Microsoft kicks off the TechEd North America 2013 conference with the opening keynote, presented by Brad Anderson, at 8:30am CT, and we'll be live blogging the announcements for everyone.
Until then, we are being entertained by a popular New Orleans Jazz band (whose name we missed). They sound really good (and much better than the piped in sugary sweet pop version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" that was playing earlier!
Stay tuned for further updates!
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The live music is really good - and a nice touch, better than a DJ or piped in overhead music.
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WiFi and 4G are both spotty... We hope we can provide the liveblog once everyone gets here. :(
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The event is starting with a short video of Brad Anderson and other MS employees -- in a Mission Impossible style movie setting.
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A spy is thwarted by Microsoft technology. Brad: "Keep it, you'll never crack it." and he takes his sunglasses from the spy and switches back into his polo shirt. NIcely done. lol
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Roadmap for the keynote: Devices, then services to light up the devices, then innovations in Azure/Visual Studio that helps developers.
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And finally, the cloud platform itself - public, private, and hybrid cloud.
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Iain McDonald Partner Director of Program Management, - Windows Core group
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"There's people who don't like what we've taken out of Windows, and now people mad that we're putting things back in." -> I wonder what he's talking about
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Using ScreenBeam Wireless Display to show the display. Interesting tech, haven't seen it before.
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Has a passive NFC tag on it, touched his Surface to it, and add device will apparently come up soon... Maybe... Gotta love live demos ;)
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Trying to tag it again and it worked. He went into the Win8 mail app, and in 8.1 shows that you can open two docs side by side.
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Selected the boarding pass, selected "print" and it's going to print on the printer... Again, maybe. :D
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America has cheap WiFi compared to the rest of the world? Interesting.
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Windows 8 improves security - modern access control, malware resistance, secure corporate data - Trustworthy hardware.
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He won't promise hack-proof computer - good! - but is talking about switching from defense to offense. Security is important and must be added into your view of the world.
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Showing some new hardware now. First up - the Panasonic Magic Board. 20" LCD display tablet.
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Held up the tablet, Balmer's face was on it, and he said, "Windows windows windows!" Then said he needs to get a new job because he won't be around lol
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Lenovo laptop with a hinge called "rip and flip," with TPM chip, and an i5 processor.
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Acer Icona w3 -- 8.1" tablet with home/student version of Office. Atom processor. Looks tiny. Full sized keyboard dock.
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Interesting that Microsoft is focusing on their OEM partners over their own Surface tablet.
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Unifying the environment - your data follows your PC. He made himself a hero to his kids by not having to mail them docs when at a friend's house.
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265 billion authentications in Azure Active Directory. More than 9000 requests per SECOND with Azure AD. 420,000 unique domains inside Azure.
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Have now built SCCM into Windows Intune. Lets you manage the devices where they live. As long as the device has access to the Internet (what doesn't?), you can now manage the devices from the internet.
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They talked about this a bit at MMS. Over 35,000 unique tenants using Intune for SCCM so far. Single pane of glass.
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Aston Martin has 41 countries, and many dealerships. How do you let users use their own PCs and devices?
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Windows Server 2012 R2, System CEnter 2012 R2, and Windows Intune announced (as we reported earlier today)
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You can tell she's not as good a speaker as Brad. Still better than I'd be tho ;)
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Registering the device with a service, typed in her corporate password, and it's now asking for phone factor authentication.
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Simply press the pound key when the phone call comes in, and it automatically joined her to the workplace.
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She can now go back to the workplace setting and turns on remote management -- allowing IT to push down applications and policies via Intune.
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This demo isn't going quite as well. WiFi not great in the conference hall. Typical.
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Basically it's a way for IT to manage BYOD -- if it works, that'll be awesome.
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HOw do you remove all of the work stuff from the device when a user leaves or you want to give it to your kids?
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Go to the "Workplace" section and unjoin the workgroup and turn off remote management.
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R2 releases: Empower people-centric IT, unify your environment, and protect your data.
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Rapid lifecycle, multi-device, any data, any size, and secure and available.
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Why is this important? Gives your employees in China direct access, as well as giving you the ability to offer China local currency, etc.
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Bert Craven, Enterprise Architect from easyJet. 4th largest airline in Europe, top 10 in the world. 60M passengers a year.
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easyJet apparently didn't have assigned seating. They needed to add that, so created a seating solution in Azure and blend the reservation and seating experience together.
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Seamless combination of the reservation system and the seating system.
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Showing a seating management portal on Azure. Admin can simply slide a slider across and it gives more power in Azure.
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Azure change: No longer charge for stopped VMs running in Azure. Big applause!
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Starting today, you stop a VM, you no longer get billed. Before you had to delete it.
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Credits: MSDN Professional - $50 credits/month, Premium=$100/month, Ultimate=$150/month
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Each developer on your team who has a license can get these rates and credits.
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Want to win an Aston Martin? Check out http://aka.ms/azurecontest for details
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Visual Studio 2013 and Team FOundations Server 2013 shipping later this year. June 26th is the public preview at BUILD.
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Continuous improvement without barriers -- getting developers from ideas to implementation to customers to feedback, back to idea.
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Demonstrating interesting Visual Studio features for agile development - including showing history of who did what when, a change indicator to identiy the last person who changed the code, and more. Interesting.
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Visual Studio 2013 has a new "cloud based load test service" - write your load test the way you always have, then in settings you can use "VS Team Foundation service"
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In 5 years, we'll have 10x the amount of data we have right now. Ouch.
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Unlock insights from any data - give easy access, powerful analytics, and complete data platform.
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Find, combine, and manage -> From theories, analyze and refine -> Take action and operationalize. "From data to insight"
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Geoflow in Excel looks amazing. Showing map of where everyone at TechEd is from.
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What about non structured data? Data Explorer in Excel lets you connect to all sorst of sources like Azure marketplace.
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Keeps tracks of steps so that it can be repeated as well -- nice demo!
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All of a sudden, NOLA lit up like a Christmas tree. Why?!?!? Zoomed in and all of the tweets were coming from the convention center - cool - but scary at the same time....
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Cloud innovation, dynamic application delivery - datacenter without boundaries (ie: Hybrid Cloud)
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Announcements: Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, preview on June 26th.
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Ties in with the MMS announcement: http://www.neowin.net/news/mic...t-project-to-help-shape-sdn
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Showing a demo on tiered storage - SSD for data that needs fast access, slow disk for that which doesn't. Coming to Windows Server 2012 R2
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Dedupe storage is an option now as well, and it provides even better performance.
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Hyper-V recovery manager - runs on Azure - and runs site to site (Azure manages/orchestrates, does NOT store the data!).
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Demo Day - where MS shows what they've been working on in 3 minute chunks. Interesting idea.
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And that wraps up the keynote. Thanks for reading, and if you have questions or anything you want us to dig into while we're here, let us know and we'll try to get them answered for you! Thanks!
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