Category: Events

Registration for Microsoft’s biggest technical event is now open.

• TechEd Europe 2013: Madrid, Spain, 25-28 June
• TechEd North America 2013: New Orleans, LA, June 3-6

Learn about the future of Microsoft’s products, solutions and services directly from the leaders with news, announcements, and demos.

Connect with Microsoft and industry thought leaders, and fellow attendees that share your technology interests and business challenges.

Explore in Hands-on Labs and Technical Learning Centers designed to give you practical experience with the latest tools and technologies.

Plan the features and architecture to support your product and business goals and to prepare your skills for the future

Attend technical sessions delivered by Microsoft engineers and industry experts

Early Bird Pricing is available for both events for registrations completed by March, 22.

And if you need to convince your boss to let you go, this time Microsoft has it all covered for you!

TechEd is for technology professionals involved in building, deploying or maintaining IT solutions using Microsoft technologies. TechEd Europe will offer four days of more than 1,000 education opportunities and hands-on training across the full range of Microsoft products and solutions. You will learn in-depth about the latest technology trends and how you can leverage these effectively in your business. TechEd is the forum to gain the expertise, connections, and insights that will help you get the most from your existing IT investments.

• Hear about the future of Microsoft’s products, technologies, solutions and services directly from Microsoft’s leaders with news, announcements, and demos
• Attend technical sessions delivered by Microsoft engineers and industry experts
• Participate in Hands-on Labs and Technical Learning Centers designed to give you practical experience with the latest tools and technologies
• Network with Microsoft and industry thought leaders, and fellow delegates that share your technology interests and business challenges. You will be able to talk directly with experts about your specific issues and get answers to your questions in real-time
• Plan the features and architecture to support your product and business goals and to prepare your skills for the future

TechEd offers over 400 breakout sessions spread across 12 tracks featuring diverse technologies at a level of detail unmatched in the industry – from understanding the latest business productivity solutions to diving deeper on Microsoft’s Cloud strategy.

TechEd also features over 250 self-paced labs created by product experts, and is an ideal place to pick up new ideas and skills to increase productivity and build better solutions.

Plus TechEd Europe offers an additional day of deep training via the pre-conference seminars happening on Monday, 25 June. These day-long sessions will enhance your learning experience through supplemental in-depth, comprehensive training. Take an accelerated path to the certifications and skills you need to increase your professional appeal and prepare to add new value in the real world, with an extended skill set you can put to use immediately.

Tech·Ed Europe returns to Berlin this year, the event will take place between 8 and 12 November. If you register by 5 July you can save €500.

Tech·Ed Europe is Microsoft’s premier technical education event providing the most comprehensive technical training on Microsoft’s suite of products, technologies, solutions and services. If you are a technology professional involved in building, deploying or maintaining IT solutions using Microsoft technologies, Tech·Ed Europe is the conference that will help you solve today’s real-world challenges and prepare you for tomorrow’s innovations. >> Learn more about Tech·Ed.

What you’ll get at this year’s event

• Hear about the future of Microsoft’s products, technologies, solutions and services directly from Microsoft’s leaders
• Choose from over 370 technical sessions delivered by Microsoft and industry experts
• Participate in more than 150 Hands-on Labs and Technical Learning Centres designed to give you practical experience with the latest tools and technologies
• Network with Microsoft and industry experts, and fellow delegates that share your technology interests and business challenges
• Plan the features and architecture to support your product and business goals and to prepare your skills for the future

“Couldn’t make it to all the sessions? Watch them online!”, this is the tagline for Microsoft Tech•Ed Online, a site with lots of video recordings from the technical sessions that took place on that event.

There is an entire track dedicated to Unified Communications, where, besides others, you can find these cool Exchange sessions from the Tech•Ed North America 2010 (there are lots more from previous events):

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Sizing and Performance – Get It Right the First Time
• Going Big! Deploying Large Mailboxes with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 without Breaking the Bank
• Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to Achieve Rich Coexistence with Exchange Online
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging in the Real World
• How Microsoft IT Implemented Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: High Availability Deep Dive
• Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: A Real-Life Implementation
• What’s New in Archiving, Retention, and Discovery in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 High Availability Design Considerations
• Upgrading from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007 to Exchange Server 2010: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1: An Overview of What’s Coming
• What You Need to Know about Exchange Web Services
• Deploying Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 

• TechNet Webcast: Addressing E-Mail Archiving and Retention with Exchange Server 2010 (Level 300)
  Start Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
  Presenter: Kamal Janardhan, Principal Program Manager, Exchange Mailbox, Microsoft Corporation
  Event Overview: As e-mail volume continues to grow, Microsoft recognizes users’ desires for an infinite inbox and IT administrators’ goals to preserve and discover these mailboxes in a cost-effective matter. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 introduces integrated archiving along with message retention and multi-mailbox discovery capabilities to help address these needs. In this webcast, we take a technical deep dive into e-mail archiving and retention in Exchange Server 2010, we demonstrate the archiving experience in Microsoft Office Outlook and Outlook Web Access (OWA) from the user and IT professional perspectives, and we demonstrate Exchange Management Console and Windows PowerShell. We also highlight the message retention capabilities using Move and Delete policies in Outlook, OWA, and Windows PowerShell.
• TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2010 Upgrade and Coexistence with Exchange Server 2007 and 2003 (Level 200)
  Start Date:Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
  Presenter: Harold Wong, Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
  Event Overview: In this webcast, we walk you through the process for introducing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 into an organization that already has Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2003. Learn the prerequisites, steps required, and the impact to client access for MAPI, Outlook Anywhere, Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access (OWA), ActiveSync, and POP/IMAP clients after the upgrade to Exchange Server 2010 has occurred.
• TechNet Webcast: Introducing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (Level 200)
  Start Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
  Presenter: Rand Morimoto, President, Convergent Computing
  Event Overview: In a time when your organization requires its communication tools to be cost-effective and flexible, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 enables you to achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that can simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for great business productivity. In this webcast, we introduce you to Exchange Server 2010 and we highlight and demonstrate key investments made in this latest release.