Yesterday evening, August 25th, was the 2nd SMBiT Professionals Tech.Ed Dinner held at Sage Restaurant on the Gold Coast. Attended well by members of the SMBiT Professional Association from all parts of Australia, it certainly shows the power of a nation wide IT Professional Association that has committed Members who are dedicated to furthering the [...]
The SMBiT Professionals dinner is happening again this year at Tech.Ed after the great success of the event last year. If you’re yet to RSVP, please email me ASAP so that we can extend the booking should we need to. Details Where: Sage Restaurant Time: From 7pm to when we get kicked out Address: 5/20 [...]
Last year I did a post titled “When Level 300 is Level 100…” all about mis-titled and mis-represented sessions. This afternoon I did a session titled “SEC404 – Look@me and Pay” with speaker Jakub Kaminski. For those who don’t understand the rating systems applied to sessions: Level 100 – Sales Fluff Level 200 – Information [...]
This year Microsoft are giving $1 per Session Feedback form submitted to IT Farm For Kids. This is a great way to make sure your voice is heard about the sessions that you attended and do something for a good cause at the same time. To fill out your feedback just log in to CommNet [...]
The second session for today is the Hyper-V 2006 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory Allocation session by Ben Armstrong. This is actually really cool technology that will allow Hyper-V to allocate RAM dynamically to virtual machines as it’s needed. What this means to us is that we can configure a VM to use say 2GB of [...]
Yesterday at teh Keynote for TechEd 2010 Australia, one of the coolest things was the Kinnect demo on the Xbox360. Now this has nothing to do with IT infrastructure what so ever – but you’ve got to admit it is pretty darn cool. Check out the videos below. The first one shows how it works [...]
I’d love to report just how great Exchange 2007 SP1 is after attending the first session today, but unfortunately I can’t… you see despite having people register as to which sessions they attended, the rooms are overflowing with people outside the door. Now event organisers will tell you just how much of a success this [...]
TechEd Australia is off an running now. One of the things I’ve learnt over time is that when you are in a place for any length of time, the way to make it feel like home is to get a few things that help make it easier for you… and they can save a few [...]
Woohoo – it’s nearly here… the annual pilgrimage to the mecca of all things geek in Microsoft land… yes thats right ladies n gentlemen, it’s TechEd 2010 Australia and it’s on next week in the beautiful Gold Coast. TechEdLive.com owner Greg Lipschitz has blackmailed me once more into being a guest blogger for the event, [...]
