Microsoft - Ready for a New Day

Date:	15 December 2006 (Friday)
Time:	Registration and Partner Showcase: 9:00am - 10:00am Launch Keynote: 10:00am - 11:30am Breakout Sessions: 12:00nn - 6:00pm
Venue:	Hall 7, 7/F, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong
The presentation materials can be downloaded from below. Simply click on the or icons to download the files. Introducing XPS file format Now you can create XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents quickly and easily in a paginated, fixed-layout format in Microsoft Windows Vista™. You’ll get a view of each page as it would be printed so your on-screen content becomes electronic paper. The XPS Document Viewer is also available for Windows^® XP and Windows Server™ 2003 as well as Windows Vista so you'll be able to open and read XPS Documents without using the original authoring application. It's so simple to use and even simpler to get. To download the XPS Document Viewer, please click here. The 2007 Microsoft^® Office system applications create XPS Documents from within the application but you can also easily create XPS Documents using applications you currently use via the Microsoft XPS Document Writer.

9:00 - 10:00

Registration / Partner Showcase

10:00 - 11:30

Launch Keynote - Ready for a New Day

11:30 - 12:00

Break

Business Track

Deployment Track

Operational Efficiency Track

Security Track

Productivity Track

Developing Solutions Track

(Target Audience: Business Decision Makers)

(Target Audience: IT Professionals)

(Target Audience: Developers)

12:00 - 12:45

Unlock business value by providing comprehensive access to enterprise via Microsoft Communication and Collaboration solutions

Exchange Deployment

Windows Vista Operational Efficiency

Protecting Your Company’s Intellectual Property

How to use search effectively

2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista for the Developer

(English)

(Cantonese)

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch Time

14:15 - 15:00

How to reduce the pain of Content Management Lifecycle?

SharePoint Deployment

Partner session:

Content, Compliance and Archive Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007

by EMC

Protection of Desktops from Malicious Threats

Data Visualisation with Microsoft Office Visio 2007

Building Differentiated User Experiences with Windows Vista

(English)

(Cantonese)

15:00 - 15:15

Break

15:15 - 16:00

Transform information into real business impact

Optimizing Windows Vista & 2007 Microsoft Office system Deployment - Part 1

Exchange Operational Efficiency / Security

Records Management

IT Governance with Project Portfolio Management

Building key business applications on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform

(English)

(Cantonese)

(English)

(Cantonese)

16:00 - 16:15

Break

16:15 - 17:00

Reduce security risks and simplify desktop and server deployment and management

Partner session:

The combined power of Windows Vista and Intel's latest platforms

by Intel

Operational Efficiency with 2007 Microsoft Office system

Partner session:

Building Resilient Microsoft Environments with Hitachi

by Hitachi

Partner Session:

HP ProLiant BladeSystem

Delivering an Adaptive Infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange Server

by HP

Exchange Server 2007 Migration

Please note this is an Operational Efficiency session.

(English)

(Cantonese)

(English)

(Cantonese)

17:00 - 17:15

Break

17:15 - 18:00

Optimizing Windows Vista & 2007 Microsoft Office system Deployment - Part 2

SharePoint Manageability

Secure Mobile Productivity

Unified Communication – Real-time collaboration: The Power of "Unified"

Connecting and Extending 2007 Microsoft Office system Client Applications

(Cantonese)

18:00

End

The "Ready for a New Day" competition was successfully held at the launch event and has gathered overwhelming response. We have prepared a selection of interactive demos and videos to show how these new product features can get you ready for a new day. Click here to view the demo.