It’s that time of year again…for the first time. Monday
night will herald the first AuTechHeads Melbourne MeatupTM. We hope
you can join us for what is sure to be the first of many fantastic foody and
geeky occasions. There's a rumour floating around that the one and only Mr Jeff
"Jeffa" Alexander, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist, will be joining us
for the festivities. Please come along for a fun evening of geekery and eatery!
Yes, we know it's next Monday, and a school night, but
hopefully ...
It’s that time of year again…for the first time. Monday
night will herald the first AuTechHeads Melbourne MeatupTM. We hope
you can join us for what is sure to be the first of many fantastic foody and
geeky occasions. There's a rumour floating around that the one and only Mr Jeff
"Jeffa" Alexander, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist, will be joining us
for the festivities. Please come along for a fun evening of geekery and eatery!
Yes, we know it's next Monday, and a school night, but
hopefully we will see you there!
Venue has been confirmed as Squires Loft City Steakhouse at
12 Goldie Place, Melbourne 3000, booked for 7.30PM. RSVP is mandatory for numbers reasons, so
please use the registration form below or tweet us. Please hit either @hjmcmanus or @chrisbrownie
up on Twitter.
Officical hashtag is #MelbourneMeatUp so check it out!
Link to map of venue here.
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So, a few miffed tweets and a blog post or two, and I find myself picked up by itnews.com.au (totally without my knowledge, mind!), and the story grows legs, and takes off all on its own. That said, I stand by what I have written, and I firmly believe that I have delivered an even handed and fair appraisal of what occurred from my personal perspective surrounding the issues with the Pre-Conference Technical Training at Tech.Ed Australia 2011. Bottom line, most delegates in the training did n ...
So, a few miffed tweets and a blog post or two, and I find myself picked up by itnews.com.au (totally without my knowledge, mind!), and the story grows legs, and takes off all on its own. That said, I stand by what I have written, and I firmly believe that I have delivered an even handed and fair appraisal of what occurred from my personal perspective surrounding the issues with the Pre-Conference Technical Training at Tech.Ed Australia 2011. Bottom line, most delegates in the training did not get what they paid for.
Technical failures happen. In our industry, we all have to deal with them. In a previous blog, I made mention of the fact that a great organisation is made by how they respond to this sort of event.
As a result of my blogs and tweets, I had some chats and emails with people from Microsoft such as Jeff Alexander and Sarah Vaughan. Both of these guys made every effort to apologise and to make sure that I was listened too and responded too ap ...
OK, so the journey continues on my Tech.Ed Australia adventure for 2011, and I must say that things are one heck of a lot better than yesterday. Those that have been playing along from home, or keeping tabs via this site or on Twitter will have read from yesterday's blog that things did not get off to a very good start with the Pre Conference Technical Training Labs.
Attendees were basically served up crashing VMs, couldn't log on, or were forced to sit through an unfortunate barrage of 'Death by Pow ...
OK, so the journey continues on my Tech.Ed Australia adventure for 2011, and I must say that things are one heck of a lot better than yesterday. Those that have been playing along from home, or keeping tabs via this site or on Twitter will have read from yesterday's blog that things did not get off to a very good start with the Pre Conference Technical Training Labs.
Attendees were basically served up crashing VMs, couldn't log on, or were forced to sit through an unfortunate barrage of 'Death by PowerPoint' sessions as a result of the SAN running the VMs having a hardware failure. The trainers all did a great job of trying to save face and deliver meaningful content to the attendees, but at the end of the day, none of us paid the aforementioned $715.00 to attend a PowerPoint slide-deck-fest.
This morning, things were markedly different. On arrival in my lab, I noted that the workstations we were using had been re imaged overnight to include all labs on ...
So my Tech.Ed Australia adventure is off to a very bumpy start so far. I, along with a few hundred others, paid the princely sum of $715.00 (plus extra accommodation, food etc) to attend what should have been two fully packed days of learning and tech geekery. Instead, we encountered death by PowerPoint, error messages such as "SYSTEM IS FULL - All of our available lab connections are in use at the moment, Please check back at a later time" and generally high levels of nerd-rage and fr ...
So my Tech.Ed Australia adventure is off to a very bumpy start so far. I, along with a few hundred others, paid the princely sum of $715.00 (plus extra accommodation, food etc) to attend what should have been two fully packed days of learning and tech geekery. Instead, we encountered death by PowerPoint, error messages such as "SYSTEM IS FULL - All of our available lab connections are in use at the moment, Please check back at a later time" and generally high levels of nerd-rage and frustration.
The day started off fairly normally - there was an introductory session, and info on the new stuff, complete with complex Visio diagrams and verbose PowerPoint slides. We then progressed onto the first of the lab sessions, of which we were expected to complete three in around an hour and a half. Simple stuff like adding server roles, creating users and OUs in AD. Instead, we were served up with endless loading/progress bars, VMs that wouldn't start, and generally ...