Get a step-by-step walkthrough for Microsoft Defender XDR and learn how to implement key capabilities. Learn how to assign preset security policies for Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Protect your endpoints using Microsoft Defender Endpoint by onboarding devices and configuring roles and device groups. Lastly, dive into the advanced attack mitigation features for your devices using Defender for Endpoint to effectively investigate alerts and incidents.

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Learn how to seamlessly modernize a Linux application stack in Azure. Participants will be able to step through the migration process with a Linux/Postgres/Java application and utilize infrastructure as a code (IaC) for scale migrations.

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In today’s competitive landscape, cost efficiency is more than a priority, it’s a strategic imperative. This session explores how to maximize the ROI of your Azure investments by embracing proven best practices, optimizing architectures, unlocking pricing offers, and applying strategic ROI analysis. Discover how to get the most from your Azure investments while aligning with long-term goals.

Frontier partners use Microsoft technologies and an industrial partner ecosystem with autonomous agents available in Microsoft Marketplace to tackle complex use cases across the value chain—from design and production to supply chain and services—driving efficiency, resilience, and innovation in manufacturing.

When building enterprise-grade apps, your database must deliver massive scale and rapid, relevant search. Azure Cosmos DB provides reliable data storage, vector search, and full-text indexing. Explore new capabilities designed to simplify development and enhance AI and search performance. Learn from Azure Cosmos DB engineering team and Veeam on how to optimize any-scale scenarios for efficient and fast search.

Explore how open standards and design patterns enable scalable, repeatable digital twins that aggregate heterogeneous operational data onto physically accurate 3D objects. Experience how Microsoft and NVIDIA apply OpenUSD, CloudEvents, OpenTelemetry, and other open standards to bridge data engineering and data science. Learn how these patterns unify real-world data into actionable digital twins—extensible across domains, systems, and protocols.

As organizations migrate to Microsoft Security solutions, they face growing complexity in threat detection, response, and compliance. This session explores how Lumen Defender complements Microsoft's native security stack to deliver outside-in intelligence from the world’s most interconnected internet backbone, enabling SOC teams to quickly detect and respond to alerts with confidence. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to strengthen their security posture and accelerate ROI.

For project-centric organizations, success is all about maximizing revenue capture on billable work and allowing project resources to focus on delivering client value. In this session we will demonstrate how agents in Dynamics 365 Project Operations are helping meet this brief: from helping employees track time and record expenses to streamlining project manager reviews of project activities for client invoicing.

This lab offers a hands-on deep dive into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s CSPM features, teaching participants how to assess and improve cloud security across hybrid environments. Attendees will identify misconfigurations, apply compliance frameworks, and automate remediation strategies to strengthen their security posture.

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Learn more about migration and modernization of Windows Server, SQL Server, and .NET apps. Learn how to assess and migrate Windows Server and SQL Server workloads using Azure Migrate and Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). This lab covers discovery, dependency mapping, migration execution, and post-migration optimization as well as leveraging Microsoft Defender for cloud for securing workloads post migration.

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Discover how Microsoft Entra ID is driving the move to a passwordless future with passkeys. Learn about new passkey features, setup, and user benefits, plus insights from Microsoft’s own implementation and the impact of passkeys on the broader ecosystem.

Whether you use Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES, or Rocky, deploying Linux on Azure is more than provisioning VMs. Learn to build secure, performant Linux environments using Azure-native tools and partner integrations. See how to streamline image creation, harden workloads, monitor performance, and stay compliant with Azure Monitor, Defender for Linux, PostgreSQL on Azure, and the secure Linux baseline. Whether architect or OSS advocate, this session helps you confidently “train your penguin” for the cloud.

Explore how Microsoft Sentinel’s platform architecture scales security operations and empowers teams with graph intelligence, data lake integration, and agentic workflows - to automate, investigate, and respond with speed and precision.

Dive deep into how humans and agents work side by side through new collaboration patterns and interfaces in business applications. Learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot integrates with apps, and explore best practices for bringing assistants, apps, and agent feeds together in unified workspaces, unlocking seamless collaboration and greater productivity for every employee.

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Resiliency is foundational. Explore how resiliency on Azure enables secure, scalable, AI-ready cloud architectures. Learn to set resilience goals, simulate failures, and orchestrate recovery. See live demos and discover how shared responsibility empowers teams to deliver trusted, resilient outcomes.

Explore advancements in Windows resiliency. Learn about joint efforts with security partners to develop security tools that operate outside the Windows kernel. Get to know new Windows recovery tools and features designed to restore devices efficiently after unforeseen PC incidents.

Small and medium businesses need to be able to scale rapidly in this era of viral marketing moments, and AI agents are key to unlocking success at scale. With agents, SMBs can add capacity to their workforce, standardize business processes, and launch new business models with ease. In this session we will share how agents in Business Central are helping businesses thrive from sales order taking to making sure vendors are paid on time.

ServiceNow and Microsoft are redefining how enterprises work—bringing together AI, data, and workflows in a single, secure operating system for the enterprise. Discover how Copilot and AI Agents integrate seamlessly to unify people, processes, and systems across Microsoft 365 and the ServiceNow AI Platform. Learn how this partnership delivers built-in trust, governance, and automation—from IT to SecOps to employee and even customer experience—so you can move faster, stay compliant, and turn AI into real business outcomes.

To stay ahead, organizations need a secure, identity-based foundation for your digital landscape. Learn what Microsoft Entra and Intune bring across the M365 stack to help you reach a Zero Trust security posture with more compliance and control in the era of AI. We’ll dive into top scenarios that bring to life what you need to maximize your Microsoft investment.

AI is reshaping roles, skills, and organizational structures. In this session, see how new agents, connectors and Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities bring people and organizational insights together to help teams plan and adapt for AI-driven workforce transformation. See demos and learn how Microsoft is using these capabilities to connect teams, accelerate learning and increase agility in workforce planning.

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See how Azure Local is revolutionizing hybrid cloud strategies. Powered by Azure Arc and HPE hardware, Azure Local delivers Azure services where they’re needed most. Topics include Adaptive Cloud strategy, data locality, alternative solution migrations, and competitive advantages. Learn how Azure Local empowers hybrid cloud innovation, agility, and control while helping partners unlock new revenue opportunities.

VS Code has enterprise features built for IT. You need to keep it secure, consistent, and compliant—while developers just need it to run. Learn how to deploy VS Code at scale, enforce policies for extensions, updates, and telemetry, and protect environments without blocking productivity. We’ll also cover practical steps to scale AI—using instructions, prompt templates, and extension policies that raise Copilot effectiveness and keep your org aligned.

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Learn to deploy Windows 365 Cloud PCs using a secure, scalable model. In this hands-on lab, set up provisioning policies, integrate with Microsoft Entra, apply Zero Trust networking, and configure Conditional Access. Experience the full user journey and admin setup. Monitor and manage with ease. Leave with a blueprint to deploy, secure, and scale Cloud PCs efficiently.

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Take a motivational tour through the healthcare AI sample repository and set yourself up for success with multimodal AI for Health & Life Sciences. Dive into notebooks and sample solutions for problems like image search, cancer grading based on radiology and pathology images, outlier detection, and exam parameter classification. Deploy a model, plug it into an agentic flow, and evaluate it with human feedback. A hands-on journey from setup to deployment and refinement.

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Join us at Microsoft Ignite for a fast-paced technical session on integrating Esri’s Maps for Fabric Workload within Microsoft Fabric. Discover how to embed geospatial intelligence into your data workflows, visualize location-based insights, and drive smarter decisions. We'll cover setup, performance tips, and real-world use cases that showcase how Fabric and Esri together unlock powerful spatial analytics for modern data teams.