Swiss IT Professional and TechNet Blog : Microsoft Event

Shape – The Web Conference – 27 October 2009 Zurich

mepprecht — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:20:55 GMT

Everything you want to know about the latest Web Technologies.

27th October 2009, Swissôtel Zürich

This conference will show you in one day, the newest technology advances for Software and Web Developers, Web Architects, Web- and Interactive Designers, and now also Hosting Providers

One of the highlights of the event is the presentation of the Best of Swiss Silverlight Awards in the morning, plus the unique Podium discussion during lunch. With 2 parallel tracks, a Designer and Developer track in the morning, and a Developer and Hosting Provider Track in the afternoon, followed by a Networking-Apéro.

Shape ‘09 offers you the platform the see the most important technologies for the Internet, plus ideas and practical implementations and then you can network and discuss your ideas with your colleagues.

Microsoft Connection Days

mepprecht — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:46:55 GMT

At five locations in Switzerland from 28 September up to 8. October 2009, Microsoft Connection Days (ex Partner Days), an event for Partners and IT professionals will be held.

This year, Microsoft Partners and now IT Professionals will have the opportunity, under one roof, to network and make interesting contacts. Five IT professional topics will be available for you to obtain the latest information about cloud computing (key note), Windows 7, Office/Exchange 2010, Windows Server R2 and Hyper-V R2, SQL Server and Online Services (BPOS).

Tech-Ed Europe 2009 – Registration Open

mepprecht — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:04:13 GMT

9-13 November 2009, Berlin, Germany, Tech-Ed Europe 2009, will you be there?

This year, the Developer and IT Pro Tracks will be running side-by-side with a total of 19 tracks!

There are a limited number of tickets available at the early-bird price of € 995.-

Never been to Tech-Ed? It is the best time to go and get educated. 5 Days of learning and networking.

http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/

Swiss TechNet Event - System Center Update – What is new?

mepprecht — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:14:00 GMT

Covering all the Topics and New Features of the System Center Family of Products, plus interesting Ideas and Tips from Real-World Deployments be the Gust Presenter Markus Klein, Senior Microsoft Consultant, System Center

System Center Update – What is new?

Date:            Wednesday 03. June 2009
Time:         09:00 until 16:00
Language:   German

Location: Microsoft Switzerland, 8304 Wallisellen

Speakers: Walter Pitrof und Markus Klein

Registration, Agenda and further Information:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032406798&Culture=de-CH

TechNet Events Calendar: http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/server/de/events/default.mspx

Swiss TechDays 09 Screencasts Online

mepprecht — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:52:06 GMT

All screencasts for the TechDays 09 sessions are now online

For TechDays 09 Bern (German): http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/de/techdays/Presentations.aspx
For TechDays 09 Geneva (French): http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/fr/techdays/Presentations.aspx

The presentation slides are also available at the same URLs.

In order to view the sessions, Microsoft Silverlight must be installed.

TechNet Event - Deep Dive into the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for IT Professionals

mepprecht — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT

On Monday 11 May 2009, Markus Erlacher will be presenting a TechNet Deep Dive (Level 300) covering Windows 7.

Topics such as Deployment, Application Compatibility, Management and Security plus Enterprise Features like Branch Cache, Direct Access and Federated Search will be covered.

The differences between Beta and Release Candidate will also be shown.

Date: Monday, 11 May 2009
Time: 09:00 until 13:00
Language: German
Venue: Microsoft Schweiz (Zurich), Wallisellen 8304

Registration, Agenda and further information:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032412556&Culture=de-CH

Have you visited the Swiss TechNet IT Events Calendar yet??
http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/server/de/events/default.mspx

TechNet Event: Security under Windows with Forefront, Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7

mepprecht — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:44:35 GMT

Windows and Security are definitively not unknown word-pairs

With the Forefront Product family and Windows 7, you are fully armed to provide a secure Windows Desktop. This TechTalk will give the the information you need to be successful, without a lot of work, to develop and deploy you Business Security Policy and keep your desktops secure.

The focus will be on the following products:

Forefront Codename "Stirling"
Forefront Client Security v2
Forefront Threat Management Gateway
Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 SP2
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
Internet Explorer 8

Naturally, many demos will be shown

Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 9:00 – 16:00
Venue: Microsoft Schweiz GmbH, Richtistrasse 3, 8304 Wallisellen
Language: German
Target Audience: IT Specialists
Presenters: Dominik Zemp, Markus Erlacher

Registration and Agenda: www.microsoft.ch/it-events

TechDays 2009 – Have You Registered Yet?

mepprecht — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:30:00 GMT

Have you registered yet for the Swiss TechDays 2009? If not, you do not have much time left and space is running out!

1-2 April 2009 Geneva
8-9 April 2009 Bern

http://www.techdays.ch

For the IT Pro’s, Current and interesting topics like Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization, System Management, SQL Server, Access Control and ForeFront are covered by by both Microsoft and External Experts.

Business Intelligence Event - How to go from Data to Decisions

mepprecht — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:25:22 GMT

Business intelligence is even more important during these tough economic times. People have to make really important decisions and critical strategic moves.

In this one-day seminar, Rafal Lukawiecki aims to show IT Managers and BI practitioners how to improve decision making and getting the valuable business insight by using Microsoft solutions. This seminar will look at an end-to-end approach to building and delivering a Microsoft BI solution, from automated data integration and consolidation to delivering insight in reports, scorecards, and Excel. To make this seminar easier and more pleasant to follow we structured it so that the first half focuses on the goals of BI, performance management, and the knowledge worker. The second half will stress the underlying technologies and the development and deployment processes.

Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Time: 09:00 to 16:30
Language: English
Venue: Microsoft Switzerland (Zurich), Wallisellen 8304

Registration, agenda and more information:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032404905&Culture=en-us

Big OCS Roadshow with People from Microsoft

mepprecht — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:33:00 GMT

Unified. Now.

Increase productivity and unleash the true potential of your mobile workforce.

You and your colleagues are cordially invited to join us at the

Voice of Unified Communications Roadshow

Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 delivers the unified communications (UC) experience companies have been seeking. It empowers your distributed workforce with the flexibility necessary to access the people they need — when, where, and how they need them. Microsoft unified communications solutions help:

· Streamline communications.

· Enhance team collaboration and productivity.

· Reduce costs of audio conferencing.

· Decrease environmental impact by reducing unnecessary travel.

· Integrate with Exchange Voice Mail.

· Ensure compliance with data mandates.

With enterprise telephony (VoIP) and the integration of your telephony, voice mail, and e-mail infrastructures, your people can quickly and easily find the right person—and click to communicate from within everyday software applications and businesses processes. Please join us for this briefing on the business value, and costs savings realization for UC using the recent R2 release of Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007.

Zürich, March 9th, 2009, 9:00 – 16:30

Microsoft Schweiz GmbH
Richtistrasse 3
8304 Wallisellen
How to find

Geneva, March 10th, 2009, 9:00 – 16:30

Ramada Park Hôtel Genève Suisse
Avenue Louis-Casaï 75-77
CH - 1216 Geneve - Cointrin – Suisse
How to find

New TechNet Event Calendar Web Page

mepprecht — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:20:40 GMT

Microsoft Switzerland now has a new page to show the TechNet Events/Seminars.

http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/server/de/events/default.mspx

You now have an overview all off the Swiss TechNet events, including the Content, Session Description, Date and Venue. On each link from this page, you can get detailed information about each event, including detailed information and the Live-ID enabled registration link.

I hope to meet you are more of the TechNet events.

Technical Information on OCS 2007 R2

mepprecht — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:20:37 GMT

OCS 2007 R2 has been released and there are quite a few questions about Installation, Migration, Features and Functions. To help you get acquainted to the product, here are some links to the most important information needed:

OCS 2007 R2 downloads
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/bb629431.aspx

Getting Started with Office Communications Server 2007 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd441174(office.13).aspx

Capacity Planning
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425159(office.13).aspx

Supported Migration Paths and Coexistence Scenarios
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425356(office.13).aspx

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Deployment Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E5026127-101A-48D7-8683-C95F448329E3&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant Deployment Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8CA31B00-96F3-42D7-9863-C44673F9C720&displaylang=en

You can also attend one of the Microsoft Partner Tech@Night events in either Zurich or Luzern to get an impression of what is possible.

Swiss TechDays 2009 – Registration Open

mepprecht — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:06:27 GMT

The Web Site and Registration is now open for Swiss TechDays 2009. http://www.techdays.ch

In Bern (German and English), 8 and 9 April, there will be 5 tracks, role specific:

IT Pro’s (2 Tracks)
Development (2 Tracks)
Architecture (1 Track)

For the IT Pro’s, Current and interesting topics like Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization, System Management, SQL Server, Access Control, ForeFront are covered by by both Microsoft and External Experts.

In Geneva (French), 1 and 2 April, there will be 3 tracks, role specific:

IT Pro’s (1 Track).
Development ( Track)
Architecture (1 Track)

So, visit, http://www.techdays.ch and register now!

TechDays 2009 Switzerland - Save the dates

mepprecht — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:14:21 GMT

Microsoft's TechDays Switzerland, the premier event for IT Professionals, Developers and Architects, will be held on the following dates:

1-2 April 2009 Geneva (French)
8-9 April 2009 Bern (German and English)

Sessions, speakers and exact details will be published closer to the event.

TechDays will have distinctive tracks for IT Professionals, Developers and Architects, covering topics relevant their specific job roles.
Current and future technology will be presented from overviews to deeper technical content.

Don’t miss out, reserve the dates in your calendar!