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Tech Ed 2008 EMEA IT - Day 5 and home time

I’ve been a bit delayed writing this final blog post from Tech Ed EMEA 2008, so I’m back in the UK. The final day at Tech Ed 2008 EMEA IT was not quite as session filled as previous days, mainly because Rik and I had to be heading off to the airport shortly before 3pm to catch our flight home. The first...

Posted to Andy Dawson's Blog (Weblog) by Andy Dawson on 11-10-2008
Tech Ed EMEA IT: Day 4 - Guru Central

So, we're on the penultimate day of TechEd EMEA and I have to say that exhaustion is starting to creep in. However, the day had a great start with sessions by Steve Riley and then Mark Russinovich. Steve was talking about security implications of virtulisation and his views were stimulating. He was...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-06-2008
Tech Ed EMEA IT: Day 3 - Steve Riley

The last session of the day was just incredible. A surfer-dude with boundless energy wandering around the audience in shorts, cracking jokes and telling stories and every single one related in some way to his point. Steve Riley is a fantastic presenter, and his session - Do these ten things now or else...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-06-2008
Tech Ed EMEA IT: Day 3 - Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualisation (MED-V)

OK, MED-V is cool! Sadly, cool though it is, it's not something we'll use3 at BM, but in my previous lives doing large organisation IT, MED-V would have been a killer. In a nutshell, it is this: create a Virtual PC image with your legacy OS and legacy App. Deploy that VPC to your users desktop...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-05-2008
Tech Ed EMEA IT: Day 3 - Server 2008 R2

We were in early today, looking forward to a session on SharePoint with Bill Engolish. Sadly, that was cancelled so Andy and I sat in on the Server 2008 R2 overview session presented by Iain McDonald. That was very interesing, and we learned a bit more about BranchCache. It doesn't look like it will...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-05-2008
TechEd EMEA IT: Day 2 - Windows 7 Feature Preview

So, the first session of the day was an extremely well-attended overview of Windows 7 features. When they talk about evolution rather than revolution with regard to Windows 7, I think that's accurate. It was very much about developing and extending the foundations of Vista. A few things stuck out...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-04-2008
Tech Ed EMEA 2008 IT – Day 1 reflections

Today has been interesting. Rik and I started the day doing the sightseeing we had time for. The Gaudi cathedral had been particularly recommended, so with limited time at our disposal, that’s what we decided to see. We arrived at the gate just as it opened, and were in within a few minutes. The cathedral...

Posted to Andy Dawson's Blog (Weblog) by Andy Dawson on 11-03-2008
Tech Ed EMEA IT 2008: Day 1 - Keynote

So, the keynote was interesting. Much of the content I had seen before, but there were some demos that were interesting and a few snippets that made me take note. For example, I had not understood that the acquisition of Kidaro will enable interaction between applications running within a virtual machine...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-03-2008
Tech ED EMEA IT: Day 1 - Waiting for the Keynote

It's an exercise in surreality. I've just walked through tunnels reminiscent of THX1138, to emerge in a wonderful blue-bathed auditorium, and they're playing the Akira soundtrack (specifically the bit from just after the first nuclear explosion). Weird. Andy and I travelled all the way from...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-03-2008
Catching Up

I've been far too busy lately and whilst there have been lots of things I wanted to post about, time has not been on my side. Before I start to forget some of the points I thought a quick post was in order. @media 2008 was great. Slides and audio are just filtering onto the blog now. A highlight...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 06-13-2008

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