Tech Ed 2006 - Wednesday

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Posted by Jim on Jun 14, 2006 78 views

This was my first day at the convention center except for Sunday’s keynotes. The facilities here in Boston are certaintly able to handle the TechEd crowd of 12,000+ people. The food hall is bright and airy, with tables not cramped together. As always, planning lets the group stay together. In this case the group has been going to the back wall food line and getting a table in the section of the floor.

My bus is not on the route, so I had to walk across the construction and a block down and over to the Hyatt, then told to go back 2 blocks to the Langham. Construction on the side streets made it impossible for the 45′ buses to get around to the Hyatt.

Breakfast was syncing up with everyone, and comparing notes on the cruise and their dinner at Barking Crab.

I spent the morning working around the labs. I get a kick out of all of the security and the lab binders chained to the tables.

Ran into Eric Kamor working at the Microsoft Management kiosk. He did a engaing job with a customer asking a lengthy list of System Center questions. We talked for a bit about the next version of SMS and the changes in R2 around software distribution and the ITCU for patch distribution.

Lunch was burgers and corn on the cob stuff. Not bad at all.

My afternoon was spent doing email, and talking to vendors in the vendor expo area. Some very interesting products in the operations space to see.

Dinner was a mix of things. The group was doing Flannighan’s Steak House, a few friends were here for dinners and an MVP dinner, and two former customers were here alone looking for something to do. Tried to catch everything but time slows for no one.