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Controversial discussion about the new App Model and very nice experience sharing. Here are my key questions and thoughts about the session by Christian Groß. Deployment? What are the limits and advantages Security – when you trust you can choose what rights the app has. Technology independent (Coose what every technology you want, e.g. .NET version) Life cycle – when you update you app you have to update the app on each subscriber web.

Peter Holpar showed us how to extend the Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint. Implementation The creation of a Visual Studio Extension is basically a custom class that implements some interfaces. The biggest problem is that the documentation is not that good – Peter told us that it needs a lot of debugging to get things working. PreReqs Get the Visual Studio 2012/2013 SDK and you need, of course, an installed SharePoint because of the assemblies.

Session by Simon Skinner (@CymonSkinner)

SharePoint is now a company standard, but what is supported, sensible, or even practicable? How do we go about monitoring and managing SharePoint? In this session, we discuss the virtualization path and best practices using Hyper-V for high availability and why virtualization makes sense. […]

Here are my notes:

Session by Paolo Pialorsi (@PaoloPia)

In this session, you learn how authentication and authorization work in SharePoint 2013, either when handling direct users’ requests, or running requests for SharePoint apps. In particular, see how to federate with an external Identity Provider like Windows Azure ACS to authenticate users and then authorize them in SharePoint, leveraging claims.

There is one Level 400 session (highest) – guess what’s it about? Right, Authentication.

Here are my session notes.

Corey Burke (@cburke007) and Todd Klindt (@toddklindt)– Entertaining SharePoint Administration

In this session, we cover what’s new in SharePoint 2013. First, we cover installing SharePoint 2013 and configuring your new farm. This session provides what to need to start planning your new SharePoint 2013 farm and dovetails nicely into Part 2, which covers changes in SharePoint 2013 the SharePoint administrator should know about. We cover changes to how you’ll plan your farm topology. We also cover the changes to the Search service application and how that impacts scale. Finally, we spend some time talking about everyone’s favorite part of SharePoint Server, the User Profile Service.

That’s quite a lot for one session – but Todd is a fast speaker. The session also includes cheap jokes about SharePoint Developers, guaranteed!

So here are my session notes:

If SQL Server does not perform, SharePoint can not show its full potential – to quote the session description:

More than 90% of the content accessed via SharePoint is stored in SQL Server and without the correct configuration of SQL Server it can have a detrimental impact on the performance of SharePoint. Regardless of whether you have a dedicated DBA or the SharePoint administrator is also the DBA there are critical SQL Server configurations that can be made that will optimize SharePoint […]

Here are my session about the session by Brian Alderman (@brianalderman)

Another search session – good times!

This keynote is, as the title indicates, all about Windows 8.1.

My takeaways and impressions after the jump.

Session by Brian Randell (@brianrandell)

It started with music – and then Brian started a great session. Here are my notes!

Session by Dan Holme (@danholme)

This is one of my most anticipated sessions at this years TechEd. Part of my job is it to consult my clients why, when and how they can migrate to SharePoint 2013, so this is a perfect session for me. Here are my notes from Dan’s Session – with many quotes because they rock and have totally influenced my decisions in the past!