The Experts Conference (TEC)

The Experts Conference (TEC) is THE resource to keep up with the latest information in the Microsoft IT space. When things change so rapidly in the tech space – especially when it comes to cyber security threats and how to protect your organization from them – you need the latest information to help you keep your edge. The Experts Conference series of events is ideal for boots-on-the-ground technology professionals tasked with building, managing and defending your organization’s Microsoft environment.

The Experts Conference offers multiple ways to engage with renowned industry experts and Microsoft MVPs, both in-person and virtual. No matter how you choose to interact with TEC, all sessions offer practical, 300-400-level best practices to solve your toughest Microsoft IT challenges – with absolutely no product sales pitches.

The Experts Conference (TEC) community of AD and Microsoft 365 experts

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TEC 2025 Minneapolis

TEC 2025 European Roadshow

TEC TALKS

Join us in Minneapolis September 30 - October 1, 2025 for The Experts Conference (TEC) 2025, the industry’s premier Microsoft security and management training conference. Exchange ideas and share experiences around groundbreaking new technologies like Microsoft AI-Copilot and Security Copilot, as well as time-tested solutions like hybrid Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft 365.

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We’re bringing THE in-person Microsoft training event of the year to London, Paris, and Dusseldorf in April 2025. The best hybrid Active Directory and Microsoft 365 security experts will be joining us on the road, offering jam-packed, in-depth Microsoft 365 and Active Directory education to European IT professionals locally.

Explore TEC 2025 European Roadshow

TEC Talks are smaller, shorter virtual webinars scheduled throughout the year, leading up to our larger in-person and virtual conferences in the last half of the year. They share knowledge about Microsoft 365 and Active Directory that you can apply to your organization immediately. Like other TEC events, there are no product pitches.

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As a roll-up-your-sleeves technology professional tasked with building, managing and defending your organization’s Microsoft environment, you have a lot to gain from attending one or more of our TEC events. Administrators, security architects, solution architects, IAM managers, and many others take part to gain first-hand insight into managing, protecting or moving the workloads that make up your on-premises, cloud or hybrid infrastructure.

All TEC events mentioned above are filled to the brim with practical Active Directory and Microsoft 365 education straight from renowned Microsoft MVPs and industry experts — and at our in-person events, your IT peers. One TEC participant said, “The sessions were short, sweet, and very useful,” and praised TEC for providing “Lots of information in a concise manner.”

And as always, TEC events are brought to you by the leaders who have helped move, manage and secure more than 336 million Active Directory users: Quest Software.

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INDUSTRIES ARE PART OF THE TEC GLOBAL COMMUNITY

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MVPS ARE PART OF THE TEC GLOBAL COMMUNITY* *SINCE 2019

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PARTICIPANTS IN THE TEC GLOBAL COMMUNITY* *SINCE 2019

Customer Stories

TEC attendee

Relevant and practical talks about topics encountered in my daily life

TEC attendee

I thought everything with the conference was first class. The topics, accommodations, food was all fantastic. I know the first day was crowded in some rooms, but extra chairs we brought in and rooms were reconfigured for day 2. I felt the event staff really cared for the attendees and I certainly appreciated that!

TEC attendee

TEC was a really excellent and well-managed event... The size of the venue and the attendee count meant you could really engage directly, without being exhausted as you would be at Ignite.

TEC attendee

Biggest benefit to TEC is being able to talk to the people that are the experts on the subject matters, have that face time with them, ask them questions live.

TEC attendee

Sometimes other conferences might be more focused on sales to sell their products, this is everybody trying to talk about what’s best for everyone.

TEC attendee

Microsoft

You’ve got some of the best practitioners in the world sitting and talking about their problems with other best practitioners in the world. The real meaty problems are being dealt with in that environment. And its incredible to see what people are learning from each other. So I think the community is actually a huge part of it.

Alex Weinert VP of Identity Security, TEC 2022 Keynote

TEC attendee

Well the most valuable part for me is the ability to connect with not just the experts at Microsoft and Quest, but with all the other third-party experts, who support the Microsoft products and the Microsoft environments.

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Trimarc Security, LLC

There are really great speakers here, well-known speakers that are from around the world, top in their class, and the content they bring to tech provide details about the problems that are real world that organizations are experiencing today.”

Sean Metcalf Microsoft Certified Master, Founder & CTO