Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for IT professionals. For five days, 5,000 IT professionals are learning how to architect, plan, deploy, manage and secure a connected enterprise from Microsoft experts and industry leaders.

Several folks from Exchange will be there presenting breakout sessions, interactive sessions and staffing the Ask the Experts area.  Here's a quick rundown of the Unified Communications sessions:

Date

Timeslot

Room

Code

Title

Session Type

Speaker(s)

11/3/2008

16:00 - 17:15

Room 116

UNC202

What's New in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Breakout

Eric Swift

11/3/2008

16:00 - 17:15

Room 111

UNC205

Exchange Online Administration and Management

Breakout

Rob Nichols

11/3/2008

17:45 - 19:00

Room 134

UNC08-IS

Q&A: E-Mail Retention with Exchange Hosted Archive

Interactive

Joel Soderberg

11/3/2008

17:45 - 19:00

Room 111

UNC201

What's New in mobility and web access with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Breakout

Brett Johnson

11/4/2008

09:00 - 10:15

Room 134

UNC06-IS

Q&A: Exchange Performance Demystified

Interactive

John Rodriguez

11/4/2008

09:00 - 10:15

Room 114

UNC301

Story so far...or what we've learnt from Office Communications Server Customers

Breakout

Sasa Juratovic

11/4/2008

10:45 - 12:00

Room 112

UNC303

Advanced Troubleshooting Strategies for Exchange Server 2007

Breakout

John Rodriguez

11/4/2008

12:20 - 13:10

Room 115

UNC01-PD

What's New in Office Communicator and Devices with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Demo

Anton Krantz; Avronil Bhattacharjee

11/4/2008

13:30 - 14:45

Room 123

UNC01-ILL

Data Protection Manager 2007 - Protecting Exchange Server

I.L.

Jason Buffington

11/4/2008

13:30 - 14:45

Room 134

UNC01-IS

Q&A : How do I deploy mobility and web access in OCS 2007 R2 ?

Interactive

Brett Johnson

11/4/2008

13:30 - 14:45

Room 117

UNC310

Make Outlook 2007 happy with Exchange 2007 Web Services

Breakout

Kevin Laahs

11/4/2008

15:15 - 16:30

Room 113

UNC311

Going Big! A Discussion on Deploying Large Mailboxes with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 without Breaking the Bank

Breakout

Ross Smith IV

11/4/2008

17:00 - 18:15

Room 134

UNC02-IS

Q&A: Troubleshooting Server Issues in Office Communications Server 2007

Interactive

Peter Schmatz

11/4/2008

17:00 - 18:15

Room 112

UNC304

Migrating to Exchange Server 2007

Breakout

Andrew Ehrensing

11/5/2008

09:00 - 10:15

Room 117

UNC305

Deploying and Migrating Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Breakout

Anand Lakshminarayanan; Peter Schmatz

11/5/2008

10:45 - 12:00

Room 133

UNC05-IS

Q&A: Migrating Domino and Groupwise to Exchange 2007

Interactive

Andrew Ehrensing

11/5/2008

10:45 - 12:00

Room 113

UNC204

Microsoft Voice Interoperability Strategy and what's new in R2

Breakout

Francois Doremieux; Jingyu Qiu

11/5/2008

12:20 - 13:10

Room 125

UNC02-PD

Protecting Exchange Data with Data Protection Manager

Demo

Ilse Van Criekinge

11/5/2008

13:30 - 14:45

Room 133

UNC10-IS

Q&A : Deploying and Migrating Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Interactive

Anand Lakshminarayanan; Peter Schmatz

11/5/2008

13:30 - 14:45

Auditorium

UNC306

High Availability in Exchange 2007 SP1, Part 1: Continuous Replication and Failover Clusters

Breakout

Scott Schnoll

11/5/2008

15:45 - 17:00

Room 123

UNC01-ILL

Data Protection Manager 2007 - Protecting Exchange Server

I.L.

Jason Buffington

11/5/2008

15:45 - 17:00

Room 113

UNC316

Microsoft OCS Direct SIP Interoperability with IP-PBX

Breakout

Francois Doremieux

11/5/2008

17:30 - 18:45

Room 113

UNC401

ESE Internals

Breakout

Ross Smith IV

11/6/2008

08:30 - 09:45

Room 132

UNC03-IS

Q&A: Exchange Server 2007 Continuous Replication Deep Dive

Interactive

Ross Smith IV

11/6/2008

08:30 - 09:45

Room 111

UNC203

What's New in Conferencing with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Breakout

Avronil Bhattacharjee; Renee Lo

11/6/2008

10:15 - 11:30

Room 132

UNC07-IS

Q&A : How do I connect my OCS with other voice and video systems ?

Interactive

Francois Doremieux; Jingyu Qiu

11/6/2008

10:15 - 11:30

Room 121

UNC302

Coexistence and Migration with Exchange Online

Breakout

Erik Ashby

11/6/2008

13:00 - 14:15

Room 132

UNC09-IS

Q&A: Migrating to Exchange Online

Interactive

Erik Ashby

11/6/2008

13:00 - 14:15

Room 112

UNC308

Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging Component Description and Conceptual Overview

Breakout

Martin Sherred

11/6/2008

14:40 - 15:55

Auditorium

UNC312

What's New in Voice with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Breakout

Mahendra Sekaran

11/6/2008

16:20 - 17:35

Room 117

UNC307

High Availability in Exchange 2007 SP1, Part 2: Disaster Recovery and Site Resilience (SCR deep dive)

Breakout

Scott Schnoll

11/6/2008

18:00 - 19:15

Room 121

UNC318

Dell Global Services - Reducing Complexity and Cost of Exchange Storage

Breakout

Dee Chury; Dustin Johnson

11/7/2008

09:00 - 10:15

Room 115

UNC309

Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging Scaling and Performance Considerations

Breakout

Martin Sherred

11/7/2008

09:00 - 10:15

Room 112

UNC315

Certificates and Exchange 2007: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Breakout

Ilse Van Criekinge

11/7/2008

10:45 - 12:00

Room 112

UNC317

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Hyper-V

Breakout

Scott Schnoll

11/7/2008

12:20 - 13:10

Room 111

UNC03-PD

Benefits of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in the daily business

Demo

Damien Caro

11/7/2008

13:30 - 14:45

Room 113

UNC313

Exchange Server 2007 CAS\HUB Deployment Scaling and Testing

Breakout

Bill Thompson

11/7/2008

15:15 - 16:30

Room 113

UNC314

Planning and Deploying Group Chat with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Breakout

Ken Ewert

If you happen to be attending Tech·Ed EMEA 2008, drop by the Ask the Experts area and say Hello!

-The Exchange Team