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 :-)
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
Man managing just one box, I wish I had that job :-)
I got 20 ESX servers, and about 300+ physical servers here, on top of 7K
in workstations.
Z
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 2:23 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: TechEd 2008
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