Yesterday was a very long day for me.\u00a0 I was up until 1:00 that morning, completing presentations\/demo lab builds, and sorting out registrations.\u00a0 After 4 hours sleep, I trekked into Dublin to start the event setup in the Guiness Storehouse with Paul Keely (OpsMgr MVP) and John McCabe (lead organiser for this event).<\/p>\n
I don’t have the final tally on attendance, but it was around 165 when we kicked off.\u00a0 More people came along as the day progressed.\u00a0 We had three active rooms: Systems Management (Paul), Windows\/Office 2010 deployment (Me), and cloud for the IT Pro (John).\u00a0 All were busy.\u00a0 I did two sessions: MAP 5.5 in the morning, and MDT 2010 Update 1 after lunch.\u00a0 My room was nearly full.\u00a0 The cloud room, as I predicted, needed more chairs.\u00a0 It was the first time that MS cloud content was presented with an IT pro angle; it’s all been SQL, .NET, etc, content\u00a0since the CTP days which we have zero interest in.<\/p>\n
Ergo and Plantronics were the sponsors, with MS being a partner for the event.\u00a0 That gave us a great venue and coffee\/lunch.\u00a0 So far, feedback has been awesome.\u00a0 We had talked about a follow up, bigger event in May, leaving the decision until yesterday.\u00a0 We made up our minds and we announced that another event would take place in May.\u00a0 Meetings for that start on Monday week.\u00a0 I’ve got a concept for the Windows track that I think is quite current.<\/p>\n
Thanks once again to my fellow organisers, the sponsors, the speakers, and those who came along.\u00a0 Hope to see you again in May!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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