In addition to the two Steve Riley presentations I saw, there were a few other items that caught my attention on day 3: Windows Server 2008 R2 will be 64-bit only. yes, that’s right, there will be no 32-bit version. WoW64 will still be available for those of you needing to run x86 apps on the server, but it’s now an …

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 talking in depth …

Following a strong recommendation from Robert, I attended a couple of talks by Steve Riley (Senior Security Strategist for Microsoft). The first presentation was titled ‘21st Century Networking: throw away your medieval gateways’, the second was ‘Do these ten things or get 0wn3d!’. Steve has to be one of the best …

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 get 0wned was a …

You can find the slides for my Vbug sessions on the [Black Marble web site](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/SectionDisplay.aspx?name=Publications&subsection=Conference Papers). I hope those you attended found it useful.

My first session of the day was about project Gemini. Following the brief demonstration in the keynote, I was really looking forward to a better look at Gemini, its background and how it will help information workers and IT professionals; I wasn’t disappointed. Cristian Petculescu, the Principal Architect for Gemini is …

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 so they can run your …

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 replace WAN …

I am down in Reading for the VBug conference where I am speaking on TFS tomorrow. Whilst in the bar chatting to Roy Osherove from Typemock, the keynote speaker for the conference, he asked if I had looked at the Sharepoint patterns and practices document that details using Typemock Isolator for unit testing in …

Andy and I are now in a TMG preview demo. This looks really interesting - we spoke to the guys at ATE last night and saw a few items that I hope to see now in more detail. TMG is ISA Server vnext - codenamed 'Nitrogen' and part of the 'Stirling' next wave of Forefront. Stirling family members exchange information to …