Agreed.
We are minutes away from the MSFT regional office. Sessions held there are usually worthwhile. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch well.... no secrets here. various people (MVPs, MSFT regional directors, local tech evangelists, etc.) are invited to speak at various events. those that happen in/around major cities can draw MSFT Redmond team members (even TechEd Singapore had a couple of great guys from the Exchange team there, and they presented at several events surrounding that TechEd). but smaller cities have much less of a chance there and are often dependent on local resources. some local resources are superb; others... not so much. some local MSFT events are co-sponsored by MSFT and the local MSFT partners, as part of the local partner's benefits. those are the ones i generally recommend you stay away from ... unless they offer you something free that you really want. some partner's are great, but most of them that participate in MSFT events put their sales people out to present and shmooze, instead of their technical folks that most attendees want. all imho. ymmv. void in wisconsin. ________________________________ From: Don Guyer [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch I've been to a handful of these types of events. It's really a hit or miss regarding the content and the presenters, but I don't expect much when I attend these as they are free. The one for 2k8 I went to earlier this year was fairly good. Decent content and the presenter did not make me want to stick a pen in my eye. Went to one a few years back on one of their "bus tours" that was really neat, lots of hands on and got to play with the Xbox 360 (was either right before the release or right after). Also have been to others that were downright a waste of time. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch I wasn't aware of this roadshow, so I haven't registered anywhere (looks like they're all closed now). I can say that I have been to very disappointing MS events in the past. The one for Server 2008, Hyper-V and SQL 2008 was just plain awful. The content pretty much wasn't, and the presenter didn't have it together. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Live Launch Anyone else attend this event yesterday? http://www.microsoft.com/business/thenewefficiency/Philadelphia/default. aspx Glad I went to get the free copy of W7, but besides that I thought it was a little light on content. And in particular some of the presentations on Exchange 2010 were downright poor. Other views? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
