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Session by Michael Washam (@MWashamMS) how to provision SharePoint 2013 in Windows Azure Virtual Machines.

Session notes after the jump.

Okay, this is a session out of my usual scope. The title of the session caught me and as it seems it was totally worth it.

Here are my session takeaways.

From the session description:

Successful SharePoint deployments have one thing in common: great search!

So, true – here are my session notes from the Search Architecture, Sizing, and Migration in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 session.

Session by Glenn Condron

Okay, this room is packed – there is some serious interest in this topic.

Here are my notes from the session.

In-Memory is the big new thing - here are my notes from the session!

Session by Rolando Jimenez

Build a new class of apps that extend and personalize the way we create and consume information right from within Office…

First keynote here with Brad Anderson (Vice President at Microsoft) and others.

Lots of impressions, he covered most of the new stuff.

I roughly finished my Schedule for Teched 2013 (#Tee13) in Madrid – I will blog summaries about the sessions I attend.

In certain situation you want to allow that your SharePoint can utilize the new .NET 4.5 functions – this includes WebSockets for instance. In order to get his running, you have to change the web.config of the corresponding Web Application. Disclaimer: Use this on your own risk and try it in a TEST or DEV environment first – the change can take down your SharePoint Farm or break core functions! Manual approach This is a step by step manual how to set the values that your SharePoint targets .

Almost weekly there is a new tool that you can install with the very awesome chocolatey. In the case you have not heard about chocolatey, its a package manager for Windows similar to apt-get for linux - in other words: You can install tools/software with 1 line of Powershell.