First two day recap at Admin2004
Tags :Travel
(view from hotel window upon arrival, more
pics posted to the Yahoo
site shortly)
Arrival at Admin2004 brought a flurry of
activity getting lab machines ready for the new and expanded hands-on portions
that is offered to attendees. I had a 3 hour jumpstart on Tue running
84 live Sametime servers to prepare and then a repeating SMTP configuration
workshop that reuses some of the laptops from another room. Quite
the undertaking and good job on the part of the staff.
Of course by now everyone has seen Ed's
blog updates around the big announcements on Workplace that are going on.
So I wont' even go there. But I can tell you we are playing
with Workplace 2 in another hands-on lab (given by Jason Collier of Certfx)
had it's own up's and downs. The code is still in beta of course,
so you never expect speedy performance. But he was unfortunately
forced to run the whole thing on a last minute laptop instead of a full
server. Kudos for the try, but the hands-on people get frustrated
when they can't play. I say that from experience in my labs this
week when a machine wouldn't work for someone suddenly or they couldn't
test a feature, Overall I give the conference over an 8 out of 10
to date. With two more days to go, I expect to reach that 9. Everything
has been pretty well laid out, good staffing, well fed and great tech info.
McGivney
has a session bright and shiny tomorrow I am trying to get up for. Who
am I kidding, look at this post time and add an hour for Eastern Time.
I am trying, really.
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On Thursday, May 13th, 2004 by Chris Miller
