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Tech Ed: Connected Systems Infrastructure Track

rdias — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:13:00 GMT

The Connected Systems Infrastructure track is almost finalized (minor tweaks may occur btwn now and then) for Tech Ed 2005. We have an exceptional line-up of speakers. This year's event promises to give you the tools to build powerful connected systems on the Microsoft platform that can integrate with third party systems.

Track Abstract:

Connected Systems are becoming pervasive as a result of current economic and technological drivers for companies to be more agile, drive down costs, and integrate heterogeneous, globally dispersed systems. New applications no longer live in single process or machine silos. Applications need to be designed to be a part of a connected network of services to build systems that span multiple machines and reach beyond corporate firewalls. Also, in order to increase an organization's agility when responding to market and changing strategic requirements, the information flow between services that carry out these business operations must be streamlined.

The Connected Systems Infrastructure track is designed to help you understand how to design, implement, secure, deploy, and manage connected systems on the Microsoft platform for automating your companies information flow to achieve streamlined operations and greater levels of business agility. Architects, Developers, and IT Operators will learn about our existing and next generation distributed systems technologies for building Connected Systems covering the Windows Server System, Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework (ASP.NET, MSMQ, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, WSE), business process management with BizTalk Server, integration of IBM mainframe and midrange systems with Host Integration Server, integration of retail systems with Commerce Server, and our unified messaging infrastructure for Longhorn, Indigo.

Track Lineup:

The Distributed Systems Lineup using core .NET Framework technologies

Connected Systems technologies and the .NET Framework, When to use What? by Steve Swartz

Making sense of Web Services and Microsoft’s Roadmap by Rebecca Dias

Top ten hands-on tips and tricks for implementing ASP.NET Web Services by Tim Ewald

Introducing System.Transactions and new Features by Juval Lowy

Retry, Abort, Cancel? Appropriate Handling of Tx Failures in Connected Systems Application Code by Clemens Vasters

What's New for Web Services Developers in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 by John Bristowe

Not Really Complicated Asynchronous Messaging Techniques and Technologies by Clemens Vasters

Beyond the Wizards – A Practical Approach to Web Services Security with WSE by Michele Leroux Bustamante

What's new in Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0? by Mark Fussell

Optimizing Scalability, Performance and Availability with Systems Built on the .NET Framework by Ingo Rammer

Metadata Soup: Contracts, Models, and Types by Don Box

My Home is my Castle: Hosting Apps - Why you care about Threads, AppDomains, and Processes by Christian Weyer

Web Services Interoperability by Simon Guest

Versioning services and contracts on the .NET Framework by Don Smith

Advanced Serialization by Doug Purdy

Troubleshooting Connected Systems on the .NET Framework by Shy Cohen and Richard Turner

Designing Connected Applications with the .NET Framework and an eye on the future by Doug Purdy

Building Secure, Reliable, Transacted Communication on .NET today with an eye on the future by Steve Swartz

Programming with System.Net v2.0: API’s You Need to Quickly Build Robust Network Applications by Chad Mumford

Introduction to Web Services by Yasser Shohoud

And the Business Process Integration Lineup

Microsoft's Integration Technologies, When to use What? by Scott Woodgate

Expanding your .Net development portfolio with BizTalk Server by Aaron Skonnard

Advance Orchestration Designs Using BizTalk Server by Erik Leaseburg

Advanced Service Orientation in BizTalk Server by Yumay Chang

Integrating SharePoint Portal Server with BizTalk Server by Steve Resnick

Implementation of Common Integration Patterns with BizTalk Server by Mike Woods

What's New in BizTalk Server 2006 Runtime by Jeff Wierer

BizTalk Server 2006 Business Activity Monitoring by John Ballard and Zach Jason

Deploying, Managing and Monitoring BizTalk Server 2006 Solutions by Goutham Sukumar and Eddie Fusaro

Monitoring and Trouble Shooting BizTalk Server 2006 Solutions by Kris Shankar

BizTalk Server Security Revealed by Wayne Clark

Building and Maintaining a Performant and Healthy BizTalk Solution by Lee Graber

BizTalk Server Capacity Planning by Wayne Clark

Implementing A Rules Engine Solution using BizTalk Server by Jurgen Willis

Integration Points of Microsoft Business Solutions with BizTalk Server by Matt Milner

Strategies and Tactics for Interoperability Using BizTalk Server by Alex Cobb

Commerce Server 2006 & Beyond: In-Depth Look by Ryan Donovan

Connected Commerce: ERP & Trading Partner Integration with CS2006 & BTS2006 by Caesar Samsi

Securely & Reliably Deploying Connected Commerce Infrastructure by Max Akbar

Delivering Services Oriented Architectures for Distributed Host Systems by Paul Larsen

Identity Integration using Host Integration Server and BizTalk Server by Anil Balakrishna

Architecting Enterprise Integration Solutions using Host Integration Server 2006 by Paul Larsen

Indigo and Interop

rdias — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:24:00 GMT

Ari talks about the upcoming VSLive event.

Bill Gates talks about Microsoft's commitment to interop.

The reason I came to Microsoft becomes more of a reality with each passing day.

And Scott Woodgate will demo the powerf of our shipping platform at Tech Ed. The full track to be disclosed shortly.

Are you doing WSE work? Better start dialoging with Chris Keyser

rdias — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:18:00 GMT

Chris is doing a lot of real implementation work with WSE! He just started blogging, and his content is already intense. We have him slated for a formal article on MSDN for using SCT with virtual endpoints. In the meantime, he is seeding you with knowledge today. Get into the dialog.

What is the Dev Con?

rdias — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:11:00 GMT

XML and Web Services Technology to fill your head and possibly make it burst
1 track
1 room
1 chief ~~anta~~ protagonist - Chris Sells
16 speakers from across the industry
130 devs and architects working on XML or Web Services based solutions (If you are lucky and smart, that would include you, the attendee)

See you in Oregon!

P.S. Don't forget the 3 people helping to put this event together in their spare time --

THANK YOU Sarah Jamieson of Microsoft and Bill Williams of PluralSight! ;)-

I love Boston

rdias — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:31:00 GMT

Spent the day at Fidelity Investments listening and participating in a Web Services Summit. I tried my hardest to get out of it because I did not want to travel during Thanksgiving. The lady next to me on the plane had bronchitis. I felt bad for her. I would hate to be on a cross-country flight coughing the entire way... how miserable! May my Echinacea hold true.

The day went well; I was on a panel with Patrick Gannon, Chris Ferris, Ron Monzillo, and Mark Potts. It was very odd to have a panel before everyone speaks. Patrick spoke about the need for customers to be involved in the standardization process, Chris spoke on the WS-I basic profile, I did a talk on the big picture of Web services and making WS interoperability a reality, Ron spoke about Web services security, and Mark spoke on Web services management.

I disagree with both Mark and Gartner on one minor point. I believe there is still a marketplace for independent players in the Web services management arena independent of the platform and existing enterprise management players. My caveat& they players must verticalize! Cataloging, Model Views, and other Management functionality can be very industry centric. Most platform players will not verticalize to the extent necessary.

There were snow flurries this morning when I woke up. The sun was shining bright and the snow was coming down gently. It was quite beautiful. I went to dinner with Cezanne, Robin, Jen, and Kelly. It was excellent to see all of you. I enjoyed your company tremendously!

If you do not know Jenifer Riley, you should get to know her... well her art at least! She produces images that evoke harmonic light. I am asking her to make me a sun for my home in Seattle. As a native Californian, I have a hard time living without lots of sunshine ;). Kelly brought photos of her art. His art is also phenomenal. I already own a piece of his, a period piece, the Big Dig and the Suspension Bridge before they were complete. I miss Boston, my old neighbors, the romanticism of the first snow fall, breakfast at On the Park, and fresh pasta in the North End.

On to Reston tomorrow...

Web Services Enhancements Engineering Lead is now Blogging

rdias — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:31:00 GMT

The man behind the magic curtain, Hervey Wilson, is now speaking on a public forum... Here is the rss feed. Check out his demo code on Secure Conversation and trust .