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• Session 1 – Deploying Web Apps at the speed of your Thinking – 6.44 (no of participants-462)
• Session 2 – SharePoint 2010 Workflows – 7.21 (no of participants-244)

Overall average for the Tech-Ed India event was 7.13

Thanks a lot for the people who joined with me for those 02 sessions and really appreciated your feedback.

Hope to do couple more great session in year 2011.

It’s always good to be inside Microsoft Campus and we had 108 attendees inside that big MPR. We had good session lineup which covered Word, PowerPoint, Excel and SharePoint 2010. I didn’t know that people will turn-up for a full day event on a Saturday for Office launch. But this shows how well Office product is becoming most popular product around the world.

We see lot of organizations who do consulting on SharePoint, they have their web site running on either open source or any other technology. But we decided to set an example to our customers and partners by hosting our site with the technology we promote. We have our global site running on top of SharePoint Server 2010 and this exercise was started when the product was in beta.

I’m glad that now I have a real-life example to show to all my students apart from Microsoft SharePoint site. My salute to our IT Support team for their great effort.

Introduction of new Video ContentType, Audio ContentType and Image ContentType was a great investment in the area of Digital Asset Support in SharePoint server 2010. Introduction of Silverlight media player and ability to seek, cache and progressive download was the biggest investment in the area of Digital Asset Support.

To have all the above mentioned features, the minimum requirement is installation and configuration of IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling. Though BLOB Cache and Silverlight is not mandatory to have, IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling is compulsory to provide Digital Asset Support in SharePoint Server 2010.

Great, how do we install and configure IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling?

I found following blog post was really interesting and descriptive enough for anyone to get a clear picture about this:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/148/bit-rate-throttling-configuration-walkthrough/

Following are the minimum software requirements for installing SharePoint Server 2010:

• SharePoint Server 2010 is 62-bit only – we will not get a 32-bit version of SharePoint Server like the previous version.
• Windows Server 2008 with SP 2 64-bit or Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit – SharePoint Server 2010 will not support Windows Server 2003. We need the 2008 version of the Windows Server for installing SharePoint Server 2010. Anyway, R2 of Windows Server 2008 will come only in form of 64-bit and that helps us to make the right choice.
• SQL Server 2005/ 2008/ 2008 R2 64-bit – we can use any of the versions listed above as the database server and it should be the 64-bit. If we are going to use SQL Server 2005, we need to make we apply the SP3 and the CU3 (Cumulative Update) or whichever latest. If its 2008, we need to apply SP1 and the CU2 or whichever latest. If its 2008 R2, we don’t have to apply any other things on top of that.

Minimum Software Requirements for SharePoint Server 2010

I was lucky to get 02 break-out sessions, one in Web Development track and the other in SharePoint Development track.

There were more than 2,000 attendees and it was very exciting to see all of them in a big hall waiting for Visual Studio 2010 launch. We were lucky to launch the Visual Studio 2010 before all others around the world due to our time-zone. Mr. Somasegar along with few other guest launched Visual Studio 2010 during Tech-Ed India 2010.

Talking about my sessions, this is was the largest crowd, venue I have addressed. My 1^st session was in Day 1 and it was in a very very big hall with 7 big projector screens. There were more than 500 people in the session and it was very interactive though it was the last session in Day 1.

My 2^nd session was in Day 3 and it was about SharePoint Workflows. Though that was not such a big hall like the previous one, I had a room-full crowd for the session. Some people were even ready to scarify few minutes from their lunch to stay back and discuss some of the questions/ doubts regarding the technology.

This was my 1^st Tech-Ed experience in India and I will be definitely doing better in 2011.

My special thanks to Rushabh Mehta and  Pinal Dave for encouraging me all the time and very special thanks to Vinod Kumar and Harish Ranganathan for the opportunity to given to present in Tech-Ed India.

Keynote

Soma @ Keynote

Soma Announcing Visual Studio 2010

Demo of Visual Studio 2010

Demo of Visual Studio 2010

Kamal Announcing SQL Server 2008 R2

Me, Harish and Vinod

Microsoft Tech-Ed India 2010 is considered as the major Technology event of the year for various IT Professionals and Developers. This year Tech-Ed is very important and remarkable because we are going to launch Visual Studio 2010 during the event. This event will feature a comprehensive forum in order to learn, connect, explore, and evolve the current technologies we have today.

What I heard during the 2^nd week of March that they had more than 2500 registrations and they closed the registration in the last week of March. It shows how people are looking forward for this event and above all this is happening in the IT Hub in India-Bangalore.

I’m very much pleased to announce that I’m presenting at the Tech-Ed and I encourage attending both the sessions. Following are the sessions I have aligned for you:

Session 1: Deploying web apps at the speed of your thinking
Date: 12^th April                  Time: 05.00pm – 06.00pm

Visual Studio 2010 offers web deployment as an easy walk-through. With its one click deployment model, deploying your applications becomes a seamless experience. Walk into this session where we will take a pretty big application and get it deployed with all the dependent stuff easily, using Visual Studio 2010.

Session 2: SharePoint 2010 Workflows
Date: 14^th April                  Time: 12.30pm – 01.30pm

Workflow in SharePoint 2010 has been revamped with a new designer for building both reusable workflows and list based workflows. Forms and Workflows are important for automating business processes. Organizations usually rely on software developers to create these workflows using code. Not anymore! With SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create powerful data driven form composite solutions on your SharePoint sites. SharePoint Designer’s workflows let you design powerful multi-step workflows centered around the form collected data, building upon the out-of-the-box reusable workflows and even import workflow designs from Visio! In this presentation, you will see how these tools come together to design workflows and route forms across your organization for task assignment and approval, and also how you can reuse your workflows in other lists and libraries on your site and how to prototype workflows in SharePoint Designer for further development in Visual Studio 2010.

Come and join with me for this big, challenging event and let’s Learn, Connect, Explore what’s going to come in this year 2010.

This is my 2nd Tech-Ed speaking engagement in year 2010.

Though it’s kind of holiday season there was an average crowd and it was very interactive session too. Lot of guys were impressed about this new feature and there were lot queries about the technology.

I covered all the aspect of this new “Data-Tier Application Project in Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2” and planning to talk about it again when the final release available for the public.

If you are interested about the PPT deck here it is for your further reference.

I visited 06 cities and conducted 01 SharePoint 2010 training and 05 SQL Server 2008 R2 trainings. I visited Kolkata, Pune, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Chennai.

India Trip March