TechEd 2005 Day 5

Instead of going to a morning session, I participated in an Exchange Focus Group, looking at features and feature names for the upcoming Exchange 12. it was a great chance to provide some feedback. Plus you get a gratuity from Microsoft for participating. You can pick anything from software, like Microsoft office, to wireless keyboards …

Leaving TechEd

Just a quick post, because I need to pick up my luggage and hop a bus back to the airport for a morning flight back home. Unfortunately my flight schedule didn’t work out to attend any of the Friday sessions. Next year, I plan on staying through the weekend to avoid that problem and visit …

Geek Shirts in Stock at TechEd Store

The TechEd Store has “Geek” t-shirts back in stock as of this afternoon! They were moving pretty good, so if you want one, you should probably stop by soon. These are the shirts that they sold out of on Sunday.

TechEd 2005 Day 4

Some very good sessions today. The three I attended were “SEC350 Tips and Tricks to Running Windows with Least Privilege”, “SVR315 Introduction to Data Protection Server (DPS)”, and “SVR300R Security Configuration Wizard in Windows Server 2003 SP1”. SEC350 was a great presentation on ways you can run Windows as a non-admin and still get the …

Common Courtesy for TechEd Breakout Sessions

A couple suggestions for people attending the breakout sessions here at Tech Ed. Set Your Phone/PDA/Blackberry/etc to Vibrate—C’mon people, all of these portable devices have a vibrate feature. If you are smart enough to develop complex software applications and maintain corporate computing infrastructure, I think you can learn how to set your phone to vibrate. …