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Okay, now I feel like I got to have some fun in Barcelona.
On Friday after the show was over, Greg and I headed out to the Speaker's Dinner.
The dinner was great - we sat in large group tables with...
We started out the day doing RunAs interviews
- we've been so busy doing other sorts of interviews that we hadn't taken care of
our own stuff well enough. The good news is that there's lots of amazin...
The last day of Tech Ed is always kind of sad. A lot of folks fly out early on Friday.
Greg and I got a RunAs interview with Kim
Tripp and Paul Randal, two dear friends of mine. It was very hard to ...
Greg and I talked to Jeremy
Moskowitz about Group Policy in Active Directory. Jeremy has the definitive books
on the topic, and, as he points out, if you have Active Directory set up, you're already
...
Today was the busiest day so far doing interviews. In the FishBowl they're really
only equipped for one-on-one interviews, so Greg and I have been sharing duties when
they come up, largely based on t...
Now that the body of the conference is underway, Greg and I settle into a routine.
We hang out at the Virtual TechEd FishBowl
and do interviews all day. For the IT Forum Virtual Side the interviews t...
We started out today at a sprint - bringing Greg into the conference center and getting
him badged up, then straight to the trade show floor where the Community Lounge is,
which includes the Speaker ...
Just arrived in Barcelona for Tech
Ed IT Forum after 15 hours of travel... which is good speed, all things considered. Greg arrived
the day before me.
This whole week is totally focused on RunAs Rad...
Started this morning early, packing up and checking out - Kent and I would fly out
together this afternoon. I need to get back tonight because I leave on Saturday for
Barcelona and Tech Ed Europe IT ...
And just like that, the tradeshow is over. Well, by the afternoon, anyway. I worked
in the booth for the morning shift, but had to ditch after lunch to work with Kent
on our first session of the conf...
Today is tradeshow day... actually, its Microsoft day,
the day when all the sessions are given by Microsoft folks. But its also the day where
the tradeshow floor is open the most. DevConnections has
...
Greg and I talked to Randy
Smith about locking down Vista. We couldn't help laughing a bit about UAC, but
that's to be expected. We did get into more of the cool things that Vista adds, like
controll...
Well, now I know why Jenn said she was pleased the rack was functional - apparently
it took a serious fall. One wheel broken in half, two wheels bent, a huge dent in
side... its a miracle the servers...
Its the day before DevConnections actually
gets into full swing, Jenn and Trevor arrived yesterday afternoon, so they were in
place and good to go.
DevExpress' presentations started at noon today,
an...
Had a slow, lazy morning today, since the DevExpress meetings
didn't start until noon (gotta love that).
Wandered from the hotel part of the Mandalay
Bay all the way to the South Convention Center, ...
I've flown into Las Vegas for DevConnections a
couple of days early to hang with the DevExpress folks.
DevExpress has invited a small group of folks to show off their latest incarnation
of all their ...
Greg and I talked to Brien Posey about securing Exchange Server. We ranged all over
the map - there's so much to talk about in this space, depending on your Exchange
configuration. The sheer variety ...
And then suddenly, its over.
The tradeshow at Interop is only two days: Wednesday
and Thursday. Each day the booth was open for six and a half hours. Doesn't seem like
much.
So why am I so tired?
...
Greg and I talked
to Doug Toombs about some
of the tools an IT Pro ought to know about.
Tried on another new format for this show - spending just a couple of minutes on each
tool before moving on to...
Not much to say about Day 1 and 2 of Interop -
we were too busy getting ready for the tradeshow to get to see any sessions at all.
Our booth design for Interop uses a 20x20 island, we're right besid...
Back to New York again, this time for Interop.
Interop is a trade show focused on networking and mobility technologies. Monday and
Tuesday are set up days, the trade floor is open Wednesday and Thur...
Greg and I talked to Tony
Howlett and Glenn Kramer about Information Security. We get beyond protecting
credit card numbers, talking about the depth of protecting an enterprise's information
from the...
Finally, after two weekends and hours of work, I get to do what I started out trying
to do - building a six drive RAID 5 array out of terabyte hard drives. Cartman's old
5U case was all cleared out, ...
My parts arrived during the week, but it wasn't until the weekend that I actually
had time to start putting things together.
However, before I could build the new machine with the new parts, I had t...
Our discussion with Joel
Oleson on Sharepoint Management was largely a fallout of Sleepless
in New York. Hanging out with Sharepoint guys invariably means talking Sharepoint.
We tend to focus on the ...
So if you didn't get the hint,
I'm upgrading the capacity of my servers in my server closet.
Last time I upgraded capacity it was in Cartman,
migrating from a 400GB six drive RAID array to a 2TB six...
Got home from Bulgaria to discover that my new hard drives had arrived!
What sort of drives you might ask? Why Seagate
Barracude ES.2 1TB hard drives, of course! Because we all need ten terabytes.
...
Greg and I talked to Mitch
Garvis about Microsoft BDD. We really dug into all the different options for automating
the deployment of software in the enterprise, including SMS and the like. We also
ta...
Carl and I grabbed an interview with Dino Esposito in a quiet room during the conference,
his viewpoint on Silverlight and ASP.NET technologies is always interesting.
Dino's session on "What Partia...
Sold out! Yep, the show is packed. Its not the biggest show in the world, but the
attendees are focused and excited to be here. The keynote speech today included the
local Microsoft folks and Telerik...
Less than a week at home and I'm back in Europe, now in Sofia, Bulgaria for DevReach.
This is the second year of this conference, this time around Telerik is
very deeply involved. I've been helping ...
We've spent some time walking around SQL Server and its business intelligence services.
For this show, Greg and I talked to Trey
Johnson about the overall infrastructure that Microsoft provides for B...
Greg and I discussed a lot of potential topics around SQL Server with Brad, but eventually
settled on this one because it was so unique. What
does it take to be a better DBA? I agree with Brad for th...
One of the great things about the SDC conference is
the Speakers Tour. The conference has always been a Monday-Tuesday show, followed
on Wednesday by the organizers taking all the speakers out on a t...
So Mark, Karen and I managed to put together something
Mondays-like last night. Not exactly a Mondays without
Carl, but close enough. Without any recording gear, its going to disappear into history.
...
The SDC conference is
starting, and Carl is not here.
Some sort of travel disaster has happened for Carl, resulting in him losing some baggage
and being unable to travel until he gets it back.
This...
Okay, I'll admit it - I love iSCSI. I was totally stoked when Greg and I got a chance
to talk to Tom Clark about
iSCSI. What iSCSI does more than anything else is bring the price of SAN infrastructur...
Back in New York again! I've lost count of the number of times I've been in New York
this year.
This time the event is Sleepless
in New York, Infusion's weekend
of Sharepoint madness.
The event is a...
Greg and I spent a good long time with Charles
Betz getting our head around where ITIL is
going. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library is a set of docs focused
around the infrastructure, ...
Greg and I had a great time talking to David
Lowe about the Windows Server 2008 Core installation. David works for Microsoft
on the Windows Server Team which is totally focused on getting Windows Ser...
Donald Farmer talks to
us about data mining on the IT side of the world, away from the traditional concepts
of "people who liked this book also liked..." and into the idea that we could be data
mini...
After spending a week in New York, we hopped on the Amtrak and headed for New London
in time for Carl's 40th birthday
party.
We're staying in a cool older hotel near the seaside on the edge of New L...
I almost never travel for fun - travel is work. Folks who don't travel for a living
think that the constant travel is something to enjoy, and while it does have its perks,
the reality is that my idea...
After having a couple of laughs around whether we were talking about Virtualization
for Disaster Recovery or Disaster
Recovery for Virtualization(it was the latter), Greg and I went deep with
Bob Rou...
Our longest-distance interview yet, we talked
to Sarbjit Singh Gill all the way in Singapore about his work with Sharepoint
2007. Sarbjit did a great job of helping us understand the role that Sharep...
We got a chance to really dig into where server
virtualization is at with Stephen Rose. Stephen digs into both Microsoft's Virtual
Server product and VMWare's goodies. We also dive into migration str...
You can thank Greg Hughes for this one -
after our original show we got a ton of questions about backing up to disk. Steve
Witner from Quantum came to our rescue with
a great discussion about
using d...
When we recorded show #3 with Dana
Epp on Cardspace, we knew we had to
bring him back for more. So now, three months later, Dana
returns and we talk all server side. The server side story of CardSpac...
A couple of weeks ago I was in Calgary to do my SQL Querying presentation for the Calgary
.NET Users Group. While there, John Bristowe interviewed me. That interview is
now posted.
Actually, its rea...
We had a great time talking to Charlie
Russel, mostly because we dove into a real technical problem around Service Pack
2 for Windows 2003 R2. Love real time diagnostics. But somewhere along the way ...
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