TechEd 2012 North America: What I Learned From Day One

It so happened that the first day of TechEd 2012 North America was largely dedicated to server technology. To summarize what was interesting on the first day, many undertook, including Ben Rubinstein, editor of SearchWindowsServer.com magazine: itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/windows-server/lessons-learned-from-teched-2012-day-1 . We give a translation of his message from the conference.

At TechEd, we constantly learn something ... However, the expected coincides with the real. On the first day in Orlando, Florida, we learned a lot, and not only about the release of the new Windows Intuite, CTP2 System Center 2012 SP1 and Hyper-V 2012 (Release Candidate), but also about many other
things . Here are just some funny moments:
1. Incredible speed.Jeff Woolsey, the Microsoft Virtualization Program manager, got the most attention by transferring a 10 gigabyte file in ten seconds using Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V. Conference participants were amazed; and most of the time, Jeff answered questions about Hyper-V.
2. Funny Mark Russinovich (which, incidentally, is expected at TechEd 2012 Russia in November - ed.). His part of the presentation on Windows Azure constantly generated laughter from the audience. For example, “No, we were not hacked; Azure truly supports Linux as a guest operating system. ”
3. Real-time crowdsourcing is dangerous.Scott Guthrie created the Azure web application during the presentation and shared the mailbox with the audience. At the same time, everything was broadcast on the big screen, where “special” notes appeared, from the mocking SQL injection to the frank question “Who farted?”.
4. Apple is ok. A series of demonstrations took place on iPhones, along with other devices. It’s quite logical, taking into account the number of macbooks and iPads in the audience.
5. More and more Powershell. The fact that Powershell is receiving more and more attention on Microsoft systems is not news. However, the addition of TechEd’s second PowerShell Crash Course section by Don Jones and Jeffrey Snover suggests that IT professionals are actually beginning to realize that Powershell’s ignorance may affect their careers.
6. People are unhappy with the tests. Not everyone understands how (and why) Microsoft has changed its certification program. In the meantime, one could observe how a huge number of people tried to pass all kinds of tests on the first day - in order to fill their resume with a similar fact.
7. Twitter is complicated. The section “Social Media for Business” discussed the pros and cons of supporting social media activity from an IT perspective. The most important insight is the expansion of social media, compare the transition from single-core to multi-core processors.
8. “It is impossible to attract too much attention.” Lotteries, card tricks, a guy on a unicycle and much more - this year vendors went to all possible tricks to attract more visitors to their stands.

And after all this, I would like to know about the official release dates of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 ...

Let’s add about ourselves that on the 11th there was a rather interesting report on Dynamic Access Control from Gunjan Jain, Nir Ben Zvi. We will review detailed information about the innovations in the near future in a new post about the file server audit system in Windows Server 2012.