Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar, and user group events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar:

MD

Microsoft PubSec Live - Win8 At Night: Bring your apps to life with tile and notifications
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 6:00 PM, Chevy Chase, MD
Tiles draw users back into your app by awakening your tile on the Start screen. Notifications delivered through the Windows Push Notification Service draw your users back into your app even when it's not running. In this session you will learn how to implement Tiles and Notifications and how to create tiles that let users personalize their Start screen by creating deep links to specific places within your app.

TechNet Events Presents - IT Camp: The Future of IT
Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:00 AM, Chevy Chase, MD
Mark your calendar, set up a reminder, and join us at our IT Camp as we further “The Future of IT” event series. We will begin with the essentials of Microsoft Hyper-V and advance to real-world topics on Hyper-V manager, virtual networks, processes and operations on virtual machines, etc. This is an exciting opportunity to learn Hyper-V with hands-on* experience and gain technical insights of the technology in a relative short period of time. For many It professionals, a TechNet event is also a gathering to connect with those with similar professional interests and grow the community. Come and take this important step to get started on becoming the next private cloud expert in your organization. Seating is limited so reserve your place now!

VS11 for Windows 8: Beyond Code: App Development for the Modern World
Thursday, June 07, 2012 6:00 PM, Chevy Chase, MD
Details to follow!

Online

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft IT Transactional SQL Replication Best Practices
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:30 AM, Online
Do your transactional SQL replication systems keep falling behind or breaking? If so, this webcast is for you. This webcast discusses the transactional replication best practices that have greatly improved stability, simplified management, and enhanced performance of replication environments throughout Microsoft IT.

Microsoft Developer Tools Webcast Series: Developer Desktop Asset Management
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 2:00 PM, n/a, Online
This webcast is intended for individuals who maintain System Center or some other asset management system and/or those responsible for license administration and compliance. It is a deeply technical webcast and will focus primarily on the MSDN Developer Desktop Inventory Kit, a resource dedicated to helping simplify the ongoing knowledge of what is installed on a developer’s machine, how to effectively manage those environments and how to know you are compliant and properly licensed. Attendees should be a mix of IT and Systems Administrators, Procurement & Licensing personnel, and Development managers & leads.

Building Metro style apps with XAML: What .NET developers need to know
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 2:00 PM, Online
If you are experienced with .NET or Silverlight and are already familiar with XAML, this session will teach you everything you need to know to create a Metro style app for Windows 8. This session will cover updates to familiar features and explore concepts that are new for Windows 8. This session will show you how to turn your XAML skills into money-making Metro style apps.

Microsoft Developer Tools Webcast Series: MSDN Administration via VLSC
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 2:00 PM, n/a, Online
This session is intended for individuals who work with developer licenses, procurement, Microsoft Agreements or Resellers and who would like to better understand the Visual Studio and MSDN Subscriptions licensing. During this webcast, we will demo the Microsoft Volume License Service Center web site, how to drill down to the MSDN licensing portion, assign licenses to users, help them register their MSDN subscriptions and generally how to manage those users. We will also highlight some new products and technologies that assist with these efforts, such as System Center’s Asset Inventory Service, the MSDN Developer Desktop Kit and some helpful process tools to make developer administration less painful and more efficient.

Azure Florida Association - Getting a Handle on Azure: Diagnostic & Management by Michael Wood
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:30 PM, , Online
05/30/2012 - 3PM ET - Online - *** THE MEETING HAS BEEN MOVED TO 3PM ET ***
Please register here to attend this meeting: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/513292550

Developing for the cloud does take a slightly different mindset. While most of your current skills with .NET will simply transfer to the cloud, there are some considerations when working with Microsoft Windows Azure. In this presentation we will talk about the basics of how to manage your Azure applications in the cloud beyond using the Portal website and how to determine what’s going on when things go wrong. We’ll cover using PowerShell and other command line tools, how the diagnostics manager works and how to get your performance/logging data out of the cloud.

Building Windows 8 Metro style UIs
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:00 PM, Online
Windows 8 introduces a new and ready-to-use set of user interface controls to help create beautiful Metro style apps quickly. Learn about these powerful and highly flexible controls and how to use them to implement the common patterns that deliver great Windows 8 Metro style apps.

PA

Philly Area SharePoint User Group
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:30 PM, Blue Bell, PA
Join us on May 30th, 2012 to learn about when and why to utilize remote BLOB storage as well as increasing user adoption of SharePoint.

Remote BLOB Storage
In this session you will learn about what Remote BLOB Storage is, and why you may want to start using it.

SharePoint Features That Help Promote User Adoption
By default, there are a multitude of features in SharePoint 2010 that are not enabled which enhance your SharePoint. We'll review how enabling these features will help to quickly provide value to your end users. They will find SharePoint easier to interact with and be more efficient in their work. they will find content faster and see how SharePoint coexists with other productivity tools. Consequently, they see the value, use it more, and that is when SharePoint really comes alive!

The meeting is free, but space is limited so REGISTER NOW!

An Evening with Scott Hanselman
Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:30 PM, Dresher, PA
Scott will present all things ASP.NET, MVC, IIS, Azure, .NET, and Visual Studio

TechNet Events Presents - IT Camp: The Future of IT
Thursday, June 07, 2012 9:00 AM, Malvern, PA
Mark your calendar, set up a reminder, and join us at our IT Camp as we further “The Future of IT” event series. We will begin with the essentials of Microsoft Hyper-V and advance to real-world topics on Hyper-V manager, virtual networks, processes and operations on virtual machines, etc. This is an exciting opportunity to learn Hyper-V with hands-on* experience and gain technical insights of the technology in a relative short period of time. For many It professionals, a TechNet event is also a gathering to connect with those with similar professional interests and grow the community. Come and take this important step to get started on becoming the next private cloud expert in your organization. Seating is limited so reserve your place now!

SQL Saturday #121
Saturday, June 09, 2012 7:00 AM, Malvern, PA
SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This is an all day event featuring approximately 35-40 sessions in DBA, Database development, Business Intelligence, and professional development. This event will be held Jun 9 2012 at 45 Liberty Blvd., Suite 210, Malvern, PA 19355.

VA

RADNUG May Meeting: Going beyond the Soft in Software: Programming with Kinect and .NET Gadgeteer
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 6:30 PM, Spotsylvania, VA
Rappahannock Developers .NET User Group's May meeting.

*SPECIAL 5th Tuesday Meeting*

Join Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie (aka Devhammer) for a tour of some of the fun new ways you can leverage your .NET coding skills to drive hardware. We’ll look at the Kinect SDK for Windows, as well as the .NET Micro Framework, and the brand-new .NET Gadgeteer open hardware specification, and how its modular architecture opens up the world of embedded device development and rapid prototyping to even those who’ve never held a soldering iron.
Learn about both fun and practical things you can do by adding a little spice of hardware to your software recipes in this demo-driven talk!

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Windows Azure Camp
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:00 AM, Reston, VA
1.The Azure Platform– An Overview- Let’s start off the day with a dive into Windows Azure. We’ll talk about what Windows Azure offers, from hosting applications to durable storage. We’ll look at Windows Azure roles types, hosting web applications and worker processes. We’ll also cover durable storage options, both traditional relational database that is offered as SQL Azure, or more cloud-centric offerings in Windows Azure Storage for files, semi-structured data, and queues.

2.Hands on @home with Azure- For this hands-on portion of the day, we’ll work on the @home with Windows Azure project (http://distributedcomputing.cloudapp.net). The @home project will give you a solid understanding of using Windows Azure in a project that contributes back to Stanford’s Folding@home distributed computing project. We’ll walk through the code, provisioning an account, and getting the application deployed and running.

3.Caching – A Scalable Middle Tier- Creating a stateless application is a difficult but fundamental aspect of building a scalable application in the cloud. In this session, we’ll talk about the Windows Azure Cache service and using it as a middle tier to maintain state and cache objects that can be shared by multiple instances.

4.SQL Azure, Data Sync, and Reporting- SQL Azure offers a scalable database as a service without having to configure and maintain hardware. We’ll look at the subtle differences between on premises SQL Server databases and SQL Azure, and how Data Sync can be used to synchronize data between multiple databases both in the cloud and on premises. We’ll also look at SQL Azure Reporting.

5.Windows 8 and Azure – Better Together- The consumer preview of Windows 8 is out, and it’s the perfect time to ramp up on developing native Metro-style applications. In this session, we’ll give an overview of Windows 8, and delivering a richer user experience by leveraging a cloud backend.

Richmond SharePoint User Group May Meeting
Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:00 PM, Glen Allen, VA
Topic: SharePoint 2010: Service Pack 1: Remote Blob Storage

There is a lot of information to consider in the new SP1 guidance, and no previous announcement from Microsoft highlights the need and importance for every organization to consider remote blob storage as an integral part of their ECM strategy. SP1 is just as much about intelligent content management as it is about the evolution of the backend storage architecture. In this session, we will be going over the requirements necessary to support large databases in SharePoint 2010 SP1; High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and other requirements for supporting large databases.

Microsoft PubSec Live - Win8 At Night: Bring your apps to life with tile and notifications
Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:00 PM, Reston, VA
Tiles draw users back into your app by awakening your tile on the Start screen. Notifications delivered through the Windows Push Notification Service draw your users back into your app even when it's not running. In this session you will learn how to implement Tiles and Notifications and how to create tiles that let users personalize their Start screen by creating deep links to specific places within your app.

Microsoft Public Sector 1-Day Win8 Dev Camp Event
Tuesday, June 05, 2012 9:00 AM, Reston, VA
The agenda will include the following topics:
•Introduction to Windows 8 and the new Windows Store
•Designing a Metro Style App
•Building Metro Style Apps with HTML and JavaScript
•Building Metro Style Apps with XAML: What .NET Developers Need to Know
•Integrating the Windows 8 Experience with Contracts
•How and When Metro Style Apps Run
•Contoso CookBook Hands on Lab and General Hackathon

VS11 for Windows 8: Beyond Code: App Development for the Modern World
Tuesday, June 05, 2012 6:00 PM, Reston, VA
Details to follow!

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