{"id":17238,"date":"2014-10-23T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T09:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17238"},"modified":"2014-10-23T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T09:28:36","slug":"here-comes-teched-europe-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17238","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes TechEd Europe 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been crazy for me lately. I\u2019ve spent near 100% of the last 3 months at work (and a lot at home) working on material for lots of different Azure educational events. And in addition to that, I\u2019ve been preparing my session for TechEd Europe, starting with the keynote at 08:30 in Barcelona (Spain, CET) on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/germany\/technical-summit\/renderingassets\/teched-europe-2014-bottom.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"88\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am there as a speaker this year, so I will not be in the media pit, and I might not even get into the keynote hall at all! I will be <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?tag=eventnotes\" target=\"_blank\">live blogging<\/a> in any case, and I will also be attending lots and lots of sessions, mostly on Windows Server vNext Hyper-V, storage, and networking, and plenty of Azure too. I\u2019ll be doing my best to live blog those sessions that I attend. I will also be covering virtualization and related content for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\" target=\"_blank\">Petri.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My tools of choice this time around are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toshiba KIRAbook (Windows 10 Technical Preview): The battery life is incredible in this machine.<\/li>\n<li>OneNote: This is my preferred tool of choice for note taking.<\/li>\n<li>Windows Live Writer: I\u2019m blogging and this is how I publish to my site.<\/li>\n<li>Canon 1D mk IV and 24-70 L IS mk II: A good camera is useful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I am presenting, so that\u2019s a big focus point for me. My session is all about squeezing the most our of Hyper-V. I\u2019ve got information about features of Hyper-V that you might not know about or have been afraid to try. I\u2019ll dive into some of the mechanisms used to enable some of those amazing demos of the recent past. And I have LOTS of demos (10 as it stands at the moment).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/as_thumb.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So come along to <a href=\"http:\/\/teeu2014.eventpoint.com\/topic\/details\/CDP-B329\">CDP-B329 From Demo to Reality: Best Practices Learned from Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V<\/a> \u2013 it\u2019s a fine big room with 1100 seats to fill!!!! That\u2019s pressure, but it\u2019s nothing compared to competing in Speaker Idol (5 minutes is hell!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been crazy for me lately. I\u2019ve spent near 100% of the last 3 months at work (and a lot at home) working on material for lots of different Azure educational events. And in addition to that, I\u2019ve been preparing my session for TechEd Europe, starting with the keynote at 08:30 in Barcelona (Spain, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here Comes TechEd Europe 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-17238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17241,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions\/17241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}