TechEd 2010 Day 3

I haven’t skipped a day of the conference, just haven’t had time to post.  So day 3 started with a level 400 Advanced PowerShell and has ended with one on Processes & Threads (which I found most disappointing as it seemed to have been lifted straight from the relevant chapters in the Windows Internals book and wrapped up in some pretty awful PowerPoint effects.  The rest of the day has been made up of sessions on Application Compatibility and RemoteFX a really cool new feature of SP1 for Server 2008 R2 when running a VDI.

TechEd 2010 Day 1

Here I am back in Berlin for TechEd EMEA 2010, although actually posting this at the beginning of day 2.  Signs of cut-backs are obvious: no longer do delegates get a branded laptop bag filled with assorted pieces of tat, this year you get a carrier bag.  Yes dear reader a plastic carrier bag!  Well I did my best to make up for that ensuring that I got a fair amount of conference/vendor crap memorabilia.  The Welcome Drinks event was sponsored by HP and looking at the amount of beer consumed by the 6000 delegates I cant see them being in a position to lower the prices of their servers anytime soon.

I’m starting day 2 with a level 400(!) session looking under the hood at the Application Compatibility Toolkit.  Here’s hoping that all the caffeine I had at breakfast starts to kick in pretty soon…