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.