{"id":10585,"date":"2010-05-10T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10585"},"modified":"2010-05-10T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:43:00","slug":"minasi-conference-2010-my-vmm-2008-r2-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10585","title":{"rendered":"Minasi Conference 2010 \u2013 My VMM 2008 R2 Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I flew back home from Minasi Conference 2010 over the weekend.&#160; The line up and variety of speakers was impressive.&#160; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roger Grimes (security guru at MS) pulled a Todd Lammle and scared the ***** out of us, basically saying that there\u2019s no defence against most of the threats on the Internet now other than pure dumb luck.&#160; For example, much of the advertising that is online contains attacks.&#160; You might think you are on a safe site but they simply auction of advertising space which is infected.&#160; A certain \u201cfair and balanced\u201d right-wing American news site was mentioned.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Riley came and did a sales pitch on Amazon.&#160; We go the stock answers on compliance with European data protection acts.&#160; Sure \u2013 they won\u2019t handover data to the US government when pressured to do so ;-)&#160; Strange \u2013 Steve did mention that AWS does keep 30 days of your database transaction logs \u2026 purely for your own good, of course.<\/li>\n<li>Eric B. Rux did a couple of sessions; one on Home Server and the other on getting into writing.&#160; The latter was interesting because a number of us in the audience (authors, editors, journalists) were able to contribute.<\/li>\n<li>Todd Lammle did a pre-conference training class that proved to be quite popular and extremely good value.&#160; All attendees got two copies of his books.<\/li>\n<li>Claus Neilson caused a few jaws to drop with his PowerShell presentation.&#160; I was impressed with an audit script he had that populated an open spreadsheet in Excel.<\/li>\n<li>Michael B. Smith did an afternoon on how to get from W2003 AD and Exchange 2003 to W2008 R2 AD and Exchange 2010.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>Laura E. Hunter (now joining MS internal IT) did a session on Forefront Identity Manager. <\/li>\n<li>And of course, Mark Minasi did a few sessions, including (as usual) a preview of what he\u2019s working on for future classes and the upcoming conference season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">I did a presentation on System Center Virtual Machine Manager.&#160; It\u2019s something that could take 2 days but I squeezed in the essentials into 70 minutes.&#160; My slide deck is online at Slideshare (below).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"width: 425px\" id=\"__ss_4039217\"><strong style=\"margin: 12px 0px 4px; display: block\"><a title=\"Minasi Conference 2010 - Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/joe_elway\/minasi-conference-2010-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2\">Minasi Conference 2010 &#8211; Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2<\/a><\/strong><object id=\"__sse4039217\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=vmm2008r2-minasiforum2010-100510110145-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=minasi-conference-2010-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object>      <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px\">View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/joe_elway\">Aidan Finn<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unusually for me, I was able to get this done a little ahead of time.&#160; I did go through my demo (the end-to-end of a VM\u2019s life cycle, templates, delegation, and self service) pretty quickly.&#160; That allowed me to talk about where organizations can go in the future with Hyper-V.&#160; Visual Studio empowers the tester\/developer to work with Hyper-V via the environment\/tools that they are comfortable with.&#160; VMM v.Next\u2019s new App-V for Servers support, patching without reboot potential for VM\u2019s, and model deployment.&#160; All this opened a few eyes.&#160; The idea of self service from VMM 2008 R2 onwards really made quite a few people think because they hadn\u2019t heard of it before \u2013 and I\u2019m talking about respected MVP\u2019s!<\/p>\n<p>My slides are just a cue card for me so there\u2019s not much content in there.&#160; As you\u2019ll see, I just mentioned the new features coming in W2008 R2 SP1 for Hyper-V.&#160; There was no discussion on how the stuff works.&#160; Keep an eye on the MS Virtualization blog and Ben Armstrong\u2019s (Virtual PC Guy) for that info.&#160; My animations won\u2019t work in this either.&#160; That\u2019s a pity; they made Avatar pale in comparison.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/JimiVMeatMinasi2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"JimiV Me at Minasi2010\" border=\"0\" alt=\"JimiV Me at Minasi2010\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/JimiVMeatMinasi2010_thumb.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimivphoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Picture by JimiV<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good time was had.&#160; The newcomers all commented on how weird it was to be at an IT conference where there was a social atmosphere.&#160; Most of us know each other at this event so there\u2019s always something going on somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>My next appearance will be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubforum.info\/welcome\/GrandPubForum2010Frankfurt\/tabid\/93\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">PubForum 2010<\/a> in Frankfurt in June.&#160;&#160; It\u2019s another \u201csmall\u201d conference that is very low cost for the attendees.&#160; The speakers are \u2026 wow!&#160; There is a lot of stuff happening at it this year.&#160; I\u2019m doing a 2 hour class on Hyper-V best practices and I\u2019m also doing a 1 hour session on the new stuff in Hyper-V.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8bda487a-91fd-43f9-b8d5-0ebc65908210\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMM\" rel=\"tag\">VMM<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flew back home from Minasi Conference 2010 over the weekend.&#160; 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