| Wednesday - 13th May, 2009 |
| Developer |
| Web Developer Platform |
| Welcome to the web developer's world. Microsoft Web Platform offers comprehensive web development techniques for creating powerful enterprise web applications. The Web Development Track provides the necessary skills that today's web developers require for developing cutting edge web applications with rich user experience at faster development turnaround time and making them secured as well as scalable enough for meeting the demands on an ever growing space. Let’s explore ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, IIS, Server Core and the newly released Microsoft Web Platform over the technically focussed sessions. |
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| Application Life Cycle Management |
| Traditional approaches have kept developers, testers, architects, project manager and others working in silo’s, leading to significant challenges with delivering projects on time. Today when business is demanding more from these teams, aligning with business becomes very critical to deliver successful projects. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) has become one of the most important models used that helps turn these walls into bridges. Everyone on the team – project managers, developers, testers – should be able to contribute to the success of the business, but available tools often get in the way. This track will paint a vision of turning walls into bridges via ALM and the role Visual Studio Team System plays in making that vision a reality via examples of how Microsoft is adopting this internally. |
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| .NET Fundamentals |
| .NET Framework has evolved for quite some time and .NET Framework 4.0 brings in a world of enhancements in the languages, runtime, library as well as core features such as parallelism. Also some of the features such as LINQ get a facelift with support for parallel extensions (PLINQ) and also deeper integration to the core runtime. In this track, we will explore .NET Inside out, dive deep into LINQ internals and parallel extensions as well as explore some of the language enhancements in the .NET Framework 4.0 that help developers build better applications. |
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| IT Pro |
| Virtualization 360 |
| With today's IT budget constraints, virtualization enables you to maximize your current hardware investments and provide increased services. The Virtualization track covers all of Virtualization from the desktop to the datacenter. Learn about Microsoft's virtualization strategy, as well as our current solutions: Windows Server® Hyper-V, Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server, App-V, MED-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Terminal Services (Remote Desktop Services). Sessions include real-world lessons from both Microsoft and industry experts. Come learn all about the present and future of Virtualization at Microsoft. |
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| Administering Windows Server 2008 |
| The basis of any strong datacenter now and for the future starts with the core operation system. The Windows Server® family of products provides you with the best solution to build your IT infrastructure for any size organization. From the Essential Server Solutions to Windows Server 2008 R2, this track shows you the solutions and set of technologies to ensure success. |
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| Managing your Enterprise |
| The Management track covers the comprehensive set of management products and solutions enabled by the Microsoft® System Center product suite as well as various Windows Management Technologies to help you gain back control of your environment. The sessions presented provide you with in-depth guidance and technical background in "Managing the Datacenter" and "Managing the Desktop" while also covering the management of heterogeneous IT environments. |
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| Management |
| Management [Surfing through the recession tsunami] |
| This track provides practical tips for project management, managing crucial conversations and effective leadership techniques, particularly suited for the current environment that demands higher efficiency in all the above disciplines. Along with this we will also host an open QA forum for discussing best practices and effective techniques, proven measures etc., that help you make better decisions. |
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| Friday - 15th May, 2009 |
| Developer |
| Rich Internet Applications |
| Microsoft Silverlight provides a great platform for developing Rich Internet Applications that spawn across a multitude of web browsers and platform. Silverlight 3, recently announced at MIX provides better features that support video, graphics and offline support. We will explore how the new features in Silverlight help develop interactive applications quickly. Also, we will explore the .NET RIA Services that help building LOB Applications complementing ASP.NET and Data Access techniques already available for web developers. The Rich Internet Applications Track helps you get more out of your Silverlight experiences |
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| Mobile |
| With the increasingly mobile nature of computing today, the Windows Mobile® track gives you the background that you need for selecting, developing for, and securely managing Windows Mobile phones. Did you know you can build for Windows Mobile with Microsoft® Visual Studio® skills you already have? Did you know that you can securely manage your mobile devices with Microsoft® System Center Mobile Device Manager? Find out this and much more in the Windows Mobile track. |
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| Cloud Platform |
| Curious about cloud computing? In today’s world where technology meets scale and speed, being connected across devices, users & the web are key for continuous and uninterrupted business. Come hear how Microsoft is building a new platform for applications, and learn about the key services that compose the platform as well as how to get started. We introduce Microsoft’s operating system for the cloud – Windows Azure. Come learn how to use Windows Azure to better address key challenges of running Internet-scale applications in the cloud. Along with this, we have a stack of other infrastructural services available on the cloud for developers called “Azure Services Platform”. Come learn how to plug in key components like database on the cloud, Identity services, workflow services, service bus live mesh and live services on the cloud. This track will weave a complete end to end discussion of all the offerings on the cloud along with a real world implementation of the same. |
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| Service Oriented Architecture |
| The key words for most organizations, big or small, in current times is lower cost of operation, optimal utilization of existing IT resources, managing dynamic business processes and enhanced revenue. The key mantra for achieving this lies in building distributed applications to automate and manage business processes residing in silos in the various LOB applications to derive organizational efficiency by having up to date information to help companies make the right business decisions at the right time and also have a flexible set of IT assets. These are some of the mysteries that we will help you unravel in the SOA track with insights into applications such as DUET and CCF. The sessions will also help you gain real world perspectives of technologies such as Microsoft Biztalk Server 2009, RFID, ESB, WCF and WF which will give you a concrete approach to design, build, deploy and manage distributed applications. |
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| Business Intelligence |
| Now more than ever, your business needs a quick means of getting the right information to the right people so that they can make smarter, more informed decisions. Microsoft's Business Intelligence solutions enable you to do just this. The Business Intelligence track offers sessions covering how to integrate, analyze, and report on all of your corporate data easily using the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform, end-user tools, and analytics applications. Learn how to build custom, robust Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft® SQL® Server 2005 and 2008 (Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services), Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 (Monitoring, Analysis) and the 2007 Office system (Microsoft® Office Excel®, Excel Services and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server technologies) and how to easily manage them. |
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| MS Interoperability |
| In today’s heterogeneous computing environments and with the emergence of Web services and service-oriented architectures, interoperability has become a critical business and IT need. Microsoft is committed to solving the real-world interoperability challenges of our customers, developers, partners, and independent software providers, through innovative products, technology access, and support for technology standards. Join us on this track to understand how you can build solution on the MS platform using Eclipse, Java & Ruby , how you can use IIS 7 to host your PHP applications, leverage your existing investments on mYSQL to build BI solutions using MS SSIS and MS SSRS and how jQuery can be used for cross-browser javascript development. A must attend for the heterogeneous developers and solution builders! |
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| IT Pro |
| Data Platform |
| The Microsoft® SQL Server® data platform helps your organization manage any data, any place, any time with the security, reliability and scalability that your mission-critical applications require. The Database Platform track offers the knowledge you need to maximize your Microsoft SQL Server investments and gain the skills needed to seamlessly run a mission-critical environment. Gain insights into future SQL Server technology investments so you can rest assured knowing the bets you make today will continue to pay off in the future. |
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| Unified Communication & Collaboration |
| Microsoft unified communications technologies use the power of software to deliver complete communications-messaging, voice, and video-across the applications and devices that people use every day. The Unified Communications track strengthens your knowledge of Microsoft Unified Communications platform and technologies, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Microsoft Office LiveMeeting and Microsoft® Exchange Online. Explore how you can streamline your organization's communications, build presence aware applications, roll out an on-premise, hosted messaging and collaboration system, and much more! |
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| Client Infrastructure |
| The Windows Client track has everything you need to know about adoption, deployment, management, and virtualization of the Windows® Desktop Environment, including a technical introduction into Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Come learn best practices and hear about the advancements in the Windows Client technologies which will help you manage and accelerate your desktop deployment efforts. Get real-world guidance from our industry experts via sessions that span client-side development, readying applications for your OS roll-out, deployment tools and technologies, virtualization, and much more. |
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| Securing your Infrastructure |
| Security continues to be a major concern for almost every company in business today, and technology professionals are always looking for ways to improve and bolster their security strategies and tactics. Microsoft brings unique capabilities together to deliver comprehensive, integrated solutions across IT security, identity, access, and management. The Security, Identity, and Access track provides guidance and technical detail on Microsoft® Forefront™ products, identity-based access technologies, Windows® security technologies, and more! |
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| Architect |
| Software + Services |
| The Architecture track offers sessions focused on Architecture of technology and Architecture as a practice. Elements include the architectural process of translating business vision, intent, and strategy into effective technological change in the Enterprise; addressing the skills of creating, communicating, and improving the key tenets, principles, and models that describe the Enterprise's future state and enable its transformation, evolution, or migration. We would primarily focus on scenarios for architecting Enterprise Grade Solutions that focus on using the present set of technologies as well as technologies that are going to be released soon. Sessions will focus on understanding how things are built and what patterns should be used to put technologies together (architecture-wise). The track would also offer a session focusing on Soft skill of Architects and how “Architects can help craft value for stake holders during the tough time” |
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| Thursday - 14th May, 2009 |
| Developer |
| Web Developer Platform |
| Welcome to the web developer's world. Microsoft Web Platform offers comprehensive web development techniques for creating powerful enterprise web applications. The Web Development Track provides the necessary skills that today's web developers require for developing cutting edge web applications with rich user experience at faster development turnaround time and making them secured as well as scalable enough for meeting the demands on an ever growing space. Let’s explore ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, IIS, Server Core and the newly released Microsoft Web Platform over the technically focussed sessions. |
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| Client Development |
| Welcome to the world of Desktop Development. Whether you are a Winform Developer or a WPF developer or one who specializes in creating Toolbars for Internet Explorer, this track has something to suit your needs. In this track we will focus on Winform enhancements in .NET 4.0 as well as explore the world of enhancements Internet Explorer 8 brings in for toolbar developers and general debugging techniques. Also, we will explore on the WPF enhancements in .NET 4.0 that include the Touch SDKs targeting the next generation of Windows Platform, Windows 7 |
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| Building Enterprise Services |
| With a lot of focus today on creating scalable, interoperable middle tier that can spread across multiple protocols such as REST, SOAP, POX etc., building middle tier or service layer is even more challenging. In this track we will explore the variety of options Microsoft Platform provides for creating services that can bridge your application presentation and data layer and also provide a highly interoperable environment for consumption by different clients. In this track, we will explore on various things starting from WCF and RESTFul services, Astoria as well as the newly previewed "Oslo" and "Dublin" that were announced in professional developers conference, recently. |
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| Service Oriented Architecture |
| The key words for most organizations, big or small, in current times is lower cost of operation, optimal utilization of existing IT resources, managing dynamic business processes and enhanced revenue. The key mantra for achieving this lies in building distributed applications to automate and manage business processes residing in silos in the various LOB applications to derive organizational efficiency by having up to date information to help companies make the right business decisions at the right time and also have a flexible set of IT assets. These are some of the mysteries that we will help you unravel in the SOA track with insights into applications such as DUET and CCF. The sessions will also help you gain real world perspectives of technologies such as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009, RFID, ESB, WCF and WF which will give you a concrete approach to design, build, deploy and manage distributed applications. |
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| Office and Collaboration |
| The Office and SharePoint® track provides IT professionals and developers with a deep technical arsenal for the 2007 Microsoft® Office system. Come and learn from industry experts the best practices and advice on how to architect, design, deploy, and implement world-class solutions built on the Office and SharePoint platform technologies. Be prepared to learn more about the next wave of innovations while also going deep into 2007 Office system products and technologies such as SharePoint Server 2007, Office Enterprise. As an IT professional, learn about Office server and client applications with sessions covering security, deployment, management, customization, and administration. As a developer, learn how to take your ASP.NET expertise to the fast-growing SharePoint ecosystem, how to craft the next generation of Office Business Applications and about the latest techniques for creating applications involving Microsoft Office, composition, collaboration, software-plus-services and more! |
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| Data Platform |
| The Microsoft® SQL Server® data platform helps your organization manage any data, any place, any time with the security, reliability and scalability that your mission-critical applications require. The Database Platform track offers the knowledge you need to maximize your Microsoft SQL Server investments and gain the skills needed to seamlessly run a mission-critical environment. Gain insights into future SQL Server technology investments so you can rest assured knowing the bets you make today will continue to pay off in the future. |
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| IT Pro |
| Unified Communication & Collaboration |
| Microsoft unified communications technologies use the power of software to deliver complete communications-messaging, voice, and video-across the applications and devices that people use every day. The Unified Communications track strengthens your knowledge of Microsoft Unified Communications platform and technologies, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Microsoft Office LiveMeeting and Microsoft® Exchange Online. Explore how you can streamline your organization's communications, build presence aware applications, roll out an on-premise, hosted messaging and collaboration system, and much more! |
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| Virtualization 360 |
| With today's IT budget constraints, virtualization enables you to maximize your current hardware investments and provide increased services. The Virtualization track covers all of Virtualization from the desktop to the datacenter. Learn about Microsoft's virtualization strategy, as well as our current solutions: Windows Server® Hyper-V, Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server, App-V, MED-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Terminal Services (Remote Desktop Services). Sessions include real-world lessons from both Microsoft and industry experts. Come learn all about the present and future of Virtualization at Microsoft. |
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| Managing your Enterprise |
| The Management track covers the comprehensive set of management products and solutions enabled by the Microsoft® System Center product suite as well as various Windows Management Technologies to help you gain back control of your environment. The sessions presented provide you with in-depth guidance and technical background in "Managing the Datacenter" and "Managing the Desktop" while also covering the management of heterogeneous IT environments. |
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| Architect |
| Patterns & Practices |
The Architecture track offers sessions focused on Architecture of technology and Architecture as a practice. Elements include the architectural process of translating business vision, intent, and strategy into effective technological change in the Enterprise; addressing the skills of creating, communicating, and improving the key tenets, principles, and models that describe the Enterprise's future state and enable its transformation, evolution, or migration.
The Microsoft patterns & practices (p&p) team is responsible for delivering applied engineering guidance that helps software architects, developers, and their teams take full advantage of Microsoft’s platform technologies in their custom application development efforts. They provide guidance that:1) Helps to simplify the Microsoft application platform. 2) Provides solution guidance to common problems. 3) Helps development teams grow their skills and learn. The day will contain a set of unique presentations offered by folks from the Patterns and Practices team in Redmond on some of their latest offerings like “Application Architecture Guide” and Prism Guidance. |
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