discover how EES can help reduce your overall total cost of ownership. Find out more about the program and how to get your faculty, staff, and students involved.

Jan Uy, Territory Manager, Microsoft; Jason Wilmot, Licensing Executive, Microsoft

Join co-hosts Microsoft and the Center for Advanced Technologies (a public magnet program housed at Lakewood Senior High School, in Florida), and see demonstrations of student-developed solutions built on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform.

Mark Dunkel, Center for Advanced Technologies

The new, integrated high availability and disaster recovery technology with SQL Server 2012, known as AlwaysOn, can help your education institution reduce planned and unplanned downtime. Using this technology, your school’s or district’s IT department can build a solution without using a Storage Area Network (SAN).

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can make it easier for faculty, staff, and students to work together. Using SharePoint 2010, they can set up websites to share information, work on documents together from start to finish, unlock Office Web Apps to collaborate online, and create and publish reports to present important ideas and research in a more meaningful way. Learn more about the benefits of Microsoft SharePoint in education during this overview presentation and demonstration.

Join us to hear how GreenBridge Computing and Microsoft are teaming up to offer a more cost-effective way for students and teachers to gain access to the latest technology, even on limited budgets. With Windows MultiPoint Server, a single computer supports multiple users at the same time, each working independently using their own monitor, keyboard, and mouse―with familiar Windows operating system features. GreenBridge Computing offers a direct-connect solution to turn one PC into 10 workstations, which can help reduce hardware costs by up to 50% and maintenance expenses by up to 90%. Learn how GreenBridge Computing and Windows MultiPoint Server can help improve learning and give students better skills to compete in a global economy.

The next wave of SQL Server will help customers unlock new insights with pervasive data discovery across structured, unstructured, and cloud data sources. SQL Server is the leading platform for delivering Managed Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI), credible consistent data and large-scale data warehousing and analytics solutions. In this session you will hear about the benefits that can be realized through the BI platform.

Learn more about Office 365 for education, the Microsoft platform for delivering email, calendaring, communication, and collaboration services in the cloud. With Office 365, teachers can collaborate and share ideas more easily, students can get more creative in the classroom and beyond, and schools can create their own websites without writing code.

Interactive learning is the key to motivating and engaging students in today’s technologically advanced world. Discover how educators are changing the game in education with Kinect for Xbox 360 from Microsoft.

Interactive learning is the key to motivating and engaging students in today’s technologically advanced world. Discover how educators are addressing students with specific needs with Kinect for Xbox 360 from Microsoft.

Excited about the value that Office 365 could bring to your education institution? It’s a great time to consider how best to implement and adopt the web-conferencing, calendaring, and collaboration tools Office 365 offers. Join us to see what a successful rollout across campus could look like for your faculty and teaching staff, students, and other members of your education community.

Derek Seymour, Solutions Specialist, Microsoft; Gabe Loshbaugh, Solutions Specialist, Microsoft

This webcast is sponsored by Tech & Learning. Give your students, educators and staff the tools they need to communicate and work together across PC, phones and browsers from virtually anywhere. Discover how Henry County Schools uses the power of the cloud to help their educators and staff communicate more easily across 51 locations.

This webcast is sponsored by Campus Tech. Give your students, faculty and staff the tools they need to communicate and work together across PCs, phones and browsers from virtually anywhere. Discover how Georgia State University uses the power of the cloud to help their educators and staff communicate more easily.

This webcast is hosted by Center for Digital Education. Learn how Loudoun County Public Schools is using Kinect to get students engaged and inspired. They will share examples and learnings with their experiences of using Kinect in classroom activities and in physical education, and to support students with special needs. 

Inspire your students, and boost engagement in the classroom with intuitive tools from Microsoft that can help you improve education outcomes.

Ashanka Iddya, Solutions Sales Specialist

Discover how educators nationally are tapping into students' desire for interactive, fun, and challenging educational content. Explore how educators can use the Microsoft Kinect sensor to replace drill assignments, while tracking student progress and achievements.

Radu Burducea, Director, U.S. Education, Microsoft

Help protect anywhere, anytime access. Microsoft business-ready security can help schools protect their assets and infrastructure while addressing shrinking budgets and increased regulatory pressure.

Steve Scholz, Solutions Specialist, Microsoft

The next wave of SQL Server investments will help extend organizations beyond the database with a cloud-ready information platform that delivers mission critical confidence, breakthrough insight, and cloud on your terms.

System Center 2012 provides a unified management toolset for your applications and services – enabling productive infrastructure, predictable applications, and cloud computing on your terms. 

Further, Microsoft System Center 2012 leverages resources and workloads as hosted services in a public cloud, or manages an on-premises private cloud in whichever balance and configuration best services the needs of your educational institution.

The 2013 release of Office 365 for Education includes an enhanced feature set and a reimagined user interface. Join this webinar to learn more about what’s new in the next release of Office 365.

Everyone likes a pretty picture, but the key to successful BI projects is the culture change required to adopt a data-driven process.  Culture means everyone, and getting people to “do BI” has proven less successful than putting BI into what they already do.  This session will focus on the familiar tools that can be used to deploy secure, trusted, personalized data to users across your institution, tools that most already own.  Featuring many customer examples and lessons learned.

Education leaders worldwide want to get to 1:1 computing.  How do schools deliver a 1:1 experience for all students today, by leveraging the investments they have already made in hardware, all while providing a 21st century learning environment?  Now Microsoft and GreenBridge Computing have a bridge to get you there, powered by Windows MultiPoint Server 2012.

Converting from SQL Server Processor to Core licensing is a major shift, with significant potential implications for our customers. This presentation walks the audience through the changes to SQL Server 2012 licensing, and the tools and resource materials available to ensure customers are in compliance with these changes.

Microsoft IT Academy and Microsoft Certifications were developed to bridge the gap between education and the real-world by empowering students with the technology skills they’ll need for college and for a career in today’s technology centered job market.

You can confidently deliver IT as a service (ITaaS) for your education institution using technology you may already know and own. In this webcast you can learn more about the Microsoft approach to cloud computing and how it can benefit your school, college, university, or district.