June, 2010

TechEd North America was a blast this year in New Orleans!

I co-presented two sessions (one with Brett and another with Larry) and both went well.

I got to pitch in and help with a few other sessions (with Michael Greene, Nick Smith, Bob, and Soumya Das Bhaumik).

I ate too well - got to see Chef Paul Prudhomme again (made it to his restaurant twice last week but only got to eat once! Thanks Maxime…I usually eat at drive-throughs while traveling…K-Pauls ROCKES!).

I also managed to hang with lots of friends / customers of Microsoft, analysts, and co-workers.

I had the chance to talk with Adam from TechNet Edge as well, and he and I chatted about the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V (imbedded below from the TechNet Edge site).

If you didn’t make it to TechEd North America, I’ll be recapping some of my observations and the details in the coming weeks (like what I learned from Soumya at his session on DiskShadow!).

-John

I've been heads down on all sorts of things, including preparing for two sessions at TechEd next week.

If you're heading to New Orleans, be sure to check out these two sessions next week at TechEd in New Orleans covering mixed environments:

Code	Session	Room	Day	Time
WSV318	Living in a Mixed Environment: Integrating Your Heterogeneous Infrastructure	Rm 387	Mon., June 7	4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
	John Kelbley, Larry Mead
	Windows Server runs on many of the servers in your data center, but perhaps not all of them. It may not be feasible to move all applications or functions to Windows, or some critical business applications may not leverage all the value of your Microsoft infrastructure. Learn how to better integrate and operate platforms (Linux/UNIX) and applications (like SAP) from outside the Microsoft family using technology including directory services, management, and virtualization. Come see how easy it can be to (for example) centralize Linux/UNIX/application security in the directory you already own, and how to backup Linux at no additional cost with Windows!
WSV305	Deploying, Virtualizing, and Managing Linux and UNIX with Hyper-V	Rm 356	Tues., June 8	8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
	Brett Shoemaker, John Kelbley
	What does it take to run Linux and other operating systems on Hyper-V alongside Windows? Where do you obtain and enable the Linux specific Integration Services, and what do they actually do? What versions and configurations are supported by Microsoft? Now that you have virtualized Linux on Hyper-V, how do you manage it? Find out why many organizations run Linux on Hyper-V, how to do it yourself, and what the benefits can be.

John Kelbley's real life enterprise interop and administration

John Kelbley's real life enterprise interop and administration

Linux on Hyper-V @ TechEd

TechEd 2010 Sessions