Nice one of the reasons my bosses have not thrown me out is Server 2008 and HyperV. I get (maybe) a new server and we are now down to one physical box running everything but the DC's.
Jon On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 J > > > > 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> ~
