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Date:
August 25, 2007 (Saturday)
Venue:
Microsoft Hong Kong Limited - Seminar Room
2305-2309, 23/F Three Pacific Place,
1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong
Language:
English and Cantonese
Date:
August 28, 2007 (Tuesday)
Venue:
4/F, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong (Opening Keynote: Room 301, 3/F)
Language:
English and Cantonese
Date:
August 29, 2007 (Wednesday)
Venue:
4/F, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Language:
English and Cantonese
Date:
August 30, 2007 (Thursday)
Venue:
4/F, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Language:
English and Cantonese
Date:
August 31, 2007
Venue:
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
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SQL Server 2005 added a lot of new features and different ways of coding to the SQL Server Developer mix. Almost two years after its release, most SQL Server programmers know how to code with the features but might be unclear of when to use them and how to optimize them. This session attempts to present best practices and optimization for all SQL Server developer features along with their real-world usage. In addition, with each topic we'll cover the upcoming changes in SQL Server 2008 that could affect the way you write SQL Server applications in the future.
Microsoft provides a wide range of technologies on web application development. This powerful platform is easy to use, reliable and secure while providing tool support, scalability and administrative functions. In this event we'll walk you through the basic steps in creating ASP.NET 2.0 applications and techniques in enriching your website with ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight.
Successful companies recognize that their greatest asset is their people. Join us for this keynote as we discuss challenges facing an increasingly important set of people in organizations today - the IT professionals and development teams who are on point to ensure the business stays up and running and is positioned for success every day. We will outline the promises Microsoft is making to deliver on its long-term vision of enabling IT professionals and development teams to drive business impact and be successful in the varying roles they play across the IT lifecycle. We will showCase the latest technologies, including advances with Window Vista and 2007 Office system that we are delivering to enable the People-Ready Business.
Are you the kind of security person who enables a setting just because it's there? Do your users constantly seek ways to bypass all your fine-tuned security, just so they can do their jobs? Every security decision your organization makes ought to consider the security-usability (or even the security-usability-cost) tradeoff. While perfect security seems an admirable goal, in reality we must remember that usability often will trump our strongest desires. If people can't get work done, they'll either circumvent the security (without understanding they just created new attack vectors) or your company will simply lose out to your competitors. Steve Riley discusses several examples of real-world tradeoffs and helps you learn how to navigate the tradeoff in your own organization.
Exchange Server 2007 has major changes like x64 support, changes to JET, and LCR and CCR. These changes mean new design considerations from a server, IO, and deployment standpoint. The focus of this session is to share EMC's experiences and best practices from an IO standpoint (and experiences with Jetstress 2007, LoadGen), the usage of new lower-cost storage technologies (iSCSI, and the right places for ATA technology). We walk through our Exchange Solution Reviewed Program Exchange 2007 configurations. Local and remote availability design using LCR, CCR, fabric-based, and array-based options for customers best practices and experiences are shared. This session covers technologies and techniques for customers with hundreds to thousands of mailboxes.
Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) has the unique responsibility of managing Microsoft enterprise IT environment. From many campuses throughout the world, to the tens of thousands of employee and contracted remote access users, Microsoft IT requires a technology that is secure, improve productive and save operation. This session will discuss Microsoft IT thinking process and what business values can VISTA bring to Microsoft internal users.
Windows Mobile devices are becoming increasingly attractive to organizations due to their portability and capability. Security, however, is the number one consideration for planning any deployment. This session provides guidance on how to overcome the top ten security considerations, objections, and issues typically encountered by enterprise customers. Learn about best practices, policies, and technical guidance on how to ensure you can deploy Windows Mobile but help your Security team sleep at night.
The Network Policy Server-formerly known as Internet Authentication Services (IAS)-is a core component of a number of networking and security solutions. These include secure wireless, VPN, and Network Access Protection. This session covers NPS fundamentals such as the product architecture, policy management, deployment planning, and on-going operations. Live demonstrations are used extensively to illustrate key concepts and advanced troubleshooting.
This presentation provides an overview of the best practices for design and implementation of Terabyte-plus Data Warehouse solutions using Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It covers key considerations in the use of the SQL Relational Database and SQL Server Integration Services for very large data warehouse solutions. The presentation assumes some familiarity with the concepts of partitioning and the Integration Services pipeline. We cover topics such as the physical design and indexing of Fact and Dimension tables, how to implement high-performance data loads into a SQL Data Warehouse, how to perform large scale dimension management and lookup operations in the ETL.
Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational tables, XML documents, and in-memory objects. Each of these domains can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities, and much of the complexity in today's applications is the result of these mis-matches. Luca Bolognese, LINQ Lead Program Manager, explains how Visual Studio 2008 aims to unify the programming models through LINQ capabilities in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic, a strongly typed data access framework, and an innovative Application Programming Interface (API) for manipulating and querying XML.
Learn about the Record Management capabilities included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Topics include creating content types for categorizing documents, configuring a central records repository, setting up records management policies, and available options for automation.
In this session we present best practice results gleaned from engaging with over 150 companies. The focus is on the IT processes and the associated technologies that have been accelerants in helping companies save costs and achieving increased service levels. The session also discusses the key technology levers that had the greatest impact in the companies. This is a good overview session to enable the IT Manager to focus on the specific technologies that have the most value in optimizing a company's IT environments.
This session covers best practices for building Microsoft Office InfoPath form solutions. This includes tips and tricks for designing effective and easy-to-use forms that scale well and work in both the InfoPath client and Web browser. This session also covers best practices for deploying and managing forms solutions.
Server Core is a new minimal installation option included in Windows Server codename "Longhorn". A Server Core installation provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles Active Directory (AD), Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), WINS, Media Services, Print and File, reducing the servicing and management requirements and the attack surface for those server roles. In this session, we discuss the reasons we are developing Server Core, the architecture of Server Core, as well as installation, configuration, and administration of Server Core.
This session provides a technical overview of System Center Operations Manager. The session is intended for attendees who are currently Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) customers and for those considering System Center Operations Manager deployments.
SQL Server service pack 2 introduces a number of functional improvements and is required to work with the new Windows Vista operating system. The enhancements in SP2 include compatibility with Office 2007 including the Office 2007 add-ins for data mining. This session is meant to get you up to speed quickly when working with SQL Server on the new operating system. I'll also highlight the interesting performance and maintainability improvements in the latest service pack, and demonstrate how to apply these in existing systems.
Learn how to use Microsoft CRM 3.0 to build a perfectly molded solutions for your business. This session offers a detailed walkthrough and practical application of features including SDK, programming model, entity features, import, export and publication of customizations, and callout model. It also spotlights the .NET assembly integration in workflow. The session focuses on how Microsoft CRM 3.0 can not only be used for marketing, sales, and service, but how custom entities can serve as a basis for a comprehensive application platform.
In this session, we talk about real implementations of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) together, and discuss the ways you can integrate these two technologies before the "Orcas" timeline. We start with simple integration and then move on to more seamless integration with Custom ServiceHosts and custom behaviors helping to manage the integration.
Microsoft Forefront Client Security is a new security product that Microsoft is releasing to help protect business desktops, laptops, and servers from emerging threats such as spyware and rootkits, as well as viruses and other traditional attacks. This session gives you the ability to get hands-on with the new product. Learn how to deploy a client side policy, get signature updates, vew alerts, and run reports.
We will discuss why we select Microsoft Exchange as our first SaaS (Software as a Service) product, and share our experience and critical success factors in SaaS model. We will share with you the values we create to our customers in this model, and our "mobility for all" solution as an enabler for mobile workforce.
By introducing data protection best practices, you will know how to secure the entire data lifecycle. Hitachi Data Protection Suite, using Common Technology Engine, integrates backup & restore, snapshot, quick recovery, email archiving, data migration and host based remote site data replication. It is the Microsoft tested data protection solution on which the Microsoft System Architecture (MSA) reference configurations is based. It has broad range of application integration such as Microsoft Exchange 2007, SQL 2005, SharePoint, AD with x32 and x64 support. Under a unified GUI, there is an easy-to-use reporting tools which provide more insight on historical report (e.g. backup summary, all jobs summary) and forecasting report (e.g. forecast on media usage). Those enable you to achieve the goal of high-performance high-availability data protection.
In the session, Symantec will demonstrate how to protect against risks to enterprise messaging and collaboration systems and helps reduce the cost of data retention and electronic discovery using a solution suite that helps protect against data leakage, spam, viruses, and other information risks and provides centralized archiving, audit, and discovery for enterprise information.
In this session Brocade will discuss Microsoft file virtualization technologies including DFS and provide examples of how these technologies can be enhanced and extended to provide seamless and highly available data migration, storage optimization, file lifecycle management and disaster recovery. The session will include a demonstration of Brocade's capability in this key technology area.
With technologies enhanced and built into Citrix product family, our application delivery platform easily enables to deliver applications to users with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Not only Citrix help with traditional client/server applications, but also, we can help with any web-based applications as well as accelerating applications to branch users.
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (VSTEDP) provides a better way for database professionals to work with databases. In this lab, start work on adding the necessary features to the Northwind Traders database so that online auctions can be offered.
Business Intelligence (BI) is all about business users making better and faster decisions based on the correct data. Getting accurate data into users' hands is crucial to any successful BI application. To that end, this session shows how to use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and Microsoft Office Excel 2007 to build an enterprise-level data analysis solution. We show you how to develop server-side business rules and unified views of business data for one version of the truth, while at the same time providing end users with simple, self-service flexibility in Excel to make accurate decisions quickly.
This session provides an overview of Office Communications Server (OCS) capabilities, architecture, and topologies. This includes an overview of all infrastructure investments in the OCS 2007 server release, spanning Presence, Conferencing, Voice, and Manageability. Next, it drills into the architectural building blocks of OCS, providing a comprehensive overview. Finally, it describes the typical topologies for OCS in different classes of customer environments, including aspects of scale, external access, and geographical distribution.
This session provides a technical overview of System Center Operations Manager. The session is intended for attendees who are currently Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) customers and for those considering System Center Operations Manager deployments.
Learn how to use new Group Policy settings in Windows Vista to help achieve a lower cost of ownership and higher security bar-for example by enabling the IT department to control which Plug and Play devices can be installed on managed machines and how to prevent installation of undesirable devices.
Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008 includes new features and enhancements that are focused around the fundamentals: improved security, reliability, performance, reduced operational complexity, and increased deployment flexibility. This session presents the Windows Server 2008 features in Active Directory.
When system availability is impacted it can be costly. Could it have been avoided? It depends on what caused your system to be unavailable. Was it technology? Probably not! Most system downtime is caused by human error. OK, definitely NOT all - and yes, hardware fails! However, the most likely hardware failures are easily minimized through some form of relatively standard redundancy, i.e., RAID. But what happens when users incorrectly modify the wrong data, or even worse, when someone with higher privileges drops a table? While it seems like it would be easy to just 'restore that table', the problem(s) are really larger than that. As a result, appropriate preventative features should be used and then recovery must begin. How can you recover quickly and with the smallest impact to production? Come to this session to find out! Features discussed include: Online Index Operations, Partial Database Availability, Online Piecemeal Restore and for prevention/monitoring - Data Definition Language (DDL) Triggers, Event notifications, and Agent Alerts. While many of these topics can be discussed when hardware fails, which you will see first-hand in this session when some hardware fails during the demos, this session focuses more on online operations and isolating objects for better availability and recovery. If you think that your system is safe from human error then you definitely need to be here!
Silverlight is Microsoft's solution for delivering rich, cross-platform interactive experiences for the Web and beyond. Silverlight enables the creation of rich, visually stunning, and interactive content and applications that run on multiple browsers and operating systems. In this session, learn the fundamentals of building applications using Silverlight including a discussion of the tools and programming models used for development.
This lab contains a series of six hands-on exercises which demonstrate the key features of Windows PowerShell version 1.0. Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's new shell environment and scripting language. This lab is intended to give you a relatively quick, broad overview of Windows PowerShell features. The exercises do not cover a comprehensive list of low-level language features and syntax such as you'd find in a Reference Guide document; however these exercises cover more detail than you'd find in a typical Quick Start document. After this lab, you will have a solid grasp of exactly what Windows PowerShell is and how you can use PowerShell to simplify a wide range of IT administration and software development tasks.
This session discuss the SQL Server solutions based on 64-bit platform, advantages, and weakness. It also compare the differences of ia64 and x64 family and share some best practices in 64-bit solutions with the audience.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a Web application. During this session, we cover how this archtecture allows integration with other business applications using simplified Webforms and Iframes. This session is geared to all levels of users and shows the power a Web-based architecture can offer using the basic customization features of Microsoft CRM. We show how to integrate a Project Site, a SharePoint Site, and a Great Plains site.
Learn best practices of data protection for your organization. This session covers the pros and cons of Windows SharePoint Services Backup/Restore, SQL-only backup/restore, SQL log-shipping, and the VSS writer. Also, learn how to take advantage of content recovery features, including the recycle bin, versioning, events, and fine-grained content migration.
Relax for a moment. Let your mind wander to thoughts of your corporate network-with its myriad authentication schemes, its haphazard collection of client computers in various states of (non)conformance, its proliferation of access methods, its data centers with too many ways in and out. Feel like you want to just burn it all down and start over? Well, perhaps you should-and when you do, you can implement something that's simpler, more secure, well managed, and less expensive. Over the years, Steve Riley has hinted at this idea, advocating the demise of the traditional corporate network, with its no longer useful distinction between "inside" and "outside."Instead, organizations should move toward using the Internet as their infrastructure, where all clients and a physically and electronically fortified data center live "live on the 'net." The question, then, is how to build this data center? Effective security and management are absolutely essential to realize this vision. In this session Steve shows how combining the Microsoft ForeFront family of security products with the System Center family of management solutions provides the necessary foundation for building your data center of the future-today. Don't delay, because your business competitors are already doing it!
Be one of the first to take a look at all the changes coming in the new, redesigned Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 and Windows Web Server 2008. This session focuses on new troubleshooting features, a breakdown of architecture and security improvements and the new IIS 7 configuration system. We also walk through demos showcasing IIS delegation administration control to non-administrators and new diagnostics tools. Also featured are the entirely new User Interface (UI) and configuration system.
With the introduction of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced Volume Activation 2.0 to protect the software from security issues introduced by piracy attempts, enable protection and management of customer's volume keys, and differentiate genuine installations. This session is for IT Professionals who want best practices and lessons learned on how to plan and manage deployment of Windows Volume Activation 2.0. The content for this session is based on best practices and feedback from some of our key customers.
One of the new features of BizTalk Server R2 is the ability to use BAM to instrument your whole application from end-to-end using the new BAM interceptors. The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) interceptors allow you to declaratively apply real-time tracking to your WCF services and WF workflows, and have that data be available through the BAM infrastructure. In this session, see how these new interceptors work and how BAM can be used to monitor you whole connected system.
This lab shows you one of the first typical questions from designers: How do you create a custom looking button in Windows Presentation Foundation? Gain experience in how to create a great looking custom button with Expression Blend which will help you communicate with professional designers when demoing Expression Blend. Get an introduction to the amazing world of vector based drawing creating a gorgeous icon in Expression Design. You and designers will discover that even one of the simplest of the controls in WPF like the button can become such a fun and powerful interactive design experience.
With the introduction of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista changes have been made with Group Policy that not only provides an extensible and standards based architecture but also a stack of new policies and along with that some issues that you need to know about in migrating to the new Windows versions. Theres also been some fantastic changes in the management tools that will save you time and effort! Come to this session and understand how the new policy changes affect you in your deployments.
Think Unified Messaging is hard to deploy? Think again! This session provides an overview of the technical components of Microsoft Exchange 2007 UM, explains how UM connects to PBX and IP PBX equipment, and demonstrates configurations of UM deployments-all in one session!
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services includes a complete re-architecture of the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) engine from Microsoft SQL Server 2000. This is the first of two independent presentations that focus on the performance and scalability aspects of the Analysis Services architecture. These presentations cover each aspect of cube design in detail and provide specific guidance on how to design for optimal performance. This presentation covers cube design and storage while the second presentation covers MDX and calculations. In this presentation, we will discuss cube modeling (emphasizing the importance of attribute relationships), partitioning strategies, aggregation management and cube processing. For each of these, we will explain the server architecture and important design principles, and provide best practices for performance and scalability. These principles and practices should be a necessary foundation for any organization embarking on a large-scale business intelligence project based on Analysis Services 2005.
Come and learn how to build Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications with the help of the new WPF designer in Visual Studio 2008. This session focuses on the construction of a real-world application demonstrating how to get the best out of the designer's capabilities. Learn the basics of building WPF applications in the Visual Studio 2008 WPF designer; have a clear view on when you'll want to work in XAML Code and on the Visual Studio design surface to get your WPF application built; and see how to you can use Microsoft Expression Blend in conjunction with Visual Studio 2008 WPF designer.
Join us for a high energy session consisting entirely of demos designed to inspire and delight. Experience powerful business and personal applications demonstrating the power of the Windows Mobile platform. Additional surprises for the audience await. Don't be late or you'll risk missing the Extravaganza!
Learn how to use Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and Virtual Machine Manager to manage and operate your Virtual Server environment. In this session we look at how to configure the Virtual Server management pack to identify candidate servers to act as hosts and guests for a server consolidation scenario. We then use MOM to manage the virtual server environment while leveraging Virtual Machine Manager to automate operations. Information discussed is based on a current customer deployment.
What do architects need to know about security? As the key designers of the system they need to understand several basic principles of application design which can insure that the system can be secured through proper implementation and operation. In this discussion we examine several principles of secure system and consider some insecure practices that leave a system vulnerable.
You are responsible in your organization for the installation and configuration of Windows Server 2008. You are required to install and configure each Windows Server 2008 server to provide a variety of roles (such as Print and DHCP) and features (such as Windows Server Backup) without the creation of special tools or scripts. You need to have the ability to quickly inspect the configuration of your servers, and when troubleshooting a service failure, take appropriate corrective actions without the creation of special tools or scripts.
Looking for reliable local store you can easily deploy embed within your application? Wanting to know what programming options are available today, and what's coming? In this session, we demo the different data access models including DataSet, ResultSet, TableDirect and ADO.NET V3 Entities. We also discuss and demo the different deployment options available for SQL Server Compact Edition.
Ever wondered how a large enterprise plans and implements design and architecture of its next generation of messaging system? Join us in this session where engineers from the Microsoft IT messaging team uncover the details on how Exchange 2007 infrastructure was introduced and fully deployed in a 120,000+ mailbox production environment. Topics include: messaging topology design, hardware planning for various Exchange server roles, Client Access Server and Mobility scenarios, Transport architecture, Mailbox server and storage designs, backup, restore, and high availability strategies.
Long gone are the days when you knew your data was safe because it resided only in your data center. The explosive proliferation of laptops, notebooks, handheld computers, smartphones, removable drives, and Internet file storage demands that we rethink how we protect information. Because it's the information the bad guys are after, and because the information flows so freely from device to device, our obligation is to protect the information. People want to work wherever they can find a computer and an Internet connection. How can you do this safely? Steve Riley considers strategies and explore technologies to help you solve a number of thorny problems: how to classify mobile data, how to keep track of where it is, and how to control its movement. We explore the new Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs, technical guidance and deployment tools that help you plan and implement EFS and BitLocker throughout your enterprise, with lower cost and extended centralized management and control. One question we will ponder: maybe it's time to do away with the locked-down desktop?
Join us for this comprehensive look at using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to build robust BI portals and dashboards. Discover Excel Services, a new feature of SharePoint Server 2007, to author and publish "live" Excel workbooks and view them thin on the Web. See how you can take advantage of all the new visualizations in Excel 2007 while connected to Analysis Services, and how to incorporate Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager and ProClarity Analytic views to round out your Business Intelligence solution.
Introduced with Windows 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 contains the File Server Resource Manager which opens up file management capabilities previously unheard of with Windows. Real-time file screening to limit types of content written to file servers, comprehensive quota capabilities for groups of users at disk and folder levels and a comprehensive reporting suite make Windows Server 2008 the go-to platform. This session looks at what the File Server Resource Manager features are in addition to other file related services in Windows Server 2008, including Single Instance Storage and Windows Search, and best practices to implement in environments.
Through the releases of Visual Studio, the Visual C# team has focused on making the IDE more "code-focused" than ever before. Join Karen Liu, C# IDE Program Manager, in building an E2E application using C# 3.0 and LINQ that leverages a number of tips and tricks in the IDE to make the Visual C# developer more efficient and productive when trying to understand and write code. This presentation is highly demo-focused-learn innovative tips and tricks, from leveraging existing IDE features in Visual Studio that will make you more productive today to leveraging new IDE support for understanding how to work with C# 3.0 and LINQ.
Reporting Services is a key component in providing a complete data management platform for SQL Server users. Learn how to create different types of reports using Reporting Services and the SQL Server Business Intelligence Workbench. This lab also covers managing security settings for these reports and the different deployment models available. This lab requires basic working experience with the SQL Server Business Intelligence Studio and basic knowledge of SQL Server security features.
Microsoft SoftGrid adds a powerful new dimension to application management through virtualization. However, questions still remain on how Microsoft Systems Management Server and Microsoft SoftGrid compliment each other. This session covers the powerful features of these two industry leading technologies when combined to help manage the Enterprise.
See how to take your Web application's user experience to the next level by combining your ASP.NET AJAX responsiveness with the rich interactive user experience features of Silverlight. Combining dynamic server interactions with dynamic user interactions can only be an amazing all-around experience for the users of your Web applications.
Based on tight integration to Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services offers one of the most flexible report authoring experiences available in the market today. In this session, learn how to leverage all the advanced features available for designing reports supporting multiple data sources, report parameterization and report interactivity as well as how to leverage the report expression language to its fullest. In addition to demonstrating the functionalities available with SQL Server 2005 today, the session also includes a preview of some of the new report engine capabilities that will be available with the next release of Microsoft SQL Server.
Introduced with Windows 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 contains the File Server Resource Manager which opens up file management capabilities previously unheard of with Windows. Real-time file screening to limit types of content written to file servers, comprehensive quota capabilities for groups of users at disk and folder levels and a comprehensive reporting suite make Windows Server 2008 the go-to platform. This session looks at what the File Server Resource Manager features are in addition to other file related services in Windows Server 2008, including Single Instance Storage and Windows Search, and best practices to implement in environments.
Historically, Exchange routing was designed to enable mail delivery over early point-to-point networks using discrete next-hop solutions and had evolved little to take advantage of the advancements in network technologies. Learn how mail routing works in the Exchange Server 2007 environment using IP Networks and Active Directory Site Topologies. Discover how Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange 200x mailflow Interop works. Hear about recommended topology and deployment best practices.
Are you an Architect? Would you like to be one? What does it mean to be a Software Architect and how does this job role differ from that of a developer? Many software developers are asking questions like these and in this session we will be providing an introduction to software architecture with a discussion of the role of the architect and the essential skills that are required to successfully design a system that can be built.
In this lab, learn how to use new Group Policy features and settings introduced in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. First, configure multiple local group policy objects on a Windows Vista client computer, then investigate the format of ADMX and ADML files. Next, create a group policy central store. Finally, configure some of the new settings that can be use to manage Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
This session provides a high-level overview of how different customers are approaching virtualization and basic requirements for embracing this popular technology. We briefly touch upon how to evaluate good candidates for virtualization and walk through some solution decision makers. We also cover some of the advancements in the virtualization space from Microsoft and management capabilities. The key vision for virtualization is to enable self-managing dynamic systems; we also walk down this lane and see how this technology can enable dynamic systems initiatives in your organization.
The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment (WVHA) is a centralized and agent-less tool designed specifically to help partners and business customers assess their PCs' Windows Vista Hardware network-wide around hardware and device compatibility. WVHA provides readiness summary report and detailed Excel spreadsheet for PC-by-PC analysis and evaluation. Upgrade recommendations are provided to assist customers during the pre-sales/evaluation phase. In this session, learn how to use WVHA and many of its features and functionalities in desktop OS upgrade projects. We also present a technical drill-down of the WVHA architecture and its design components including multi-threaded inventory model and database-driven XML document generation and reporting.
Imagine an application that adjusts its behaviour as it learns about the needs and characteristics of its users: for instance, a user interface that knows what the user is most likely to do, or select next. Or, perhaps, a Web store that can predict a shipment delivery failure even before the order has been placed, and warns the user. How about software that knows it is being abused and is on the brink of being hopelessly attacked by a criminal? In these three cases, and many others, the traditional approach would require you to think of all the circumstances in advance, and to encode them as some form of logic. Naturally, that is an impossible task to complete. Data Mining offers us a glimpse of a world to come: your application will self-trace its past behaviour in order to discover these patterns for you. Your code, in turn, will use the ever-evolving data mining model to perform predictions based on which way the application would react. While the world of academia has been thinking of similar approaches, notably in the Artificial Intelligence research, it has only recently become an everyday possibility to harness the power of Data Mining to a similar extent. Come to this session if you would like to see where the future is headed. This session introduces the key concepts of data mining and its algorithms for the benefit of those not yet familiar with the field, but the bulk of the presentation concentrates on the as yet unexplored world of building more intelligent applications.
Exchange 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) introduce many features that can help you ensure your electronic information complies with Corporate, Legal and Regulatory requirements. What are these features? Where do they fit together? How do information workers access them? How can you integrate them into your Microsoft-centric communications environment? In this session we answer these questions through a detailed look at the architecture of the various features and demonstrations that show how Exchange and SharePoint can work together to support your information life cycle, regulatory and records management needs.
SQL Server 2005 introduces a host of new security features and capabilities, and continues to offer a safe and secure place to store your data. How you deploy and operate your installation plays a key role in how secure your data will ultimately be. This session discusses the primary administrative and operational considerations for installing and running a SQL Server 2005 installation in a secure manner, addressing the considerations you will encounter over the lifecycle of an installation in topics such as surface area reduction, lockdown, separation of duties, and patching.
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server includes multiple scan engines from industry-leading security firms integrated in a single solution to help businesses protect their Exchange messaging environments from viruses, worms, and spam. Changes in the deployment and design of Exchange 2007 have altered how anti-virus scanning is handled for e-mail. Forefront Security for Exchange Server takes full advantage of these changes, which combined with its multiple scan engine detection, allows Exchange customers to achieve more efficient and effective security for their e-mail servers. This session covers how customers can fine tune scanning of transport and mail store servers to meet the mail performance and protection needs of their environment.
In this session, we talk about real implementations of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) together, and discuss the ways you can integrate these two technologies before the "Orcas" timeline. We start with simple integration and then move on to more seamless integration with Custom ServiceHosts and custom behaviors helping to manage the integration.
The goal of this lab is to provide an understanding of when to use one of the more advanced new features of SQL Server 2005: Database Mirroring.
Office Communications Server 2007 proposes new Voice and Telephony scenarios. This session provides guidance on the critical steps to successfully and smoothly integrate them into your existing telephony environment. Come to this session and learn to how to select pilot users, how to combine gateways with the existing telephony environment, which gateways to choose and finally which considerations you have to take to set up a numbering plan.
This session explains the necessary steps to install and configure the core BDD 2007 Lite Touch components to deploy Windows Vista using BDD 2007. The agenda for this session includes: Core Configuration: Creating the BDD 2007 deployment server structure; adding Windows Vista setup files; creating a BDD 2007 build of Windows Vista; creating a Deployment Point using Lite Touch to deploy Windows Vista; creating and Capturing a Vista Reference Machine for LiteTouch; using Lite Touch to install a new computer; and using Lite Touch to refresh a computer. Using the deployment database: Fully automating the Lite Touch deployment; customizing the Task Sequencer; and building and integrating a custom front-end.
This session introduces the new reporting features in System Center Operations Manager 2007, comparing them to those in Operations Manager 2005. This session also dives deeply into how you can leverage System Center Operations Manager 2007's new Service Designer to visually compose a management pack that will enable your IT Operations team to view line-of-business application dependencies, solve problems using System Center Operations Manager 2007 knowledge and tasks, and capture their knowledge of the system in a intuitive and natural manner.
Integration Services provides enterprise level capabilities for your organization's Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) needs. However, your organization's on-going ETL maintenance and development costs will soar without common standards, building blocks and templates. An ETL Framework addresses these needs by providing a solid foundation that includes: centralized logging and reporting, data exception handling and defect analysis, data profiling, data and execution lineage, centralized/flexible configuration management, ETL state management and templates for common ETL scenarios. In this session, we briefly present an overview of an Enterprise ETL Framework and then interactively drill down into the details by using a reference implementation developed by the author. Integration Services best practices are also covered throughout this session.
SQL Server 2005 contains a variety of features for building systems that scale-out to multiple servers. This includes traditional features, such as distributed partitioned views, and new features, such as SQL Server Service Broker and peer-to-peer replication. Because there are many choices, it may be difficult to decide which feature or features provide the best solution for a given application. This presentation focuses on how to implement the solution that you choose, as well as information on deciding on the best feature or features that meet your application's design criteria.
The new Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 puts Excel spreadsheet calculation and rendering on the server. It is built on the robust, scalable, and secure SharePoint platform. Excel Services enables managed and secure distribution of Excel reports, and the ability to incorporate spreadsheets into business intelligence dashboards and portals; allows you to protect the proprietary information in spreadsheets and build custom applications with Excel-based logic. This session explains Excel Services' basic concepts and architecture, shows Excel Web Access (browser access to live, interactive server spreadsheets), and then delves deeper into how to use the Excel Web Services API (a programmatic interface to Excel Services' calculation engine) and create custom managed-code User Defined Functions that can be used to extend Excel Services' functionality.
As host of ARCast.TV, Ron Jacobs has a front row seat to observe the constantly shifting architectural landscape. In this session, we consider what happens when the force of test driven development (TDD) collides with the demand for better user experience (UX) and the patterns that emerge from this magnificent big bang.
This lab contains a series of six hands-on exercises which demonstrate the key features of Windows PowerShell version 1.0. Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's new shell environment and scripting language. This lab is intended to give you a relatively quick, broad overview of Windows PowerShell features. The exercises do not cover a comprehensive list of low-level language features and syntax such as you'd find in a Reference Guide document; however these exercises cover more detail than you'd find in a typical Quick Start document. After this lab, you will have a solid grasp of exactly what Windows PowerShell is and how you can use PowerShell to simplify a wide range of IT administration and software development tasks.
Come see how the two coolest Microsoft Technologies, Terminal Services (TS) and SoftGrid, can be used together to create a compelling and integrated application delivery platform. Learn how SoftGrid for TS can enable TS server consolidation, fix application compatibility problems, and allow rapid deployment and access to applications. Lastly, discover how SoftGrid for TS integrates with SoftGrid for desktops to create a powerful unified infrastructure.
Customer demands for richer UX, multi-platform support, and higher quality video are continually factors in cost of delivery. Learn how Silverlight , Expression Studio, and new features for Windows Server 2008 together can improve the end-user experience while reducing the cost of video and rich media delivery for companies of all sizes. This session is intended for anyone involved in the creation, management, and experience of digital media on the Web.
There are many reasons for partitioning your data and indexes in SQL Server 2005. One of those reasons is that moving data in and out of a partition can be more efficient that any other type of data movement. The way that SQL Server 2005 keeps track of the internal storage of partitioned data allows data to be moved as a metadata only operation. In this session, we look at the metadata for table, index, and partition storage to explore exactly what happens when a partition is moved. Looking at the internals of partition storage also allows us to understand the reasons for some of the restrictions on how and when partitions can be moved, and to design our data movement processes much more reliably.
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and content controls to help businesses protect their SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments by eliminating documents containing malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. This session covers how Forefront Security for SharePoint leverages the SharePoint 2007 API to scan for infected documents, keywords for inappropriate language, and non-compliant file types. Attendees receive an in-depth drill down on the settings and configurations of the realtime and manual scan jobs, and how they can be changed to meet the security and performance needs of the environment.
Learn how a very small team at Microsoft deploys, supports, and enhances the experience of one of the most mobile-enabled companies in the world. This session is always a crowd favorite. Get the inside scoop, understand how it works, understand how it relates to your company, and get tricks and tips for how to deploy at your company. This session focuses on Windows Mobile only-as Microsoft does not support non-Microsoft mobile platforms.
E-mail has become mission-critical for the large and the small. Businesses and organizations of all types can no longer afford the extended outages of disasters like failed disks, corrupt databases, failed servers, or power outages. Exchange Server 2007 provides simplified in-the-box HA solutions that make recovery from many disasters barely noticeable to end users. Learn how Local Continuous Replication, Cluster Continuous Replication, Standby Continuous Replication and Single Copy Clusters provide fast recovery for events that used to be called disasters.
Join Karen Liu, C# Program Manager, for an in-depth walkthrough of the new language features in C# 3.0. Understand how features like extension methods, lambda expressions, type inference, and anonymous types make it possible to create powerful Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) for expressing queries and interacting with objects, XML, and databases in a strongly typed, natural way. It is suggested that you attend "The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework Overview" before attending this session.
In this lab, use a Windows Server 2008 Member Server to manage a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller using new Windows management technologies. From your Windows Server 2008 Member Server, use event log views and event log subscriptions to identify problems occurring on your server. Then, create custom tasks to alert you when specific problems occur on the server. Finally, review server performance and reliability data using custom reports.
Want to know the future of identity lifecycle management? This session takes you there, showing how Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" will build on your existing investments in Windows and Office to give you the control you need over access to Windows and your enterprise systems. Learn how we are designing the product to accommodate the identity lifecycle specific to your enterprise, and see how you will soon be managing credentials, user information, resource access, and policies with this new technology.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services includes a complete re-architecture of the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) engine from Microsoft SQL Server 2000. This is the second of two independent presentations that focus on the performance and scalability aspects of the Analysis Services architecture. These presentations cover each aspect of cube design in detail and provide specific guidance on how to design for optimal performance. The first presentation covers cube design and storage while this presentation covers MDX and calculations. In this presentation, we take a look under the hood of the OLAP formula engine to understand how MDX queries and calculations are evaluated, along with a sneak peek into some performance related work coming in the next release. Then we take common business problems and show MDX can be utilized to solve them while keeping query performance under control. Finally we point out common gotchas for poor performance in MDX and best practices to address them. These principles and practices should be a necessary foundation for any organization embarking on a large-scale business intelligence project based on Analysis Services 2005.
Seems like Windows Mobile 5 came out just the other day, but yes, version 6 is now ready. We listened to your feedback and incorporated several enhancements and new capabilities to make Windows Mobile 6 truly enterprise ready. We take an in-depth look at how Windows Mobile now supports Rights Management Services (enabling you to work with protected Office documents), a new certificate enrollment process, encryption of storage card contents, and more. We also review existing security features that are important for enterprises to understand and implement. Join Steve Riley as he shows you how Windows Mobile 6 can become your trusted platform for secure mobile access to corporate information.
This session provides you with tips and tricks on how to create the perfect master image for Windows XP and Windows Vista deployments using Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007. It covers how to cut deployment costs by reducing the number images to a minimum. For Windows XP deployments, this session also covers advanced techniques such as HAL Replacement, Mass storage and other common device driver issues. You can expect lots of live demos in this session.
Learn how to do large scale deployments of Windows, including Vista and Windows Server codename "Longhorn", in an enterprise using System Center Configuration Manager 2007. Automate the end-to-end process and drive down the cost of deploying clients and servers using task sequencing. Handle wipe-and-load upgrades, side-by-side migrations, bare metal provisioning, and deployments in low or zero network bandwidth environments. See what's new since the SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack, and how to position Automated Deployment Services, Windows Desktop Search, Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment, and Configuration Manager 2007 OSD. Includes live demonstrations of Configuration Manager 2007 OSD functionality.
Walk through the most exciting releases of ASP.NET, Visual Studio and Internet Information Services (IIS) yet-ASP.NET "Orcas", Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7. Learn how the new releases enable developers and IT operators to dramatically reduce the amount of time, effort and code required to develop and deploy real-world Web applications. ASP.NET "Orcas", Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7 each provide much improved administration and management support, on top of dramatically improved performance.
In this lab, learn how to manage and administer Exchange Server 2007. Gain hands-on experience by moving mailboxes between mailbox databases using the Exchange Management Shell, using the Exchange Server 2007 Toolbox (ExBPAand ExPA), and using Exchange Server 2007 AutoDiscover with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
Windows Server 2008 includes several management technologies and features that simplify administration, operations, assessment, and troubleshooting of Windows servers throughout IT organizations. This session provides an overview of the resources available to manage servers in the Windows Server 2008 timeframe, including Server Manager, Windows Update, Windows Software Update Services, Windows Eventing, Windows PowerShell, and Group Policy.
In this session, we look at a fast-paced collection of indexing tips and tricks based on an already optimized base table structure. How you create your base table-as well as cluster it-has a big impact on that table's performance. Once the base table structures have been defined and you have to further improve system performance, where do you look and how do you do this? In this session, we talk about targeting the known and finding the unknown performance problems. Once you know where the problems are, we explain numerous options to improve the performance using indexes. This session includes a lot of tips and tricks for various search arguments (SARGs) and joins.
Forefront Client Security enables administrators the ability to configure one policy for anti-virus, anti-spyware, and security state assessment. This session gives you an in-depth view into the different configuration settings and the granularity between administrative deployed settings and client settings. Also, see the ease of use in deploying policies to the clients, laptops and servers with AD/GP, and a technical drill-down into software pre-requisites and key steps needed for setting up FCS under one, two, and four server topologies.
What do you do when a disaster such as component failure, power outage, operator error, malicious activity, or natural disaster out-strips your Exchange 2007 High Availability solution? How do you minimize the impact of the disaster and resume business operations as quickly as possible? This session covers practical techniques you can use to recover from system faults, operational best practices that enable business continuity, and barriers to availability and recovery to watch out for.
In this second of a two-part series, continue the walk through the most exciting releases of ASP.NET, Visual Studio and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) yet-ASP.NET "Orcas", Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7. Areas covered include Visual Studio support for ASP.NET AJAX, JavaScript enhancements, rich support for CSS standards, rapid development of data-bound Web pages using DLinq, and more.
For many businesses, maintaining remote locations generates significant operational costs and administrative challenges. Although businesses are well aware of these issues, they are often constrained by one simple prerequisite?£á"distributed networks. Ultimately, the inherent limitations of distributed network architectures?£á"WANs?£á"have an undesirable effect on the efficient operation of branch offices. This scenario focuses on the security, management, and communication improvements that will mitigate these issues for branch offices where Windows Server 2008 is deployed. The clinic is comprised of three lessons and a lab covering the following topics: 1) Branch Office Server Deployment and Administration 2) Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) 3) Branch Office Physical Security Approximately one-half of the total three-hour clinic is devoted to lecture/discussion, and half is devoted to the lab exercises.
Your company's application platform is critical for business success. Microsoft is focused on delivering technologies that help IT Professionals and Developers work together to design, develop, deploy and manage connected and flexible solutions that deliver real business value. Hear the latest about Microsoft's vision for the Application Platform, understand our technology roadmap and core focus areas - including SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006; and see the products in action with end-to-end demos that focus on connecting back end systems, mapping business processes and integrating application development across the IT lifecycle.
Level 100 (Introductory) Through technical sessions, you will be introduced to product and technology features, functions, and benefits. Business sessions will introduce you to product functionality and include demonstrations of end-user tips. You may also learn how and why to invest in a certain product or technology.
Level 200 (Intermediate) Attendees should have Level 100 knowledge of the product or technology because these sessions drill down further into a topic than introductory sessions. These sessions often include product demonstrations, code samples, best practices, and high-level troubleshooting techniques.
Level 300 (Experienced) These sessions cover advanced material and assume Level 200 knowledge, an in-depth understanding of features in a real-world environment, and strong coding skills. These sessions provide you with a detailed technical overview of a subset of product or technology features, covering architecture, performance, migration, deployment, and development.
Level 400 (Advanced/Expert) These sessions assume a deep level of technical knowledge and experience and a detailed, thorough understanding of the topic. They offer expert-to-expert interaction and coverage of such specialized topics as custom code, scripts, application solution development, and architect infrastructure designs and solutions.
ARC / DEV / SOA / WEB
Developer Tools and Architecture
BAP / PRT
Business Applications & Partners
BIN / DAT
Business Intelligence / Database Development and Administration
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