There were three main session types at TechEd Europe 2014. Here’s an overview. “Lecture” Style Sessions. Comprising of the Keynote at the start of the week, the Foundational Sessions which followed it, and the Breakout sessions which made up the majority of the week’s content, these involved somewhere between a hundred …

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WIN-B328 An interesting session from Dell Tools Strategist Greg Ramsey. I’m keeping up my practise of 5 highlights even though this was a “Top 10” talk :) KISS- Start simple and work your way to complexity. My experience of an overly-complicated SCCM deployment definitely supports this theory. From SCCM2012 SP1 onwards …

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WIN-B338-R A session on deployment options for Windows 10 with Michael Niehaus from Microsoft. Here’s my top 5 notes: New in Windows 10 is the end of the requirement for wipe and reload in the enterprise and introduces the possibility of doing a managed in-place upgrade in a corporate environment. There’s good …

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FDN03 - Optimizing Your Datacenter with Windows Server, System Center, and Microsoft Azure Another big session that generated loads of notes in my OneNote and here are my Five Highlights.. CPS- The Azure-in-your-datacentre offering. This takes all the best practice and lessons learned to provide an optimised …

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DBI-B220 - Introduction to SQL Server Management for the Non-DBA A very interesting and entertaining session to round off Tuesday. This covered the things IT Pros need to do when they need to run SQL Server- backups, restores, checking for corruption, and more. Here are my 5 key points from the session. This was …

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TechEd Europe kicks off here- as I said in my previous post, I’m going to try and get 5 key points from each session I attend. We’ll see how that goes, but I should be able to keep it up for the first session! The Keynote kicked off the Barcelona event with not one, but two Corporate Vice Presidents. Jason Zander, …

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After years of trying to get a place, I’m lucky enough to be spending the coming week at the premier Microsoft conference for Dev’s and IT Pro’s this side of the Atlantic- TechEd Europe 2014. It’s Europe’s largest annual tech conference and there’s a lot of content on offer- over 600 sessions to choose from during the …

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