Attended the NYC Launch Event for Windows Server 2008

Hello All,

I attended the NYC Launch Event for Windows Server 2008 and while it was interesting (RemoteApp & beta look of Hyper-V), the venue really brought down the entire experience due to organization and layout. Some examples were finding different things (e.g. user group areas, hands on demo, etc) and making my way through the vendor areas. Microsoft should realize this is not the venue to use in the future. Also, the NFR software provided was a let-down. The only real piece of software provided that was non-crippled was Vista Ultimate w/SP1 & Visual Studio 2008 (I'm not a dev, so this isn't very useful to me). Nice, but we all received Vista a year ago or so at the Vista Launch. Oops. :-) So, a copy of Windows 2008 Server was expected. I'll be donating the NFR software to the user group at our upcoming meeting. On that note....

Our upcoming meeting for Tue, March 11 is a vendor presented Exchange auditing solution by StealthBITS. Keep track of Exchange Server changes via this solution. They are also sponsoring the meeting. Another major announcement for the meeting is my company donated an Xbox 360 Arcade System (includes 5 games) to be raffle off. So, you don't want to miss this meeting. Visit www.nyexug.com to RSVP to the meeting.

-Ben