9:00am – 11:30am
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Spotting the Future – Keynote
Speaker: Darien Nagle, Enterprise and Partner Group Director
KT Ng, Windows Client Group Director |
11:30am – 12:00pm
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Staying Ahead in a Slow Economy – Understanding your certification options
Speaker: Sukhdev Singh, Microsoft Learning – APAC Area Sales Director In a volatile economy, everything is a challenge, you might say. Will I be able to find a job, any job? Is my job as secure as before? Will I still get a pay-raise at the end of the year? With the slowing down of economy in Malaysia, join us and find out how with the right training and the right certification - not only can it helps to differentiate yourselves during slowdowns, it will also elevate yourself further when the economy recovers. Earn a Microsoft Certification, and demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft products and platforms. By becoming certified, it will also helps you to prove to peers and employers that you are committed to advancing your skills and that you are a candidate for new opportunities and career growth when the economy recovers. Join us for this session and find out how it could make all the difference between surviving and thriving later on! |
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Lunch (on your own)
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1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Advancing Desktop Management
Speaker: Christopher Perez Estonina This presentation includes demonstrations of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008, Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM), Group Policy preferences, and the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). |
Introduction to Microsoft Virtualization
Speaker: Noel Teng, Principal Technology Specialist This session provides an overview of Microsoft Virtualization solutions and Microsoft’s optimization models and discusses how you can adopt these models as a framework to overcome business and operational challenges in your IT environment and create a Dynamic infrastructure to reduce cost, increase availability, and enable business agility. |
Software plus Service : The vision for next generation applications
Speaker: Lai Hoong Fai, Senior Technology Advisor The future is a combination of local software and Internet services interacting with one another. In this session you will learn how to develop the next generation of local software that is developed using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and cloud services. We will be giving you a sneak preview of a reference application which was developed locally in Malaysia. It is meant to demonstrate what a typical software plus services solution may look like. Check out the Azure Services Developer Portal to provision your applications and integrate them with the Windows Live ID Authentication system. You will see an identity-aware application that leverages the Live Platform to create a seamless, and customized sign on experiences across the local software and the cloud service. |
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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The Security Hardening and Defense-in-Depth
Speaker: Azra Rizal Dato Noor Azman, Security Advisor
This presentation drills into the top pain-points IT pros experience in securing their PC infrastructure, and presents Core Infrastructure solutions that utilize Microsoft technologies to remediate these issues. |
Microsoft Desktop Virtualization (aka Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Speaker: John Philips, Enterprise Technology Strategist Desktop Virtualization offers new and powerful opportunities for IT to deliver and manage corporate desktops and to respond to various user needs in a flexible way. Virtualized desktops can be either client-hosted, centralized on servers in the data center—often referred to as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), or a combination of blades and dedicated machines.
This session will outline the options, key benefits and differentiators, and describe the architecture and technology to meet the challenging demands of a Virtualized and Dynamic desktop solution. It will also outline the various partners that complement this solution, including Quest and Citrix.
So, if you want to be at the leading edge of the VDI space, and learn a little about the futures, then this is the session to be at! |
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Data Platform – Scalability, Performance and Manageability
Speaker: Nicole Loh, Technology Solution Professional, Data Management Today’s organizations need easily accessible and readily available business data, while relational and analytical databases continue to grow in size, embedded databases ship with many products, and many companies are consolidating servers to ease management concerns. Attend this session to learn how SQL Server offers scalable platform, insightful data and automated administration tools to support these business needs. |
Hyper-V Deployment and Best Practices
Speaker: Satyen Pradhan, Premier Field Engineer Microsoft’s Hyper-V provides software infrastructure and basic management tools in Windows Server 2008 that you can use to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. Come and hear an overview of Hyper-V, including system requirements, architecture and deployment practices in production. This session includes best practices for networking with Hyper-V and building out Hyper-V systems along with virtual machine (VM) creation. |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8: Developer Overview
Speaker: Rohan Thomas, Senior Web Platform and UX Technology Advisor Users will be able to browse the web with brand new, standards compliant rendering engine in Internet Explorer 8, while continuing to support existing web content. We take a deep dive look into how this engine works and why it means hasLayout is gone. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and dive into the intricacies of HTML, CSS, and everything else that affects the web you view. |
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Business Intelligence Platform - Delivering The Best Of Predictive Analytics
Speaker: Chia Sheng Sin, Premier Field Engineer Data mining helps you explore your data visually, find patterns hidden in your data, and helps perform predictions. This session will introduce to you on how to use SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services to do data mining and predictive |
Security and Virtualization Management
Speaker: Raymound Chou, System Center MVP Redynamics This session will review Microsoft’s approach to virtualization security, covering the secure computing platform enabled by Hyper-V as well as complementary solutions that deliver integrated protection and simplified management. Learn more about how Microsoft’s integrated approach to security, identity & access, and management helps customers protect their physical and virtual assets. |
Building amazing content with Sharepoint
Speaker: Patrick Yong, Application Platform Advisor Learn how to light up your SharePoint site with interactive content. Watch a demonstration that shows how to create unique content that enhance the user experience for the user. |
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Agenda is subject to change without prior notice Free wireless connection will be available, more reason to bring along your notebook and participate in our activities and even win prizes**! *Please visit http://technet.microsoft.com/windows and print out the main page to redeem the mystery gift at the event. First come, first served.
**Terms and conditions apply.
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