Day 4

Yesterday was a really cool day here in Berlin. It was the first full day of TechEd with lots of sessions and activities.
In the morning I attended a session with Jeff Wettlaufer regarding ConfigMgr SP2 and R3. He was showing the new power management capabilities it delivers and also the new fast collection evaluation options. With this last features you will see that new resources will be added to a collection more quicker. Another interesting feature is Delta Active Directory discovery. You can provide an extra schedule for that so that changes on already discovered objects are much quicker detected by ConfigMgr.

R3 is very popular as we already have 604 TAP nominations at this time. I will write some additional posts regarding R3 in upcoming weeks.

In the afternoon I was ‘Ask the Expert’ (ATE) at the ConfigMgr booth. It was very busy with lots of interesting questions from attendees. I was there for 3 hours but it felt like 30 minutes because I really enjoyed discussing and sharing the same passion for ConfigMgr.

After the ATE session we went back to our apartment and eat some pizza. In the night I went with Samuel to the Community party at the Watergate Club in Berlin. I met a lot of MVPs including Torsten Meringer (ConfigMgr MVP) and we also met Daniel van Soest and Tony Krijnen. I think there were about 65 people and around 20 ‘Dutchies’! So great score for Holland there!

I finally went back around1:30PM and was really tired of this busy but really impressive day!

Day 5

I had to wake up early to attend the ConfigMgr vNext session with Bill Anderson and Jeffrey Sutherland. The session was completely full which once again shows the popularity of this product. The session discussed new features which were also discussed in the session on the MMS this year.

After that I had a lunch meeting with some other Dutch attendees and went to meet some of the ConfigMgr MVPs at the ATE booth. I will attend another session regarding ConfigMgr vNext later this day.

In the evening I have planned a ConfigMgr dinner with the guys of Microsoft Redmond and the ConfigMgr MVPs. I think we have about 11 people who will join this dinner. I’m really looking forward to it!