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TechEd day 3
OK – I was officially out way too late last night. I was dragging today. Blah. At least I made it to breakfast at the convention hall though.
Session 1: PowerShell Scripting for Exchange 2007. WOW! I’m actually pretty excited about how much you can do from a command line to manage Exchange 2007. The ability to make mass modifications in a scripted fashion will revolutionize how IT pros manage Exchange. A month ago it took a coworker the better portion of a day to go through hundreds our user accounts and remove an email address for a specific domain from all but a handful. Could have been done in a couple minutes with PowerShell.
Session 2: Top 10 Enhancements in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering. Sounds sexy, doesn’t it? I thought it was a great session. They’re continuing to improve on a critical enterprise component of the server platform. I’m most happy to see them completely overhaul the management interface. HURRAY!
Session 3: Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange. Seems like they’ve done a good job upgrading the Antigen product. I look forward to running this in our environment, especially since CA doesn’t feel like supporting Exchange 2007.
After that? I skipped the late afternoon session (I can get the info online) and the evening session (nothing I wanted to go to anyway) and went back to the hotel to sleep. I feel SO much better now.
I was hoping to walk across the parkway to Disney Downtown Marketplace and get a good dinner and do some gift shopping. Unfortunately the weather decided to break the Florida drought with a long train of thunderstorms and downpours. So I slept some more. Another night of bland hotel food.
Better luck tomorrow … or Friday.
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Wow, this is a great article. Must read.
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The first two runs of the day went well. Small ice crystals fell, threatening to morph into full-fledged snowflakes, but visibility was still decent.
Anthony Reece was at the controls of his Hughes 500D helicopter, a 165-foot-long cable and hook dangling from the orange-and-white belly. The helicopter soared up the drainage just south of the Skagit River, the deep shoosh-shoosh-shoosh of the blades reverberating off the saturated slopes.
International flare
I find it interesting that so many words from the English/American lexicon have made their way into foreign languages. It makes sense as we have many of their words in ours, but it’s always a bit striking to hear it first hand.
I’m sitting in a room waiting for the first session of the day to start and there’s a gentleman behind me speaking on the phone in German.
“German German German German webcam German German instant messaging German German, OK? Hahahaha.”
I don’t get the joke…. 🙂
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