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| TECHNOLOGY TENTS |
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| MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PRODUCTS |
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| Date: May 13th, 2009
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| Technology Tent: BizTalk Server |
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| BizTalk Server is used to connect systems both inside and across the organizations. This includes exchanging data and orchestrating business processes which require multiple systems. With over 8,000 customers, including 90% of the Fortune Global 100, BizTalk Server is a trusted solution for SOA and Business Process Management. BizTalk Server includes support for Electronic Document Interchange (EDI), the single most commonly used means by which business trading partners exchange data electronically. In addition, solution accelerators for HIPAA, HL7, RosettaNet and SWIFT are included.
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10:00am – 11:30am |
BizTalk Developer Tools & Manageability |
BizTalk Server is used to connect systems both inside and across organizations. This includes exchanging data and orchestrating business processes which require multiple systems. BizTalk provides a rich set of developer tools to build and deploy complex integration solutions. Meet us to know how to deploy the solution and explains Manageability features like artifacts manipulation via MMC, Query Builder, BRC, TPE etc.
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11:30am – 01:00pm |
Adapters |
BizTalk Adapter Pack includes WCF-based LOB adapters that can be used to enable LOB integration for various Microsoft applications including BizTalk, SharePoint, SQL, .NET applications etc. BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 was shipped in Q1 CY08 that included WCF-based LOB adapters to SAP, Oracle DB, and Siebel systems. BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 has been shipped recently and it adds WCF-based LOB adapters to SQL and Oracle EBS in addition to enhancing the SAP, Oracle DB, and Siebel adapters.
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01:00pm – 02:30pm |
RFID |
RFID provides a rich software platform for connected applications to integrate with physical world such as RFID devices and Sensors. The widespread adoption of this very powerful enabling technology is hindered by the costs and complexities of implementing solutions. BizTalk provides a RFID infrastructure that will significantly reduce the complexity of implementing an RFID solution and drastically reduce the total cost of ownership.
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02:30pm – 04:00pm |
B2B |
BizTalk Server 2009 provides rich feature set to enable B2B scenarios. Along with strong EAI framework, it stands out as a single comprehensive solution for most enterprises for both their in-house application/backend integration and external B2B partner integration.
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04:00pm – 05:30pm |
Enterprise Service Bus |
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a design approach that promotes better alignment of IT with business needs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture enables SOA the SOA vision. BizTalk provides developers, architects and IT professionals with the tools, technologies, framework and guidance for building and maintaining SOA solutions in a manner that increases productivity, lowers costs, and promotes organizational agility.
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| Technology Tent: Mobile Developer
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The team has been contributing towards the success of Microsoft mobile strategies for the past 10 years. Visual Studio for Devices is the best development platform for building Smart Device applications for Windows Mobile and Windows CE operating systems. The .NET Compact Framework is a key part of realizing Microsoft's goal to provide customers with a great experience any time, any place and on any device.
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. The team at MSIDC is responsible for engineering the Silverlight platform for Windows Mobile and Symbian OS based Smartphones.
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Topic |
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10:00am – 03:00pm |
.NET CF & Mobile Tools |
.Net Compact Framework is the managed runtime environment available on mobile devices. It simplifies application development using C# and VB.NET with a Rich UI, data and networking support. Mobile Tools group is responsible for providing wide variety of Visual Studio developer tools for building Mobile applications using Native (C++) and Managed .Net(C#, VB.NET) programming models.
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03:00pm – 06:00pm |
Silverlight for Mobile |
Microsoft Silverlight Mobile powers rich application experiences through the most comprehensive runtime. With Silverlight for mobile platform, developers would be able to create application with compelling user experiences and seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Servers, Developer and Designer Tools and supported by a thriving partner ecosystem.
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| Date: May 14th, 2009
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| Technology Tent: Visual Studio Team System |
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| Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) is an integrated approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). The vision is to deliver a completely integrated and comprehensive end to end tools platform for developing complex business critical applications right from the stage of requirement gathering through architecture, design, development, testing, deployment and operations management. At Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC), the team is working on 2 key products of VSTS – Test Edition and Lab Management, which together form the Visual Studio Test Business (VSTB).
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Topic |
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10:00am – 02:00pm |
VSTS Test Edition |
VSTT provides a modular approach to manual and automated functional testing for multiple environments, an intuitive unit testing tool, an extremely scalable web testing and load testing solution, a customizable test planning and management console, built-in traceability between requirements, test cases, defects and code changes, support for testing in virtualized environments, and a powerful reporting capability.
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02:00pm – 05:00pm |
VSTS Lab Management |
VSTS Lab Management leverages virtualization to build bridges across development and testing teams throughout the application development lifecycle. The capabilities of Lab Management include:
- Accelerate set-up/ tear down and restoration of complex virtual environments to a clean state, improving machine utilization
- Eliminate no repro bugs by allowing testers to file rich bugs with links to environment checkpoints that developers use to recreate complex environments
- Extend build automation to drive efficiencies by automating virtual machine provisioning, build deployment and build verification in an integrated manner
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05:00pm – 07:00pm |
Remote Desktop Virtualization |
The Remote Desktop Virtualization (RDV) team defines and develops platform technologies to enable RDV services. RDV technology enables remote execution of desktop applications in a server session or in a virtual machine from a wide range of devices. Known as Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server, the RDV platform provides full multimedia support on the desktop with 100% coverage for all media types at a lower cost per user than traditional PC architecture. The team works with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Windows OS Kernel and .Net technologies. It is focused on enhancing manageability, scalability, reliability and security of the RDV platform to enable large-scale real-world desktop and application hosting services.
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| Technology Tent: Microsoft Business Division |
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| The MBD MSIDC team is changing the way people work, collaborate and communicate - from the mobile phone where we provide the best-of-breed productivity Office Applications & IP-based communication tools, to enterprise server applications such as Dynamics CRM and Duet, and to live services where we deliver SharePoint services to users on the web.
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10:00am – 12:00pm |
Office Mobile |
Office mobile vision is to extend the value of Office to your Windows Mobile device and be the best set of productivity tools for Information Workers when mobile.
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12:00pm – 01:00pm |
SharePoint |
The team’s vision is to make SharePoint the first choice of web based collaboration for everyone. The core goal is to deliver the SharePoint experience for reach customers like small organizations, Information Workers and consumers. We will enable the next generation of web collaboration by building easy-to-use SharePoint functionality, simplifying user experience for first time users and providing easy extensibility in the areas for personal and shared space.
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01:00pm – 03:00pm |
Unified Communications |
The UC products group at MSIDC develops desktop and mobile software that combines user presence and availability with voice and messaging communication modalities for a rich, person-centric communication experience. Come join us for a discussion on Office Communicator Mobile.
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03:00pm – 05:00pm |
Dynamics CRM |
The MSIDC Dynamics CRM team has worked on some of the key features of the product, including Marketing Automation Module, East Asian Market specific features, Integration Solutions and Data Management for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The team is geared up to deliver the next wave of innovative CRM applications with state-of-the-art features in the areas of Collaboration, Customer Services Applications and Business Intelligence and Data Management.
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05:00pm – 07:00pm |
Duet |
The goal of the Duet team at MSIDC is to make Microsoft Office the primary user experience for working with business information and participating in business processes. Duet enables Business Users to Find, Collaborate, Analyze and Act upon SAP business information in their familiar Office and SharePoint environments.
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| Date: May 15th, 2009
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| Technology Tent: Windows Server
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| The Windows teams at MSIDC drive several core capabilities of the next generation of Windows, including critical client and desktop virtualization technologies, pervasive/ ubiquitous enterprise network connectivity apart from working on several in-the-box applications which will showcase key new software and hardware advances in the new platform.
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10:00am – 01:00pm |
Networking |
The team delivers several networking technologies that are essential for Internet/ intranet connectivity. They develop mobile broadband, remote access, network addressing and naming solutions as well as network authentication solutions. The products engineered by this team form the core of networking infrastructure and impact millions of people every day. MSIDC has complete engineering ownership of several key Windows Server components, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server, Routing and Remote Access Server (RRAS) and WINS Server. This team has played a key role in customer connection/ eco-system management and delivery of DirectAccess, Mobile Broadband, Link Layer Filtering and VPN Reconnect in Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2.
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01:00pm – 04:00pm |
Virtualization |
Virtualization makes it possible to run multiple legacy operating systems on a single computer with a new Windows Operating System. For example, Windows XP Mode is built using Virtual PC, which allows users of Windows 7 Professional and above to launch many older Windows XP productivity applications directly from their Windows 7 desktop and help small businesses using Windows XP applications move to Windows 7. This helps users to run legacy applications compatible only with the older OS on the new OS in a seamless manner. Users can also run their own private virtual machines allowing flexible computing (work and personal use) and consolidation of resources. The MSIDC Virtualization team has end-to-end engineering ownership of Microsoft’s flagship Virtualization products Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Virtual PC and has made significant contributions to Hyper-V, Microsoft’s path-breaking server virtualization product released in 2008.
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04:00pm – 07:00pm |
Applets & Gadgets |
The team develops applications that are shipped with Windows, such as Paint, Calculator, WordPad, Notepad, Sticky Notes and Gadgets. Their work highlights how other ISVs can use the Windows platform to provide real value to users and focuses on delivering best user experience. Some of the platforms that they work with are Windows Ribbon, Multi-touch, Real-time Stylus, Sensor and Location, Rich Text Framework and Gadget Platform.
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| Technology Tent: SQL Server |
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| The MSIDC team contributes towards SQL Server Compact Server and SQL Server Manageability space. The team also actively engages in emerging technologies in the database area through its innovation centers.
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10:00am – 12:00pm |
SQL Manageability |
SQL Server Management Studio 2008 manages the instance’s schema, storage, security and policy details. There is a programming object model, SMO to manage aspects of SQL Server instance SMO and SSMS Express available for public download. Join us for a discussion around the manageability aspects of SQL Server. We are also working on an application model to enable developers define database schema, reference data and deployment requirements. Through this you can discover and manage existing investments and centrally manage applications and instances. Ask us about Kilimanjaro CTP2 release!
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12:00pm – 02:00pm |
Embedded Databases |
The SQL team at MSIDC focuses on SQL Compact (a.k.a SQL Mobile, SQL CE) which is a light weight (~1MB) embedded, in-proc database for Devices to Desktops. It has a nice subset of SQL Server Types and supports local online/offline database scenarios with synchronization capabilities.
We also work on an exciting technology which is Microsoft project codename “Velocity”. It is a distributed data cache for all kind of data built using commoditized hardware and best of all, it is free! This will help applications achieve performance, scalability and availability. Join us to discuss the reference data, activity data & resource data scenarios.
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| Technology Tent: Data Lifecycle Management |
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| Data Lifecycle Management is a Center of Excellence at MSIDC working on data protection and storage technologies. This team has end-to-end engineering ownership for the Data Protection Manager (DPM), which is Microsoft’s flagship product offering addressing an IT organization’s data protection needs. DPM leverages disk to protect critical information assets for the Windows Server System family of applications. This team also owns the engineering charter for next generation cutting edge platform storage technologies for Microsoft’s Client & Server operating systems.
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02:00pm – 04:30pm |
Protecting SharePoint with DPM |
Join us for an overview of protecting Microsoft application workloads with DPM. We will also provide deeper insight into how DPM addresses the challenges that customers face with protecting medium and large SharePoint farms.
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04:30pm – 07:00pm |
Protecting Virtual Environments with DPM 2007 SP1 |
It is critical to maintain efficient backups and quick recovery for your virtualized deployments. In this session attendees will be provided an overview of protecting Microsoft application workloads with DPM. We will discuss how DPM 2007 SP1 provides protection for Hyper-V based virtualized deployments.
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