Sessions and sights to see
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It's great to be back home in the UK after my extended trip - the warm waters of the Bahamas seem so far away at the moment, and the hustle and bustle of IT forum is exhilarating and exhausting. Its glad to be back home. I've missed loads though whilst I've been away. but I made up for it all by the great sessions I attended last week.
James spent the time at IT forum catching up on everything and blogging about the stuff he'd missed. This is James' year for "stuff" announcements - all of the things I follow were launched / updated / released at the start of this year, so I'm hanging around for things like Exchange 2007 SP1 etc.
Brett delivered a fantastic session showing how Exchange can be installed from a bare metal server using a simple PowerShell script. I was chatting to Jeffrey Snover about how the ability to REM out the comments in PowerShell actually helps the non developer like me to understand exactly what the heck is actually going on. He must think I'm a total numpty as he came over to me especially how I was getting on with PowerShell and the only thing I could intelligently say to him was the fact that I liked the tab key! (If you don't know what any of the PowerShell commands are, hit the tab key and it scrolls through the selection available).
Other sessions of note were Jason's Anywhere Access demo sessions. I love watching Jason present, he's a really engaging speaker. And he has loads and loads of gadgets to play with too. I didn't think this session was quite as good as the amazingly noisy sessions he does at our internal conferences when he throws devices gifts and freebies into the audience, and where the whooping and hollering is so loud, the presenters in the next room lose their thread of conversation.
Perhaps I need to join the mobility team and get my hands on lots of gadgets. Are there any jobs going Jason??...
