Join North East Bytes for our seventh event of the year.  Following on from the great events that started the year we've lined up another two great speakers who are delivering two very interesting sessions.  Register now, you won't want to miss this opportunity!

"WCF Data Services" with Iain Angus

WCF Data Services is a framework for exposing data layers in a REST-ful manner. This session will look at how WCF, REST and LINQ come together to form Microsoft's latest data access technology. Topics covered include implementing and consuming data services, why IQueryable and IUpdatable are important, service operations / interceptors and concurrency.

Iain Angus is a Technical Consultant for Black Marble, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England, specialising in Microsoft BizTalk and SharePoint based business automation and collaboration solutions, as well as Application Lifecycle Management.

Iain has more than 14 years working in IT, as both a System Administrator and Developer across a wide ranging set of industries including Health, Finance and Professional Services. In addition, Iain has presented at events on a diverse range of web and data technologies including SharePoint, Reporting Services and SQL 2008.

http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/iangus

"Exchange 2010, Product Overview And Example Architectures" with Ben Lee

Exchange 2010 is the latest generation of Microsoft’s enterprise messaging suite. This session will provide an overview of the platform, focusing on the architecture changes including the simplified storage topology, resiliency options as well as the improvements to the end users. If you didn’t know what a DAG was before the session, you certainly will by the end!

Ben is a Senior Consultant for an IT services and consulting company called Waterstons based in Durham. He specialises in Microsoft enterprise products such as System Center and ISA server. Ben also has an interest in automation technologies and network security; some of his recent projects have involved Configuration Manager and PKI implementations. Before joining Waterstons at the start of 2009, Ben worked as Systems Administrator for the North East Chambers of Commerce. Ben has not been officially involved in the IT Pro community before but is excited to be involved with NEBytes and is looking forward to helping from the community in the North East.

Blog: http://www.bibble-it.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/bibbleq

The event will be hosted in Room 120 of the Claremont Building at Newcastle University.  For a detailed campus map - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/documents/Campus-Map-Print.pdf 

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