My second day of back to back meetings and presentations.
TUT 317 – ZENworks Linux Management best practices and TUT 315 – ZENworks Patch Management best practices
Lots of time preparing for the Thursday keynote. Just sitting back stage – and there are some incredible demos in store.
(Session download information: User name: cb_novell, Password: n0ve11)
A busy day. I will post photos later today!
Sunrise:
Up early for a final run through of the keynote. All went well – I co-presented with Alan Murray; we covered ZENworks 7, ZENworks 7 Linux Management and ZENworks 7 Asset Management. Everything worked well – and we were exactly within our time allocation.
More sessions this afternoon – TUT 217 – ZENworks Architecture overview and future, TUT 223 – Managing NLD with ZLM and finally TUT 317 – ZENworks Linux Management best practices.
(Session download information: User name: cb_novell, Password: n0ve11)
Day 1 of BrainShare – and it feels like day 5 already!
I arrived in Barcelona on Friday and spent the whole of Saturday training our EMEA Category Specialists and Consultants. That was fun. It was great to see some familiar faces again.
Today I was building the keynote demo for the Tuesday keynote – all of the usual fun.
I also presented my first session of the week – TUT 315 – ZENworks Patch Management best practices.
(Session download information: User name: cb_novell, Password: n0ve11)
I finally finished the evening rehearsing the keynote – late night again. I missed the ZENworks Community of Practice dinner – which was sad.
I blogged from BrainShare in SLC about building a keynote demo.
The keynote we build for BrainShare in March was based on pre-release code; an early beta of ZENworks 7 Linux Management and a hastily rebranded early look at ZENworks Asset Management.
Things are a lot easier this time – we now have shipping product to demo with – and I am using the fantastic integrated demo system from Doc Hodges. I’ve got a few good workstations and VMware images.
I’ll take some more screen shots and share them online.
Robert Scoble had an interesting post on blogging at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference:
A new kind of conference experience from the inside
You know, for a conference team, blogs have really changed how we can watch the customer’s experience. We’re hitting the blogs a lot to see what people are reporting. Since there’s 1,000 bloggers here, if there’s a problem it’s very likely to get blogged before we even know about it. The scale of the PDC is just huge. It takes something like 15 minutes to walk from one end of the hall to the other and really the customer experience is all over the city. If you aren’t having a good experience in your hotel, for instance, it reflects poorly on the conference. Often times we can help if we know but in the old days a conference team wouldn’t be able to see these kinds of problems in real time.
Interesting. I’ll see how many people are here at BrainShare Barcelona blogging – certainly this looks interesting for BrainShare in SLC next year.
I keep getting asked about updates to the ZENworks Desktop Imaging engine – specifically driver support and the like.
There is a cool project on the Novell forge site – that hosts new drivers, lots of docs and complete ISOs of the environment. It’s here – http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?zfdimgdrv
Point to note – in ZENworks 7 – we moved to a SLES9 based distro for imaging – so driver support is vastly improved.
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