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 [...]
Just a quick thanks to the 200+ people that came to my session today. There was standing room only with around 20 standing at the back of the room! Wow. I’ve been saying to Microsoft that SBS really DOES have a place here at TechEd and that we simply MUST provide better technical training to [...]
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0815 – Keynote started. Good work to the GCECC staff for getting everyone in quickly. 0817 – Welcome by Colin Tim 0819 – 2500 Delegates, 400 people could not make it on the waiting list, lots of Tech.Ed virgins this year (50% New), Increase in # of women (over 200), 27 Delegated from Overseas (only [...]
This morning my first session was with Steve Riley and he had a little chat to us about the notion of putting the corpnet in the cloud. Not Cloud Computing, but putting the corporate network in the cloud. I keep hearing little voices in my head … or chirps?? So, what does this mean….. well [...]
