TechEd this year is in Orlando, Florida, who is going, but more importantly, to me, is why. I need to write a justfication and even with that I doubt I get to attend but it is worth the try. This would be my first time going so it would help me knowing what is really the high points. Thanks a lot, Jon Harris
I was there last year, as some on this very list that I partied with. Here are the highlights. 1) Technical Briefings and Information on a variety of Microsoft/Non Microsoft products and software/hardware which you can bring back to your company and organization to meet business needs. 2) In depth labs, and technical resources from some of the best MVP's and Microsoft resources in the country. 3) Personally, as an example I spent probably 6-8 hrs of actual time talking with Scott Forsych from Orcsweb and the IIS team at the boots about a new Intranet design I was coming up with to propose to the web-team as a way to better provide high availability for our intranet/internet web presence. I was pretty dumbfounded when Scott told me that they just did a design similar to what I was coming up with ( Abiet 2+ months of research and work) for a customer a few weeks ago. That experience alone let me know I was on the right track. 4) If you aint got to see Mark Miansi's presentations in person, boy you are in for a treat, he is presenting like 6 tracks this year, and focusing on Vista Gotchas and the cool stuff you can do in Windows 2008, again, since those are hot right now in M$ land and might be on your plate to deploy, getting up on the latest information and knowledge only helps you shine when you get back to office. 5) The Hands on labs on a variety of subjects, technologies are available everyday, so you can work on what you have learned in the conferences, and reinforce it before you head back. 6) You receive a 4 CD set of all the presentations from all the presenters by track therefore you can review and read throughout the year to grab whatever information you need to get stuff done. 7) Vendor Parties and Raffles, trust me you want in on the Configuresoft, Double-Take, EMC, and others raffles, they had the best parties and the biggest prizes. 8) Lastly, there is a wealth of knowledge with just connecting with colleages and discussing issues, face to face, or going over ideas with the various MVP's and Microsoft reps that you are going to come back to your workplace with so many ideas you want to implement its not even funny. If you like to know more, just ask David Lum, John Cook and TVK, we all hung out and partied and swapped ideas on how plot shooks demise, too bad due to the recession our resources to take care of such overthrowing fell short. But heck even Shook got a set of DVD';s from me from Tech Ed for being a good sport :-) EZ Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -----Original Message----- From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: TechEd 2008 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
