Techorama 2017

What can be automated? Just about everything! This session will feature a LEGO Robot, Voice controlled automation and much more! Packed with PowerShell, Webhooks, Web services and Innovation!

Join PowerShell MVP & DBA Chrissy LeMaire and PowerShell Expert & DBA Rob Sewell to learn how you can take advantage of some amazing community modules to improve your work/bacon life balance.

We will show you how to perform many DBA tasks easily and simply using PowerShell. Need to properly configure tempdb? We've got you covered. Not sure if all of the SQL Servers in your estate are set to the proper power plan? A single PowerShell command can help. Want to alter the schedule for an Agent Job on dozens, hundreds or even thousands of servers? We will teach you how easy that is, along with many other solutions as well as showing you how to easily gather information about your estate and display it in SSRS or PowerBI.

Our session is aimed at DBAs, from junior to senior, who want to embrace the latest methods and increase their toolset.

O365 is the most revolutionary new feature of O365. It brings together the best of breed functionality of many O365 services like e-mail and calendars from Outlook, files and OneNote from SharePoint, and tasks from Planner. The session gives an overview of what O365 Groups are, how you can manage them in the UI, with PowerShell and with Graph. I will also highlight the roadmap of O365 groups.

Everybody is writing unit tests, right? And do you write them the classic way or not? Did you ever question that?
During this talk we’ll be asking ourselves what the scope of a unit test can or should be. And we’ll show techniques to help you write more meaningful unit tests, which help us to involve the customer and to speed up an agile team.
We’ll also touch on the impact of new technologies which could blur the lines between unit testing and integration testing.

Kimberly Blessing, a long-time web professional and change agent, has facilitated massive change in organizations of all sizes and in the web community at large. She'll explain why your efforts to change people may not be working, and she'll help you embrace your inner change agent by giving you the tools to lead the charge.

IoT will be a total game changer. But how can the developer community leverage IoT technology? How can we reuse our existing development skillset in an IoT context? In this talk we will explain how we built an end-to-end IoT solution on top of the new Proximus LoRa IoT network and how TypeScript made our lives easier. We will first give a short intro about the three building blocks needed to build and IoT solution: • Sensor • Network • Application We will use our slotmachine demo application to zoom deeper into these building blocks and how we connected them. We will give you the highlights of the new low power long range Proximus LoRa network and what this means for you as a developer. The Proximus MySense sensor we used can be programmed using JavaScript. We will explain which APIs are available and how we leveraged our existing TypeScript and web development skills to speed up development. We will finish with our general architecture, integration with Proximus MyThings and our Node.js backend application written in TypeScript. This application uses web sockets to push the data to the frontend. This allows our solution to be push-all-the-way-up, pushing data from the sensor over the network to our application to our frontend, and deliver messages near real time.

You might be one of the many people intrigued by Reactive Programming. But how does it work, and more importantly what can you use it for?
This session will try to demystify Reactive Programming through a series of examples in both C# and JavaScript. We’ll skip the theory and steep learning curve and jump right in.

Did you start with Azure as one of the first? Then you are probably still stuck with some ASM IaaS resources?!

We will explain and show how to migrate IaaS resources from ASM to ARM with Azure Site Recovery.

What do you need to know, what pitfalls and limitations are there, best practices ….

We all know that PowerShell is the latest and greatest when it comes to managing your systems, but the real power comes from understanding how “attackers” can and are taking this framework to create amazing tools and then using these tools against your infrastructure. From discovering and inventorying all your systems to totally pwning your systems, yes we can even bypass your “remote execution policies”. We’ll talk about how to implement your own penetration test against yourself using PowerShell so that you can start to see the new techniques and tools being using against your networks.

You'll learn and understand how “attackers” are using this built-in framework against you to

o Discovery systems

o See what hardware and software they’re running

o Map out the domain(s)

o Pwn a system and then the domain

You have been blaming developers for bringing down your farm, wrestling with them over configuration changes or just laughing at them because they wear stupid T-shirts. Making fun of developers is a great way to pass the time, I'm sure we all agree on that. However, you have been secretly watching Build keynotes, sitting in on developer sessions at a conference or reading developer blogs behind closed doors, because… well - it seems so cool! Fear not, you're not alone. If this is you and you don't know where to start, this session is for you. We’ll cover the essential tools you need to know to get started, and go from Hello World to your first real client side webpart in 60 minutes. No farm solutions involved or you get your money back.

Two years ago, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Core under an open source license along with the .NET Compiler Platform (aka “Roslyn”) and launched the .NET Foundation. In this presentation, Martin Woodward will discuss the transition the .NET teams in Microsoft made into working in the open. He will also cover how development teams at Microsoft are adjusting to working in a new way and how the open source community has become an integral part of the .NET ecosystem.