Deployment MVP, speaker, journalist, consultant, and author, Rhonda Layfield is running a deployment workshop in Las Vegas on March 17th-19th. It’s 2 and a half days with a person who knows this stuff inside-out. If you’re a techie getting ready for a desktop deployment, a consultant who’ll probably do Windows 7 deployments this year, or an engagements manager with staff who should know this stuff then this is the best way to kept them up to speed with the MS technologies and approved ways to do this work.
Rhonda doesn’t stop there. She always goes on to explain the “edge scenarios”, e.g. what happens when drivers aren’t there, WDS deployments are slow, etc. Rhonda has done deployment projects for some huge organisations in the USA so she knows what she’s talking about. This will be totally unlike attending some MOC course or a MS partner training day. This is real at-the-coalface teaching from someone who has been there and done that.
Rhonda is the sort of person you want to teach you because she personally invests herself in each and every session she does. I’ve seen how much work she invests in sessions the days leading up to them … even if they are repeat sessions, Rhonda will be constantly looking for ways to tune them, give better explanations, more information, etc.
The costs are actually pretty low. The 2.5 days cost $835 which is around the cost of a MS partner training course in Ireland when you take the exchange rate into account. Flights to Vegas are economic (Delta via Atlanta), and the Bellagio hotel will cost €150 a night. Lunch and unlimited coffee are free for 2 days. There will also be a cocktail hour. Mark Minasi and Paul Thurrott will be attending so that’s 3 of the biggest brains around to bounce questions off of which is a unique opportunity. I’ve never met Paul but if he’s like Mark and Rhonda, you’ll get your questions answered by someone approachable and friendly – and knowledgeable.
It also happens to be St. Patricks weekend and the bar to be at in Vegas will be in New York, New York, just a short stroll away. Their rooms can be cheap if you book ahead. I can’t remember the name of the older hotel just diagonally across from NY, NY on that junction but it’s decent and very cheap.
So go check out the Deployment Workshop. I personally think it’s a great looking course, full of info and with a great teacher. Rhonda did one session at TechEd Europe last year … and then was asked to repeat it due to popular demand later in the week. That, I promise you, does not happen by accident. So imagine what you’d get out of 2.5 days of material!