The details for the TechDays events in Galway, Cork, Dublin and Belfast are being locked in. Places are disappearing fast. If this is something you want to go to then register now. The venues are large but early registration took up lots of the places.
I’ll be doing 3 of the sessions over the 4 days:
- The Accidental DBA: (Galway and Belfast) I’ll introduce the subject. It’s a common scenario. You’re an IT Pro that looks after SharePoint and has some things like WSUS, ConfigMgr, OpsMgr, etc. Do you know how to take care of the security, backup/recovery, fault tolerance, etc, of your SQL? It’s based on a concept and a term used by Mark Minasi back in 2004 for admins who had to deal with lots of MSDE installations on their network. SQL MVP Niall Flanagan will present the meat of this one.
- Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 working Great Together and WS 2008 R2 Virtualisation (Cork, Dublin and Belfast): I’ll be doing the presentations and Dave Northey from MS Ireland will be doing the demos. Yes, you will get to see Hyper-V Live Migration in action. I’ll also be explaining how it works behind the scenes. MS and a sponsor are making a great deal of effort to make these demonstrations something special.
- Windows 7 and Digital Photography: (Dublin and Belfast) This is part of the “IT Pro Microsoft @ Home” sessions that have separate schedules and registrations. When I’m not in front of a computer bashing away at servers with my ample forehead, I’m out an about with my camera, playing at being a photographer. I’ll be showing how you can use Windows 7 to assist with your digital photography. I used it last night at the photography club that I help run and it impressed people.
The range of speakers at the events is impressive. And it isn’t just the “usual” names and faces.
The session “An Introduction to Windows 7 and Quick Overview of Client Deployment Tools” will be presented by Rhonda Layfield, author, journalist, trainer, speaker, deployment MVP, hostess extraordinaire … known by some of us as the Queen of Deployment. What Rhonda doesn’t know about deploying operating systems doesn’t need to be known. She’s always ahead of the pack and has worked in some huge organisations. This will be an excellent session that will give you the foundation to start looking at how to deploy Windows 7 when it is released.