PRC01 | Building Federated External Access for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

• Code: PRC01
  Track: Office, Office 365 & SharePoint
  Audience: IT Professional
  Speaker: John Craddock
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  Managing authentication and authorization for external users has always been a challenge. You may have read great things about federation, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), claims, and SAML authentication for SharePoint—but what is the reality?

  
  

  Come learn the best practices for deploying an enterprise-ready federated environment from John Craddock, federation and security architect. John is currently engaged by a major global corporation on a federated design for SharePoint using a combination of UAG, ADFS, SharePoint 2010 and a third-party IdP.

  
  

  The seminar begins with a quick introduction to federation and ADFS and then gets down to the real details of designing and implementing the system. The day is packed with demos. You will not only discover what works, but also some of the things that don’t work, although maybe they should!

PRC02 | Real World Windows Deployment Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012

• Code: PRC02
  Track: Windows Client, Windows Server
  Audience: IT Professional
  Speaker: Michael Niehaus, Mikael Nystrom
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  If you are evaluating Windows 7 or Windows 8, and considering what it might take to migrate your users, this seminar is designed for you. Deployment tools and processes have evolved a long way since Windows XP, making things possible that were not even imagined in the past. Join some of the top minds and industry veterans of Windows deployment as we walk through the steps we perform when migrating Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8 using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).

  
  

  This session offers “real-world” guidance based on experience managing deployment projects, doing the work with real users and encountering real challenges. Expect to leave with the background you need to be successful with your deployment projects, and an understanding of where to go should you need more help migrating your users to Windows 7 or Windows 8.

  
  

  We clarify how MDT really works, why you should use it, and in what scenarios it can be used. Learn how to create an image for your users, how to deploy the image to your users, how to troubleshoot deployment and how to successfully manage your deployments long term.

  
  

  We demonstrate how to customize MDT for any size organization, from small businesses to enterprise, global, and multiple-site organizations. Learn how to customize the deployments, customize the deployment wizard, bend the rules, integrate with databases, web services and much more.

PRC03 | Private Cloud Immersion - Sold Out

• This Pre-Conference Seminar has sold out.

  
  

  Code: PRC03
  Track: Management, Windows Server
  Audience: IT Professional
  Speaker: Chris Van Wesep, Clare Henry
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  The Microsoft Private Cloud Immersion seminar is designed to provide hands-on experiences to get you excited about private cloud solutions by showcasing core capabilities that differentiate Microsoft from the competition. More than just a PPT presentation, the Private Cloud Immersion takes real-life situations and presents a new way of solving issues. You will come into direct contact with the products and technologies that comprise the Microsoft Private Cloud, including Microsoft System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

  
  

  We also offer a sneak peek into Windows Server 8 and the integration with System Center in the Private Cloud. Through hands-on labs and a live environment, gain an understanding of the Microsoft Private Cloud roadmap, and the knowledge to start turning your datacenter into a private cloud. All attendees need to provide their own laptop for the hands-on portion of the afternoon. Laptops should be Windows 7 machines, and have RDP installed. Sign up early for this in-depth, hands-on private cloud experience.

PRC04 | Using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012

• Code: PRC04
  Track: Management
  Audience: IT Professional
  Speaker: Johan Arwidmark, Kent Agerlund
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  Join Johan Arwidmark and Kent Agerlund, two of the world’s foremost Configuration Manager 2012 experts in a dazzling seminar on how to distribute software using Configuration Manager 2012. Learn about the new infrastructure changes in Configuration Manager 2012, how to upgrade from Configuration Manager 2007, and how deploy operating systems, applications and updates with Configuration Manager 2012. Kent and Johan share their notes from the field, and their tips & tricks for making software distribution using Configuration Manager 2012 even better. If you need to deploy software using Configuration Manager 2012, or are thinking about deploying it, this is the one seminar you cannot afford to miss.

  
  

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PRC05 | Microsoft SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization

• Code: PRC05
  Track: Database & Business Intelligence
  Audience: IT Professional
  Speaker: Denny Cherry, Thomas LaRock
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  In this session, learn about SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 performance tuning and optimization. Industry Experts Thomas LaRock and Denny Cherry guide you through tools and best practices for tuning queries and improving performance within Microsoft SQL Server. This session details real-life performance problems which have been gathered and tuned using industry standard best practices and real-world skills.

PRC06 | Using BISM Tabular in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2012

• Code: PRC06
  Track: Database & Business Intelligence
  Audience: IT Professional
  Speaker: Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  Microsoft SQL Server 2012 introduced new BI Services, like Power View and the BI Semantic Model (BISM) in Analysis Services, which offers two types of models, Tabular and Multidimensional. The Tabular model is required in order to publish data for Power View and it is based on concepts like tables and relationships that are familiar to anyone who has a relational database background.

  
  

  In this seminar, learn how to build a complete solution in Tabular, either by creating a new model from scratch or by importing an existing PowerPivot model. After an initial introduction of the overall architecture with the Microsoft platform, including SharePoint, PowerPivot and Power View, most of the time is dedicated to the definition of a BISM Tabular model. Learn about creating one from the ground up and then defining all the metadata required in order to obtain a rich semantic model that provides better user experience for data exploration in both Excel and Power View. You also learn the basics of DAX language and how to manage role based security and partitioning in a Tabular model.

  
  

  At the end of the day, you will be able to create your BISM Tabular models, fully exploiting the features available in a Corporate BI scenario. You will gain a solid background to enable you starting your next project with Tabular.

PRC08 | C++ in Visual Studio 11: Modern, Readable, Safe, Fast

• Code: PRC08
  Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks
  Audience: Developer
  Speaker: Kate Gregory
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  Whether you never used C++, or stopped using it a decade ago, you’re probably wondering what’s going on with C++ lately. It’s getting attention as a development language again, with a new standard release giving new keywords and new capabilities. C++ is a featured language for many of the new Microsoft technologies, and it enables some amazing speedups of your application using libraries like PPL and C++ AMP. What’s more, Visual Studio offers tools to native developers that have only been available for managed developers in earlier versions. This all-day seminar shows you what the fuss is about and gives you the skills you need to understand the advantages of C++ today, and start gaining those benefits for your application.

  
  

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PRC09 | Implementing Scrum Using Microsoft Visual Studio 11

• Code: PRC09
  Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks
  Audience: Developer
  Speaker: Richard Hundhausen
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  Heard of Scrum but haven’t taken the plunge yet? Doing Scrum, but not well? Mastered Scrum, but not sure how to integrate it with the Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management tools? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this seminar is for you. We spend the day understanding how Visual Studio now supports Scrum and in such a way that reduces waste and increases business value and product quality.

  
  

  This seminar is intended for any member of a software development team, manager, or product owner who is interested in adopting the Scrum framework and understanding how Visual Studio and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Scrum process template supports it. Entire teams are encouraged to attend and experience the seminar together. There will be plenty of time for questions and demonstrations, so bring your hardest Scrum or ALM puzzles to the seminar.

PRC10 | Real-World Cloud Computing on Windows Azure

• Code: PRC10
  Track: Windows Azure
  Audience: Developer
  Speaker: Danny Garber, Jamal Malik, Matt Long, Paul Stubbs, Pete Schnettler, Steve Fox
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  
  

  Cloud computing looks like the biggest change to hit our industry in many years. But taking advantage of this shift requires understanding this new approach and how to exploit it. Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform, which can be applied in many different ways to build next generation cloud-based solutions. This seminar drives beyond the basic platform guidance to discuss key design and development principles, lessons, and patterns that apply to building real-world cloud solutions. If you’ve started (or are about to start) your cloud development with Windows Azure, then you can’t miss this all-day, fast-paced seminar.

  
  

  Prerequisite: To optimize your time in this seminar, ensure you are familiar with the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit, which can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=8396

  
  

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