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100+ experts from the technology trenches will provide real-world solutions that address the technology
challenges of today and prepare you for the future.
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Kent
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Bill
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Itzik
Ben-Gan
Lee
Berg
Sander
Berkouwer
Robert
Boedigheimer
Jes
Borland
Adrian
Bowles
Michelle
Caldwell
Miguel
Castro
Denny
Cherry
Rick
Claus
Mike
Crowley
Paul
Cunningham
Patrick
Curran
Peter
Daalmans
Ben
Debow
Cathy
Dew
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Dhall
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Duthie
Dino
Esposito
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Grant
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Roland
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Richard
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Scot
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Michael Van
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Garth
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Steve
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Kelly
Tim
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Christopher
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Kevin
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Andy
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John
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Simon
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James
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10 Things You Need to Know About Azure IaaS
5 Ways to Cloud-Enable your IoT Devices with Microsoft Azure
Architect Like a Pro: How to Tweak Performance and Availability from Your Microsoft Azure VMs
Automate All Things with Azure Automation
Automating Azure Automation
Automating Azure with PowerShell: Beyond the Azure PowerShell Module
Azure Operational Insights for the System Center Operations Manager Administrator
Azure Site Recovery and Windows Azure Pack: Better Together
Azure VM Extensions Deep Dive
Cloud Spotting: Gaining Visibility into Your Private and Public Clouds
Deep Dive into Live Migration
Diving into Clustering Changes in Windows Server vNext
Extend Your Monitoring Capabilities with Azure Operational Insights
Hybrid Cloud for the Old-School Admin
Hybrid IT Is Calling You: Automate Your Data Center Builds
Hyper-V Performance and Dynamic Memory
Inside Azure Operational Insights
Managing Microsoft Azure IaaS with Windows PowerShell DSC
Microsoft Azure Active Directory for the Windows Server AD Administrator
Microsoft Azure Operational Insights: What’s It All About?
Notes from the Field: Implementing Windows Server 2012 R2 DirectAccess
Operations Manager/Operational Insights Evolution: Using Microsoft Solutions to Monitor the World
Running System Center Service Manager in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure
SCOM 2012: Monitor Your Monitor and Leave Murphy No Chance
Understanding the Cloud Landscape: Cloud for the Common IT Pro
VMware vSphere Best Practices
Wake Your Inner Dev: PowerShell Desired State Configuration Resource Creation
What’s New in Azure IaaS: A Server Hugger’s Perspective
What’s New in vSphere 6.0
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Full-Day Workshop: Building Blocks of Biml
Full-Day Workshop: Index Internals
Full-Day Workshop: Mastering T-SQL Querying Fundamentals
Full-Day Workshop: Query Performance Tuning Using Execution Plans in SQL Server
(Near) Zero-Downtime Upgrades
A Day in the Life of a Row: Internals Deep Dive
Anatomy of the DAX Query Plan
Attributes and Hierarchies in Analysis Services 2014
Azure Machine Learning for the Enterprise
Beautiful Queries
Benchmarking Your SQL Server Environment
Branching and Merging Database Code
Creating AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Azure
Creating AlwaysOn Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Read-Only Replicas
Designing an SSIS Framework
Designing Consolidated SQL Server Implementations
Developing Actionable Analytics for Mobile Devices
DevOps and Data Integration with SSIS
Diving Deeper into the Power BI Platform
ELT with Pig: Managing Data Transformations in “Load First” Environments
Evaluate Your Daily Checklist Against 100+ Instances of SQL Server While You Get a Cup of Coffee
Excel 2013 Tips and Tricks for Displaying a Multidimensional Cube
From Zero to AlwaysOn in About an Hour
Get Near Real-Time ETL with Service Broker
Hacking Into SQL Server Instances for Fun And Profit
Handle with Care: Virtual SQL Servers
Improving Database Restores with PowerShell
Intermediate T-SQL: Window Functions
Moving From Profiler to Extended Events
Overcoming Chartaphobia: Moving Your Organization Toward Interesting and Enlightening Data Visualization
Query Performance Tuning and Azure SQL Database
Scalable Application Design with Service Broker
Seek and You Shall Scan: What You Need to Know About These Access Methods
SQL Is Dead; Long Live SQL! Bring Order to Chaos with Hive and Hadoop
SQL Server for the Non-Database Administrator
SQL Server Internals and Architecture
Squeezing the Most Out of Row and Page Compression
Table Partitioning: The Secret Weapon for Your Big Data Problems
TempDB 101 Plus
The Database: The Elephant in the ALM Room
The Efficient DBA: Automating Your Job
The Scalable SQL Server Enterprise
Things You Should Never Do in Microsoft SQL Server
Top 10 DBA Mistakes in SQL Server
Turning Requirements Into a BI Prototype
Who Needs SSAS When You’ve Got SQL?
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Full-Day Workshop: Managing Identities with ASP.NET and OWIN
A Developer’s Guide to Web Images
A Security Tester’s Toolbox
Advanced Web APIs
An Introduction to Go for .NET Developers
Anatomy of a Web Request
AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC Playing Nice
ASP.NET Quick Wins: 20 Tips and Tricks to Shift Your Application into High Gear
Aurelia: Next-Generation Web Apps
Build Angular 2.0 Apps with Web Components and TypeScript
Building Cross-Platform Mobile Solutions Using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
Communicating with the Internet of Things
CQRS: A New Way of Building CRUD Applications
Creating Cross-Platform Games with Unity
Creating Modern Apps with Social Media
Creating Secure .NET Applications
CSS Best Practices, Style Guide, and Tips
Developing Real-Time Dashboards with Power BI APIs
End-to-End Dependency Injection and Writing Testable Software
Everything You Need to Know About SignalR
From Dull to Dazzling: How Visualization and InfoGraphics Enhance Data Comprehension
GPUs: Not Just for Graphics Anymore
Improving Web Performance
Improving Your Web Application Performance
Introduction to R for C# Programmers
JavaScript Patterns and Node Idioms
Making Software 10x Faster with Low-Level CPU Optimizations
Modern Data Applications with Entity Framework 7
No Slides, Just Code: Three JavaScript Frameworks You Can’t Miss
Rock Your Apps with 10 Things You Probably Aren’t Doing
Scalable SignalR Applications
Securing Your Apps with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
SOA, EDA, CQRS, ES, and Microservices: Decoding the Acronyms
Software Development Today: Domain and UX over Technology
Testing Your ASP.NET Web Apps
The Basics of Single-Page Applications: Concepts, Gotchas, and Things You Need to Know
The Goodness of Web Components NOW!
Use TypeScript to Tame JavaScript
Website Fuzziness
Why Using Bootstrap Will Make You a Happier ASP.NET MVC Developer
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Keynote: Office 365 Announcements
Full-Day Workshop: Building Applications for SharePoint and Office 365 with Modern Web Development
Full-Day Workshop: From the Ground to the Cloud with SharePoint & Business Intelligence
Full-Day Workshop: Managing Exchange Online and Exchange On-Premises Using PowerShell
Full-Day Workshop: Office 365: The 2015 Master Class
Ask the Exchange (and Office 365) Experts
Ask the SharePoint Experts
Automate Exchange Deployment Using System Center VMM
Azure Mobile Services
Building Modern Web Applications Using SharePoint “Microservices”
Classification and eDiscovery with Exchange and SharePoint 2013
Cloudbreaking: Business Intelligence Engineering for SharePoint and SharePoint Online
Cool Dashboards, Charts, and Visualizations for Power Users
Create an Actionable SharePoint Search Center
Customizing Beyond Publishing in SharePoint 2013
Database Availability Group Management Tips and Tricks
Defining Your Taxonomy and Information Management Strategy
End-To-End Exchange 2013 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Enhancing SharePoint Search with JavaScript
Exchange 2013 Site Resiliency: With or Without Azure
Exchange Data Protection: Backups and Native Data Protection
Exchange Migration Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Exchange Online Protection In-Depth
Exchange State of the World
Future-Proof Your SharePoint Investment with No-Code Solutions for On-Premises and SharePoint Online
Governance Strategies for SharePoint 2013
How to Automate Yourself to a Well-Deserved Vacation
How to Secure Your Data in Office 365 and Beyond
Identity Management in a Cloud-Connected (Microsoft) World
Load-Balancing Exchange 2016
Managed Availability: What’s in It for You?
Managing Exchange 2016
Managing Exchange with PowerShell Desired State Configuration
Mobile Device Management with Exchange ActiveSync and Office 365
Office 365 Announcements
Office 365 Gotchas
Office 365 Groups: What You Need to Know (the Exchange Perspective)
Office 365 Mobile Device Management: What Is It and Why Do I Care?
Office 365 Portals: A New Way to Work
Power Up Your Project Sites: The New Way to Build Collaborative Applications with SharePoint & SharePoint Online
Reusable Forms and Workflow for SharePoint and SharePoint Online
Stop Working for SharePoint and Make It Work for You!
Storage Configuration Options for Exchange 2013
Synchronize SQL Data Across Boundaries
Techniques for Getting Your Requirements Right for SharePoint vNext
Telnet for the Modern Exchange Administrator
The Evolution of SharePoint and SharePoint 2016
Top Ten Office 365 Administration Tasks to Ensure Success
User Experience Tools and Methods for SharePoint
Using Graph Query Language with SharePoint Online
Women in SharePoint
Writing Client-Side Applications with Office 365 APIs
Yammer Sustainment: Evaluate, Adopt, and Iterate
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Full-Day Workshop: A Million and One Server Migrations: Points to Ponder
Full-Day Workshop: The Deep Dark Secrets of Software Update Management in Configuration Manager 2012
Advanced SSRS Reports for Configuration Manager 2012 Admins
Advanced User Profile Management in Windows
Arming Your Mobile Workforce Warriors for the 21st Century
Ask Me Anything About Licensing Microsoft People-Centric IT
Building a System Center Configuration Manager Client-Monitoring Solution in 60 Minutes
Championing PowerShell: Create Experts at Your Company
Configuration Manager: Getting to 100% Client Deployment Now and Forever
Data Mining in Configuration Manager 2012 and SQL Server Refresher
Enabling Your Active Directory to Embrace Windows 10
End the Systems Management Lies: How to Get the Real Numbers and Make Informed Decisions
Get Started with Configuration Manager and PowerShell
How to Extend the App Model to Support Your User-Centric XenDesktop in the Data Center
Inside the Windows 10 ADK
Introduction to Hybrid Identity Management
Intune, Configuration Manager, or Both (Hybrid): Choose the Right Tool for the Job
Just Enough Explanation of Windows’ New “Just Enough Administration” (JEA) Tool
Malware Hunting with the Sysinternals Tools
Managing Microsoft and Third-Party Updates with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: 10 Minutes Is All It Takes
Managing Modern Devices with Microsoft EMS
Mastering Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Reporting
Preparing for a Faster Microsoft OS Release Cycle
Securely Delivering Traditional Windows File Server Home Folders to BYOD Devices
Sysinternals: What’s New?
Understanding Configuration Manager SQL Replication Concepts
Underutilized Configuration Manager Features
Upgrading to Windows 10
What’s New in Windows Server vNext
What’s Coming in Configuration Manager vNext
Why Your Company Needs a Cloud-Based Identity
WIMBoot Revisited: Deploying Windows 10 to Devices with Small Disks
Windows 10: Join the Cloud!
Windows Packagers Forecast: DevOps Winds Are Blowing
Windows Server vNext BranchCache and Deduplication Deep Dive
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Please bring along a sweater or jacket, as the ballrooms can get cool with the
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The ARIA Resort is located just 15 minutes from the Las Vegas McCarran Airport. We’ve partnered with LASxpress to provide cost-effective transportation
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By utilizing this service, you are eligible for $11 one-way airport transportation
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• 40% Savings vs. Taxi Fare
• Immediate Boarding
• Airport Meet and Greet Service
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