TechEd Australia: Free Netbook on offer!

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Orin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:26:49 GMT

Perhaps the current version of the TechNet library (the local documentation part) - could also drive TechNet sales ;-)

XP Mode (assuming that the edition is appropriate)

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Cliff Hobbs — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:56:41 GMT

Cool offer. Are you planning on maybe keeping a diary on here of the experience/ writing a technote/ whitepaper on what you did, how and how it all came together as that would be cool?

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jeffa36 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:05:41 GMT

Yes we will be creating a session at TechEd on how we did this as well as sharing the best practice of what we did..

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Andy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:25:50 GMT

And if we offer suggestions that you use will we receive a Netbook as well?

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Lewis Benge — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:32:36 GMT

Hey Jeff,

How about making some use of the Side-bar widgets? I would say a Twitter widget, and RSS feeds from the event would be good. With the increase hype around social collaboration at the event it would be good to put something into the Netbook to enhance the experience for people (like me) who haven't got around to purchasing a smart-phone device.

Would be happy to help with the dev work if you need a hand with the turn around.

Thanks,

Lewis

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Matto — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:33:25 GMT

Coolest.

Bribe.

Evar.

Works for me - just chased up my manager to ensure that my pre-reg gets paid and my place gets locked in ASAP!

As you said Jeff - my 2008 bag is still doing great duty, but a netbook - that's awesome. Just a really geeky & pointless question - are you going to co-brand them? Maybe laser-etch the lid with HP & MS TechEd 2009 logos, something like that?

As far as suggestions for the content on them, I still use my old Tech Ed DVD sets quite a bit. It's annoying that last year's DVD contents pages don't work anymore with the whole Silverlight/beta thing, so my suggestion would be to pre-load the entire DVD set onto the laptop, with some form of easy front end to navigate them. That would be something that I would use frequently, and would really benefit from being able to take with me.

This would also have the side benefit of saving MS money in making/giving away the separate DVD sets, and would be a little eco-friendly, in the reduced physical media + supply chain requirements.

Other than that, +1 vote for cool, unspecified sidebar widgets. :)

Good luck with the build!

Matto :)

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Tim Carson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:44:30 GMT

Found out last Friday work was not sending me to Tech Ed this year. (bad)

Had already decided I would pay my own way if need be, so I started sign up process yesterday. (good)

Netbook offer popped up while I was signing up. (AWESOME!)

Looking forward to TE2009!!

Tim

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Ian Lockhart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:33:03 GMT

Jeff,

I'm in the same boat as Tim and have followed the exact same path (even to the point of my response to finding out about the Netbook;-).

Perhaps you might consider including some/all the available documentation, etc, for Windows 7 so that it is instantly available (perhaps to then be able to spend time reading it on the flight home afterward).

Ian

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Tim Carson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:37:48 GMT

I remember MS used to do "Notes From the Field" books.

I'd like to see (as Cliff mentioned) the "how we did it" doco.

I think a lot of IT Pros would be able to take that info, scale it down (if needed), and use it as a way to plan their own rollouts.

Cheers,

Tim

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Kyle Rosenthal — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:13:51 GMT

@matto - the teched DVD's from last year can still be made to work. Laurent Duveau has created a fix so you can use them again - http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2009/02/11/the-teched-2008-north-america-dvd-fix-you-ve-been-waiting-for.aspx

cheers

kyle

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Matto — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:25:47 GMT

@Kyle - Awesome! I'd been using the site here : http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/10/31/teched-north-america-dvd-silverlight-update.aspx to sort everything out, but having a local HTML file will be even better!

Thanks for the tip-off!

Matto :)

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danbuche — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:00:57 GMT

Currently working with Jeff on the build for this netbook. By the way - @Orin: XP mode will not be available due to hardware restrictions on the machine (no hardware assisted virtualisation...)