It looks like I am going to be catching TechEd 2006 in both Australia and New Zealand this year which means I need to carefully plan what I want to see. Michael Kleef has posted up the nearly complete session list and I decided that I would start building my not-so-short-list of what I am planning on catching. So here it is:

Architecture

  • What do architects do anyway?
  • Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Service-Oriented Architectures
  • Architecting Identity - The identity metasystem and Infocard
  • How to Get Your Grandmother Building Missile Defense Systems

Database and BI

  • Corporate Performance Management on the Microsoft Business
  • Intelligence Platform
  • An Inside Look At an Exciting New Addition to Visual Studio Team System (Part 1)

Windows Client

  • Developing Interactive Applications Using Windows Live Robots, Activities, and Alerts
  • (WinFX) Introduction to InfoCard

Developer Tools

  • Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - Applying Version Control, Work Item Tracking and Team Build to Your Software Development Project
  • Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server: Step-by-Step Migration and Adoption Planning
  • VSTS Performance Tools
  • Extending Team Foundation Server
  • Programming with Concurrency in .NET: Concepts, Patterns, and Best Practices.
  • Concurrent Development with Branching in Team Foundation Server
  • Using Web Services to Develop Applications for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Windows Server and Management

  • PowerShell: Next Generation Command Line Scripting

Messaging and Mobility

  • Exchange 2007 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Better Together
  • Mail That Speaks to You: Unified Messaging in Exchange 2007
    Exchange 2007 Web Services: 42 APIs is Not the Answer

Office System

  • Infrastructure Topics in SharePoint Products and Technologies: Administrative Architecture and Planning for Deployment
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007: Create and Customise SharePoint Web Sites and Build Workflow-Enabled Applications
  • Document and Records Management Using 2007 Microsoft Office Server and Client Technologies
  • Developing Workflows for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows SharePoint Services (version 3)
  • Microsoft Office Open XML Formats and Office Client Extensibility (COMBINED)
  • Enterprise Search Technical Drilldown in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Integrating Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Forms into Workflow Solutions and Business Processes
  • Microsoft Office Groove 2007: Enterprise Deployments

Security

  • Attacker trends and techniques: an update
  • Is That Application Really Safe?

Web Developer

  • Developing Data-Driven Web Applications with .NET Language Integrated Query
  • The Windows Live Platform: Build Applications That Have Access to 400 Million Address Books, and 13 Billion Contacts
  • Windows Live Search Macros – Build, Share, and Use Your Own Search Engine in Seconds
  • Introducing Microsoft Tools for Professional Designers: An Overview of Microsoft Expression
  • Extending Your Reach with Microsoft Gadgets
  • Expression Web Designer Overview

If I’m not going to your session and you think I should – post a comment and tell me why? This list obviously needs to be trimmed further.