TEC2010 – Los Angeles – Feedback
Posted on 04. May, 2010 by Nicolas Blank in News
TEC 2010 – The Experts Conference in Los Angeles. What a trip (well over 22 hours flying time) in more ways than one. This truly is an experts conference, by Experts, for Experts. I spoke to people literally from all over the world as far away as Germany and Japan, all looking to get an incredible amount of deep technical information. I can confidently say that the most technical sessions I’m aware of were well over a level 500, and dealt with the innards of the ESE engine. With shouts of “turn of the camera’s” ESE source code was visible in public, being stepped through line by line.
Since I’m Exchange and AD focused, sessions that worked through the benefits of working through RODC’s in DMZ’s, designing Exchange 2010 with site failover in mind and MORE were hugely valuable.
If Active Directory, SharePoint or Exchange are your thing TEC is the right place to go. Most sessions averaged around level 300 or upwards. Most speakers were considered as experts in their field bringing considerable expertise to bear in each session. 3 days of deep dives were enough to exhaust most people, and it was great to be able to mix presentation style sessions, with round tables and ask the experts sessions to break up the conference.
For me it has been an honour and a privilege to speak at the most technical conference of it’s kind where nearly everyone without exception is learning something.
