Logistics at TechEd

Good morning,

It is now Thursday and it is amazing how these three days have rushed by.  I just wanted to give people an idea of the organisation that has gone into this event.

There are PCs everywhere, from the highly restricted 'feedback terminals' to the work terminals that you sign in with your MS events web site login.  Furthermore, they have an exchange server here so you can email any delegate and search by name / company.  When you launch outlook on one of these work PCs it will autodiscover your identity and set up your MAPI profile, there is full roaming profile support and you always print to the nearest printer.

Of course none of this is really rocket science, however it is still mightily impressive.  There is a session on Friday that describes how MSIT (the Microsoft internal IT department) created the infrastructure we have here.  I might go along.

All this is an IT perspective but to be honest the way that the lunch is organised is just as impressive, this is really the feeding of the 5000.  In an hour and a half.

Adiós

Comments

[Dan Germain]

Hi Matt - Has there been a TechNet party night yet?

[Matthew White]

Oh yes... :(