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November 12-17, 2017
Royal Pacific Resort at Universal, Orlando, FL
For IT Professionals
Track Key:
SQL Server Administration and Maintenance
Full Day Hands-On Labs
Security
Server / Datacenter
High-Value SharePoint Workloads: Social, Search, BI, Workflow, and Business Process Automation
ALM / DevOps
Workshops
SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization
The Real Cloud
SharePoint, Office 365 and the Cloud
Keynotes, General Sessions & Panels
BI, Big Data, Data Analytics, and Data Visualization
Infrastructure
IT Soft Skills
Fast Focus Sessions
SQL Server in the Cloud
Client
Information and Content Management: Documents, Records, and Web
Web Server
Cloud Computing
DevOps
SharePoint On-Premises Infrastructure Management and Administration
Native Client
SQL Server for Developers
Software Practices
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
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9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Experience New SQL Server Availability Options
Allan Hirt
9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux
Mike Danseglio
Avril Salter
9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Advanced Windows Troubleshooting for IT/Ops Pros
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Search Managers 101
Agnes Molnar
Monday, November 13, 2017
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Workshop: Add Intelligence to your Solutions with AI, Bots, and More
Brian Randell
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: The Secret Toolbox for Performance Tuning and Optimizing Queries
Pinal Dave
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Learn the latest and Greatest Updates to the Azure Platform IaaS and PaaS Services
Peter De Tender
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Windows Security - How I Do It!
Sami Laiho
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Configuring Hybrid Workloads for Office 365 & SharePoint
Matthew McDermott
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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TechMentor Keynote: How to Succeed In IT (Or At Least How I Succeeded in IT)
Mark Minasi
8:00am - 9:00am
Office & SharePoint Live! Keynote: Office 365 Intelligence Transforming Productivity
Yina Arenas
9:15am - 10:30am
Business Intelligence/Analytics in SQL Server 2016
Thomas LeBlanc
9:15am - 10:30am
Right Tool for the Right Job! Group Policy, SCCM, MDM, Azure AD, and More. Do Management Right!
Jeremy Moskowitz
9:15am - 10:30am
Secure Access Everywhere! Implementing DirectAccess with Windows Server 2016
Richard Hicks
9:15am - 10:30am
Learn What It Takes to Build a Cockpit Alike View for Monitoring all of Your Azure Resources
Peter De Tender
9:15am - 10:30am
"Quick Win" Features vs. Long Term Strategy in Search
Agnes Molnar
11:00am - 12:00pm
Live! 360 Keynote: Lessons Learned Doing DevOps at Microsoft at Scale
Buck Hodges
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Tactical DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services
Brian Randell
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Loading a Data Warehouse Using SSIS
Tim Mitchell
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Keepin' The Bad Guys Out of Windows 10 with Microsofts In-box (and third party) Tools
Jeremy Moskowitz
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Become a Windows Server 2016 Cluster Master in Five Easy Architectures
Greg Shields
1:30pm - 2:45pm
An Absolute Beginners Guide to Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
Dave Kawula
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Managing and Configuring Office 365 Identity
Scott Hoag
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Database Lifecycle Management and the SQL Server Database
Brian Randell
3:15pm - 4:30pm
SQL Server Analysis Service: Cube Versus Tabular
Thomas LeBlanc
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Advanced SSIS Package Authoring with Biml
Tim Mitchell
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Pitfalls and Problems: Windows 10 and Server 2016
Jeremy Moskowitz
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Hardware, Camtasia, and a Storyline: Creating Your Own User Training
Greg Shields
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Intelligent Insights and Collaboration in Office 365
Agnes Molnar
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Using Polybase to Analyze Data from Other Data Sources, Including Hadoop Data
Ginger Grant
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: A Brave New World - SQL Server on Linux
Joey D'Antoni
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Fast and Furious
Karen Lopez
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus New Ways to Install Windows 10 Without Imaging Is Task Sequence Dead
Petri Paavola
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Preparing for the Windows Server 2016 MCSA - The Expert Tips
Greg Shields
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus Mythbusters Windows Pagefile Settings
Sami Laiho
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: 5 Query Rules Every SharePoint Pro Should Know
Matthew McDermott
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Web Security 101
Brock Allen
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Exploring Microservices in a Microsoft Landscape
Marcel de Vries
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Introduction to Data Science with Azure ML
Bradley Ball
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch - How to Survive with Fast Release Cadence
Panu Saukko
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Recovering Your On-Premises Workloads to Azure in 20 Minutes with Nothing But Demos
Peter De Tender
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Mythbusters - Tweaking Windows Performance
Sami Laiho
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: The 5 PowerShell Tricks for SharePoint You NEED to Know
Ben Stegink
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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Overcoming the Challenges of Mobile Development in the Enterprise
Roy Cornelissen
8:00am - 9:15am
Power BI: What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Andrew Brust
8:00am - 9:15am
Azure SQL Database and the DBA
Grant Fritchey
8:00am - 9:15am
The Network is Slow! Or is it? Network Troubleshooting for Windows Administrators
Richard Hicks
8:00am - 9:15am
Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services for DSC Credential Encryption
Melissa Januszko
8:00am - 9:15am
Bypass Every Security Technology with Social Hacking: A Beginner's Toolkit
Dale Meredith
8:00am - 9:15am
What Every IT Pro Needs to Know About SharePoint On-Premises
Robert Bogue
9:30am - 10:45am
Graph DB Support in SQL Server 2017
Karen Lopez
9:30am - 10:45am
HA and DR in the Cloud--Building Robust SQL Server Solutions on Azure
Joey D'Antoni
9:30am - 10:45am
Intelligent DNS for Modern Networks: Introducing DNS Policies in Windows Server 2016
Richard Hicks
9:30am - 10:45am
Make Your PowerShell Scripts Bulletproof with Pester
Melissa Januszko
9:30am - 10:45am
Pen Testing with PowerShell: Cmdlets That'll Pwn Your Network
Dale Meredith
9:30am - 10:45am
What Every IT Pro Needs to Know About SharePoint Online
Robert Bogue
11:30am - 12:30pm
Live! 360 Panel: Industry Trends, Technology, and Your Career
Martin Leifker
Francois Charette
Matt Lockhart
Rockford Lhotka
2:00pm - 3:15pm
A/B Testing, Canary Releases and Dark Launching, Implementing Continuous Delivery on Azure
Marcel de Vries
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Creating a Release Pipeline with Team Services
Esteban Garcia
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Azure Functions Webhook Interface
Nick Zimmerman
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Big Data Technologies: What, Where and How to Run Them on Azure
Andrew Brust
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Automated Troubleshooting Techniques in Enterprise Domains
Petri Paavola
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Create a Customized Office 365 Software Deployment Package
John O'Neill Sr.
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Managing Office 365 Groups in Office 365
Scott Hoag
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Lock the Doors, Secure the Valuables, and Set the Alarm
Eric D. Boyd
4:00pm - 5:15pm
PowerApps, Flow, and Common Data Service: Empowering Businesses with the Microsoft Business Application Platform
Charles Sterling
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Data Lake Analytics with U-SQL
Ginger Grant
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Big Data Smorgasbord with R in Hadoop and SQL Server
Jen Stirrup
4:00pm - 5:15pm
How to Manage Windows 10 1709 Devices with System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch
Panu Saukko
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Putting the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit to Work
John O'Neill Sr.
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Controlling Your Azure Spend
Timothy Warner
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Upgrade to SharePoint 2016
Matthew McDermott
Thursday, November 16, 2017
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HTTP/2: What You Need to Know
Robert Boedigheimer
8:00am - 9:15am
Windows PowerShell Jumpstart for the SQL Server DBA
Edwin Sarmiento
8:00am - 9:15am
Introduction to Azure Data Factory
Tim Mitchell
8:00am - 9:15am
Fully Integrated Azure Resource Manager Deployments
Neil Peterson
8:00am - 9:15am
Keep Up with NOW! Automate Rebuilding Your (Home) Lab On Steroids
Sven van Rijen
8:00am - 9:15am
Regular Expressions Jump Start
Timothy Warner
9:30am - 10:45am
Devs vs. Ops: Making Friends with the Enemy
Damian Brady
9:30am - 10:45am
Upgrading to SQL Server 2016
Thomas LaRock
9:30am - 10:45am
A Database Designer's Favorite SQL Server Security & Privacy Features
Karen Lopez
9:30am - 10:45am
Automating Azure with PowerShell - Beyond the Azure PowerShell Module
Neil Peterson
9:30am - 10:45am
Weakest Link of Office 365 Security
Nestori Syynimaa
9:30am - 10:45am
Git and GitHub Jump Start
Timothy Warner
9:30am - 10:45am
Office 365 and Hybrid Solutions - What Works for My Organization
Scott Hoag
11:00am - 12:00pm
SQL Server Live! Panel: In with The New, And The Old Too: The Database New World Order
Ginger Grant
Thomas LaRock
Leonard Lobel
Karen Lopez
Jen Stirrup
Andrew Brust
11:00am - 12:00pm
TechMentor Panel: The Future of Windows Management
Sami Laiho
Jeffery Hicks
Petri Paavola
Panu Saukko
Dave Kawula
Jeremy Moskowitz
11:00am - 12:00pm
Office & SharePoint Panel: Adapting to & Embracing the Cloud First Office World
Andrew Connell
Brian Pendergrass
Scott Hoag
Paul Schaeflein
Julie Turner
Rob Windsor
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Continuous Integration and Delivery for Mobile Applications using VSTS
Kevin Ford
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Deploying Straight to Production: A Guide to the Holy Grail
Damian Brady
1:00pm - 2:15pm
T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to Kill Performance in One Easy Step
Hugo Kornelis
1:00pm - 2:15pm
SQL Server 2016 Database Administration for the Non-DBA
Denny Cherry
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Moving from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory Quick Wins and Common Challenges
Tarek Dawoud
Mark Morowczynski
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Nine O365 Security Issues Microsoft Probably Has Not Told You (and You Probably Don't Want to Know)
Nestori Syynimaa
1:00pm - 2:15pm
PowerShell Scripting Secrets
Jeffery Hicks
1:00pm - 2:15pm
All about PowerShell for SharePoint
Ben Stegink
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Application Insights: Measure Your Way to Success
Esteban Garcia
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Adaptive Query Processing
Hugo Kornelis
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Using SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Denny Cherry
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Deep Dive on SaaS Apps with Azure Active Directory
Tarek Dawoud
Mark Morowczynski
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Starting Your Own Gig: Three Steps to Launching Your Own Business
Nick Cavalancia
2:30pm - 3:45pm
In-Depth Introduction to Docker
Neil Peterson
2:30pm - 3:45pm
SharePoint Cloud Hybrid Search - A Field Guide to Effective Planning and Deployments
Brian Pendergrass
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? SQL Server Live Networking Event
Andrew Brust
Thomas LaRock
Karen Lopez
Bradley Ball
Denny Cherry
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? TechMentor Networking Event
Sami Laiho
Panu Saukko
Dave Kawula
Jeffery Hicks
Peter De Tender
Jeremy Moskowitz
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? Office & SharePoint Live! Networking Event
Andrew Connell
Scott Hoag
Brian Pendergrass
Paul Schaeflein
Julie Turner
Rob Windsor
Friday, November 17, 2017
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Workshop: Building, Running, & Continuously Deploying Microservices with Docker Containers on Azure
Marcel de Vries
René van Osnabrugge
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Database Administration for the Non Database Administrator
Denny Cherry
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Managing Windows 10 from the Cloud
Petri Paavola
Panu Saukko
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Advanced Desired State Configuration
Jeffery Hicks
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Deploying Office 365: Soup to Nuts
Ben Stegink
Scott Hoag