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#11844 14-Feb-2007 15:34

On the 7th (Auckland), 14th (Wellington) & 21st (Christchurch) of March, is the 2007 Technical Briefing from Microsoft.

Anyone been to one of these before? Did you enjoy it, and find it worthwhile?

I have enjoyed and utilised other Microsoft events, and behind the hype & sales pitch, they are still pretty packed with useful information.

I have decided to attend the Wellington event. I will be driving down (too tall for planes...) from Hawkes Bay. Im willing to take one or two people down if you are looking to go from Hawkes Bay / Manawatu.

Registration is $199

http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/techbrief/default.mspx

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#60794 14-Feb-2007 17:16

Maybe I should join you... except that I may go to Christchurch one... :-D

I have been to other Microsoft TechNet seminar and they've been pretty informative. I also usually go for the swag/goodies too. :-D

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#60796 14-Feb-2007 17:30

$199 + GST is cheap for a copy of Vista Ultimate even if you do sleep through the presentation! :-)

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#60804 14-Feb-2007 18:23

Im thinking about taking Office instead... its worth more, and I have a $150 Home Premium on the way, and plan to win a copy of Vista in the video comp... :-P

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#60972 16-Feb-2007 01:21

200 big ones??? Last time I went to a technet it was free!!

wtfomlmaoleoplaneROTFL?!?!

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#61230 19-Feb-2007 15:03

yip i signed up for this last week. when i saw the "attendees will receive a copy of windows vista ultimate or office 2007....i was like "ok, i'm sold....hey boss do you want to pay for this for me please" haha. lovely, can't wait should be a good day!

i too am going to the wellington one!

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#61846 24-Feb-2007 15:33

weblordpepe: 200 big ones??? Last time I went to a technet it was free!!

wtfomlmaoleoplaneROTFL?!?!

This isn't a TechNet event! TechNet events ARE free :)

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#63481 12-Mar-2007 13:55

Well I'm registered for Chch's

The tracks that I will be attending are as followed:

Almost Everything You Need To Know About Windows Vista Deployment
Virtualization On The Microsoft Platform
Enterprise Search
SharePoint Deployment
A Developers Overview Of SharePoint 2007
The Next Wave Has Arrived Why Should You Care?

Hope to see some of the Chch's GZers there too.

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#63488 12-Mar-2007 16:00

Im off to the Welly event on Wednesday. Come and say hi if you see me there - Im the tallest person in the room (6ft 7in). (If that fails, try the second tallest - but hey - what are the odds....)

My tracks...

- The next wave has arrived but why should you care?
- Exchange 2007 Overview
- Exchange 2007 Deployment
- Application Lifecycle Management Clinic
- SharePoint Deployment
- Overview Management Tools

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#63516 13-Mar-2007 02:46

A technical breifing isnt a technet thing? Ok I'm confused. Wake me up when MS is hosting free sandwiches and stuff again.

It was quite fun last time I went to one. Only for a novelty though. One must remember it is basically a sales-thing. It was like being in church. I think I even scribbled on the back of their folder thing a picture of a church with the Windows logo on it.

Got to learn alot about what MS was doing at the time. They had just heard about 'off by default' when I was there last, and they were showing of ACLs for programming APIs. At least thats what I remember. I was too busy drawing.

I won a free copy of Office 2003 though. I sold it to some sucker for hundreds of dollars on Trademe. Thanks MS.

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#63518 13-Mar-2007 04:32

weblordpepe: Got to learn alot about what MS was doing at the time. They had just heard about 'off by default' when I was there last, and they were showing of ACLs for programming APIs. At least thats what I remember. I was too busy drawing.

I won a free copy of Office 2003 though. I sold it to some sucker for hundreds of dollars on Trademe. Thanks MS.

C'mon... Then you want us to trust your opinion on operating systems? I know what to ignore next time I read someone talking about Mac OS so highly in the #geekzone chat now...

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#63630 13-Mar-2007 19:17

Me? Trusting opinions about operating sytems? Wha? Off-topic.
Anyways Technet was pretty cool.

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#63669 14-Mar-2007 08:05

i'm fairly sure trademe have been given the heads up on reselling of todays freebies

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#63726 14-Mar-2007 18:29

well that was a worthwhile day!

the content of the presentations was outstanding - not too much "buy microsoft RA RA RA" at all - except for the keynote perhaps! some quality presenters too, although the virtualisation guy did suffer from superspeedyspeechsyndrome and lacked personality....from sitting near the back i could see the whole auditorium start to get jittery about half way through and until the end of his section :)

lunch was superb - well done Duxton for that! i found the exchange and sharepoints sections to be particularly useful and interesting!

now i just have to wait for safenet to update their vpn software before i can install vista on my laptop :) hurrrrrryyyyyyyyy!!!!

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#63757 14-Mar-2007 22:35

Anyone with a spare copy of vista should send it to:
A.......

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#63771 15-Mar-2007 06:33

Has anyone else noticed that you did not in fact get one key for vista but two??!!

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