Tech Days online 5th of February 2015 3 days of online training

An overview of the sessions for Day 1 of Tech.Days Online 2015 and how to make the most of your participation using the online chat tool to interact with our experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you.

Ed is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in Infrastructure. His role is to engage with the technical community on anything Microsoft.

So what is EMS? The Enterprise Mobility Suite is the comprehensive cloud solution to address your consumerization of IT, BYOD, and SaaS challenges. The suite is the most cost effective way to acquire all of the included cloud services: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium; Windows Intune; Microsoft Azure Rights Management. We will help you to understand what EMS is! and help you keep your end users productive, Help with data protection and compliance, Unify user and device management and enable you to understand why EMS is a perfect solution for you and your business.

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Andrew Bettany is recognised for his Windows expertise since 2012, and a member of the Microsoft Springboard Technical Expert Panel. As leader of the IT Academy at the University of York, UK and Microsoft Certified Trainer, Andrew delivers learning and consultancy to businesses on a number of technical areas including Windows deployment and troubleshooting.

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Windows 10 is putting a huge focus on productivity and desktop. In this session the Windows User Group will show you the new tools and features that will help make you more productive, demonstrating key features and discussing what we know about the most significant change to come to the Windows desktop for many years.

It’s not your mother’s – or Bill Gates’ Microsoft any more. Join ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley -- who has covered Microsoft for more than 30 years as an independent technology journalist -- to hear her perspective on what’s changed and what’s to come. Foley will touch on the latest hot buttons, ranging from universal apps and “One Windows,” to what to expect on the productivity and cloud services front. Foley will be just back from the latest Windows 10 reveal event in Redmond, so will have lots to say about where Microsoft is going on the operating systems and apps/services front in 2015 and beyond.

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for more than 30 years for a variety of publications and Web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts, speaking about all things Microsoft-related. On ZDNet, she blogs at allaboutmicrosoft.com. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Foley also is the co-host of the Windows Weekly podcast on the TWiT network.

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Richard has a background in delivering public facing web applications in a variety of market sectors, including banking and healthcare. He is passionate about making software development productive, efficient and fun. He strives to automate processes and utilise frameworks to shortcut development timescales. His expertise is in C#, ASP.NET, MVC and Node.js.

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Windows Server Engineer and Architect for a privately owned company in London, focusing on Directory Services and the Windows Server platform.

Azure Active Directory has matured and expanded rapidly from its humble beginnings within Office 365. Find out how the current range of services can simplify, accelerate and expand the way you control access to applications and services inside and outside your organisation.

Rik is the IT Director at Black Marble. His role includes delivering robust IT solutions to both his own organisation and its customers, which can take in a broad spectrum of technologies. An enthusiastic technology evangelist, Rik is a regular presenter at events in the UK and Ireland. Along with friends and colleagues he has been involved in the DDDNorth community event since its inception. He is a member of the BCS, a Chartered IT Professional and a certified Scrum Master.

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Steve Beaumont is an IT Pro clocking up over 15 years of experience ranging from low end system building to managing a crack team of enterprise class support specialists to now providing consultancy and designs for System Center as Technical Director for PowerONPlatforms. Steve is also a co-author of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager and Orchestrator Cookbooks, blogger and active within the Microsoft community.

A summary of what has been covered so far in Tech.Days Online 2015, confirmation of any competition winners and a preview of the evening sessions on Office 365

Ed is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in Infrastructure. His role is to engage with the technical community on anything Microsoft.

Kamil is Microsoft SharePoint specialist, architect and trainer. SharePoint Server MVP since 2006. Took part in dozens of projects targeted at Microsoft SharePoint platform implementation. In recent years his main role was the design and implementation of SharePoint enterprise farms at large customers requiring solutions with high availability and performance. He’s also conducting technical audits, evangelizing SharePoint platform, focusing on cloud services and leading training courses.

A summary of what has been covered in the Office 365 evening sessions and where to get more information about the Office 3654 products covered

Ed is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in Infrastructure. His role is to engage with the technical community on anything Microsoft.

An overview of the sessions for Day 1 of Tech.Days Online 2015 and how to make the most of your participation using the online chat tool to interact with our experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you. experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you.make the most of your participation using the online chat tool to interact with our experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you.

Andrew is a technical evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in data management, manageability and security.

Gordon is a Microsoft System Center Cloud and Datacenter MVP with over 15 years of experience in the Windows Management space. Currently, he helps run Microsoft Gold Systems Management and Virtualisation, Desktop and Devices and Azure Circle partner Inframon who specialise in Microsoft System Center and Azure. He is a renowned speaker on the System Center circuit with regular sessions at TechEd in the UK and the US as well as MMS, WPC and many other partner, customer and community events.

Samuel Erskine, (IT Driving Fellow), is an independent IT consultant specializing in Service Manager and Configuration Manager. He is the lead author of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook (Packt, 2012), and Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook (Packt, 2013), and a contributing author to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed and co-author of the System Center 2012 Service Manager Unleashed. With over 18 years of IT experience, he focuses on providing training and consultancy services in the United Kingdom and other locations and blogs at www.itprocessed.com.

Jonathan works in the IT department at Newcastle University in North East England where he dived straight into a large-scale migration from NT4 and Netware to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. With tens of thousands of user accounts, thousands of desktops and hundreds of servers in the remit of his department (in Newcastle and branch campuses is Malaysia and Singapore), Jonathan has been automating Windows for many years, initially via batch and vbscript, and then PowerShell came along and changed his world.

Boris has deep grounded field knowledge the Cloud, OpenSource and virtualisation. Working as a Director of Global services for Nebula, Inc, he was part of the team that co-founded the OpenStack project with NASA employees. Boris also worked as a Sales Engineering manager for EMEA at Red Hat, dealing with early adoption of Linux in large organisations and the rise of virtualisation stacks. He then served as a Global Sales Engineering manager dealing with new Cloud technologies (Eucalyptus) at Canonical – the company behind Ubuntu Linux - leading a team to bundle the first version of OpenStack within the public software repository. Today Boris is spearheading the Openness efforts of Microsoft in the United Kingdom.

Tarun Arora is a passionate technologist with 7 years of industry experience delivering enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Platform. His specialisms are application lifecycle management, onshore/offshore delivery, systems integration and custom application development. Tarun is a subject matter expert in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Microsoft development tools (Visual Studio & Team Foundation Server) with a strong expertise in implementing & leading Waterfall / Agile based development processes supporting distributed teams on medium to large-scale .NET based enterprise projects.

Simon plays an active role in the MVP community and has five years experience as an MVP & Microsoft P-TSP in System Center Datacenter and Private Cloud. He presents at Ask the Expert sessions and regularly at MMS and TechEd events in US, Europe and Asia. Simon is also the owner and Founder of Cloud OS Community (http://www.cloudoscommunity.com).

Jeffrey leads the creation, evangelisation and execution of the overall Windows Server and System Center technical strategy. He drove specific technical initiatives around the datacenter abstraction layer (DAL), modern cloud fabric, standards-based management and automation. He is also a technical advisor and approver of the Common Engineering Criteria program to deliver a common customer experience.

Andrew is a technical evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in data management, manageability and security.

An overview of the sessions for Day 3 of Tech.Days Online 2015 and how to make the most of your participation using the online chat tool to interact with our experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you.

Martin is a developer evangelist working with developers to help Microsoft deliver better tools, languages and products. He is a regular conference speaker and have spoken at FOWD (Future of Web Design), FOWA (Future of Web Applications), MIX Las Vegas, PHP London and Web Directions.

Mike's role as a developer evangelist involves understanding existing and new Microsoft developer technologies and working with UK developers and architects to inform them of where our languages, platforms and tools are heading and work with them on their applications. In terms of technologies, Mike's current focus is around development of WinRT applications for Windows/Phone making use of C#/XAML/.NET, HTML/JavaScript and C++ technology stacks.

In this session we will look at Visual Studio Release Management's vNext release pipeline seeing how it can leverage Desired State Configuration to provision environments and deploy applications.

Richard is Engineering Director at Black Marble where he is responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow the company, and its clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable's development activity is underpinned by Team System using Scrum as a process model. Richard is a Fellow of the British Computing Society and a Certified Scrum master. Richard is a Fellow of the British Computing Society and a Certified Scrum master.

Martin is a technical evangelist for Windows and Windows Phone apps and helps customers design and write them.

In this session Tomáš will be talking about the Microsoft .Net Compiler Platform (aka Roslyn) - You’ll see how to parse C# code and work with syntax trees. He will show you how to write your own diagnostics and refactoring features for Visual Studio, and at the end of the session will make changes to the Roslyn source code to extend the C# language with some custom features.

Pedro joins us from Norway to share has passion for well crafted software and agile development.

Linux is a first-class citizen in Azure and in this session we show you to create a web-based back end on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Linux/Apache Servers which are load-balanced and exposed to the Internet. You’ll understand how Azure can scale these services out and back simply to match the traffic and discuss the options for service management of the platform, including the node.js based cross-platform cli. Next we advance to the eradication of almost all service management activities and create a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Mobile Services back-end where the only thing you care about is writing the code and the operation of the underlying platform is done for you. We’ll cover how multiple client platforms such as Windows 8/8.1, iOS, JS/HTML, PhoneGap and Xamarin can be used to connect and we’ll demonstrate how to create an app that exploits the cloud platform running on Android.

Scott is an architect working on The Web Stack for Microsoft's AAPT (Azure Application Platform and Tools) group. He also manages community for ASP.NET/IIS/Azure and the Visual Studio Web SKUs.

A summary of what has been covered in Tech.Days Online 2015 Day 3 , confirmation of any competition winners and where to get more information on any of the topics covered during the day.

Martin is a developer evangelist working with developers to help Microsoft deliver better tools, languages and products. He is a regular conference speaker and have spoken at FOWD (Future of Web Design), FOWA (Future of Web Applications), MIX Las Vegas, PHP London and Web Directions.