Mark’s last session and almost the last session of the show, that seems to usually be the case. They keep Mark’s sessions until the end, I guess as a way to get people to hang around.
Process Monitor – File Activity does automatic grouping of reads and writes.
This session used be done by Mark Russinovich in partner with current presenters. I guess he has other sessions to concentrate on. However he is apparently going to be in the audience.
First and only time in Theater Room 411, great room and it is too bad the other rooms aren’t this nice. Only downside is no wi-fi in the room.
Really crowded room, almost full at this point.
70% of crashes due to 3rd party drivers
13% is Microsoft code
11% Unknown
6% Hardware Error
I am not sure what exactly this session is going to be about, but I am hoping it will help me understand the possibilities of RDS more.
Have to get this presenter’s other slide deck, more info on RDS in general.
10 Gb/s x .1% = 10 Mb/s
Lots of Q&A time (30 mins almost), may have been a bit too much but still good.
You know a session is good when one of your other favorite presenters is in the audience. Also odd note that 4 people in the front row are using a MacBook (Pro).
MinWin is built, huge shift in striping out lots of old stuff and dependencies. MinWin is bootable today by itself, ASCII art windows logo on boot.
Managed Service Account is like a System account for services with managed password but has separate security context.
This session will mostly be a live demo of the concepts I have seen in several other sessions I think. The agenda confirms my theory on this session.
Great demo on the entire process for setting up live migration.
First thing I did in this session was turn of my Wi-Fi since Laura will be monitoring and demoing with live traffic.
World’s greatest make-up case full of hardware key loggers and sniffers
Nmap / Zenmap
(Net Witness) Investigator
iPerf
Cain and Abel
inSSIDer
Snort
You can use VLC to play captured and re-assembled video streams from wireshark.
Laura’s Lab Kit v10
Cace (Pilot, AirPcap)
www.netscantools.com/teched2009/ 40% off.
Windows Scaling XP
TCP1323Opts
TCPWindowSize
Crowd not too thrilled about this years TechEd in general. Big crowd in the room.
Some stuff from other sections, but condensed into core goodness.
Dell did 1000 VM in 16-node cluster on one 16.5 TB CSV, wow.
Coalescing of timers allow for longer sleep states of CPUs. Cool feature.
SLAT (MS) = EPT (Intel) = NPT (AMD) = RVI (AMD)
So much good info, now to attempt to retain it.
A little bit too much Powerpoint and not enough demos. Seemed to be mostly overview and intro and not product in action.
Operations Manager can make VMM do lots via management packs for keeping your VM’s and host working as best as possible.
Lots of PowerShell scripting possibilities via VMM and Hyper-V in general. Lots of cmdlets for VM management.
The session was a little dry but so good pointers on what can be done.
Global SACL in Win7 / 2K8R2, allows for broad auditing much more easily.
sc qprivs servicename
sc qsidtype servicename
Jeff Woolsey is doing this presentation and that is the primary reason I am here. I saw him co-present and earlier one and he really knows his stuff and presents it well.
Hyper-V has had zero security patches since release. Total isolation of VM and Parent partition as well in between VM. Some choices made for security are annoying in little ways like no copy and paste via shared memory but done for VERY good reasons. Avoids some of the security flaws that VMWare has allowed.
If you are using W2K8R2 Server Core check out sconfig, allows for much easier initial management and setup of server core.
I was debating between this session and VIR312, it seemed this had more of what I wanted and less of what I didn’t (VMWare).
Don’t put anything other than Hyper-V VHD files on CSV, it is not a tested or supported scenario. CSV will most likely be expanded to support other things like SQL / Exchange / File services in future.
In a cluster one node can send IO to another node if storage connection is lost.
Refresh Failover Cluster Manager if changes are made in Hyper-V manager, or just make the change in FCM.
Current backup solutions such as DPM do not support CSV. They need to be made CSV aware using new APIs.
You can rename the folder portion of VolumeX to something more useful.
Great Wireless in Theater 402 makes me happy.
Really looking forward to this since the previous versions of the tool have saved our school lots of money and me lots of time. I haven’t tried the 2010 version yet but probably will this summer.
WAIK 2.0
WinPE 3.0
DISM
Under Task Sequence –> Install –> Install Operating System to change image without recreating the whole task sequence
Change drivers attempt to inject via selection profiles
Great session and insight into MDT 2010. Can’t wait to get Beta 2 and start trying it out.
This session is mostly to help get me up to speed on SCVMM. I have the luxury of starting with R2 so I get the benefits of the new stuff. I like what I have seen so far. VMM R2 RC is out now on connect apparently. Must go get it.
VMM PRO requires Operations Manager. Have to investigate if we need it and it is worth it.
Networking diagram is awesome.
This session was so jam packed with info I didn’t stop to take notes. If you weren’t there grab at least the slide deck if not the audio replay.
I have running the planning tool already so this session for me is to mostly make sure I didn’t miss anything and to make sure I am using tool correctly.
Whole new MAP toolkit coming in July. Totally changed interface from the one I just downloaded and tried.
MAP can do lots of things, some as simple as just inventorying your network.
This session had lots of notes on new security features of IE8. I didn’t take much notes since no feature really “jumped” out at me. It appears the protected mode problem we have currently still won’t be fixed.
This session will hopefully highlight all the goodies coming “soon” to W2K8R2. It really is a shame I can’t roll with it during summer upgrades. Now I will have to wait until Christmas vacation most likely. Room 153 has same orientation as 150, odd that is.
Really crowded session, quite popular it seems.
WSMan does lots of stuff, I don’t understand most of it and will probably never use it
RSAT tools can remotely utilize Server Manager
The demos in first part of this session were a bit overkill in speed. I think this session should have been split into two rather than squished together.
ADAC is promising but not REALLY cool yet, hopefully it will be expanded.
No coverage in room 150, but there is coverage in room 153. I think 153 is a bonus due to closeness to wireless lounge outside.
Honestly I am attending this session because I couldn’t find another one I liked better. I am interested to see what IE8 has to help in managing it. The layout of room 150 leaves something to be desired. It is very shallow and very wide, basically meaning you can either see a screen or the presenter well but not both.
IE8 supports slipstreaming now to offline OS image and bootable ISO
oscdimg to create new ISO
phishing filter is much more forceful in blocking
Use GP to disable click through to dangerous sites
I found out today that all the Steve Riley sessions at TechEd 2009 had been canceled. I had only signed up for them about two weeks ago in building my schedule online so I was a bit surprise. I later found out the reason that they were canceled. Steve was apparently laid off last week by Microsoft. This is just amazing. Just look at the fact that he does multiple sessions at TechEds all over the world and think about how many customers he reaches in just those venues. He was one of my top two presenters along with Mark Russinovich. I guess I am glad I noticed this instead of showing up to an empty room in the next few days. I feel sorry for the person doing the one session in place of him, most likely a large part of the crowd will get up and walk out when they realize he isn’t there.
Here are my notes from Steve’s sessions at previous TechEds. I will really miss his sessions.
SEC320 - Anatomy of a Network Hack
SEC 301 - The Fortified Data Center In Your Future - Steve Riley
SEC303 - It's 11:00 PM, Do you know where your data is? - Steve Riley
The partner expo reception was good for getting free food and I got to talk to some Dell guys about what we are buying shortly. Otherwise the partner expo just doesn’t have much for our environment. Many of the companies there are selling things to much larger organizations.
It is almost sad watching some of the people at booths, especially the ones where no one wants to talk to them. Then there is the opposite where a booth is giving away some schwag and has a giant line even blocking their neighbor booths. It almost seems counterproductive to have those lines for schwag though, then all you get is schwag hounds who could care less about your company and its products. Several times the people looking for stamps or something were just in the way of people who actually wanted to ask real questions. I am just glad that I am over the whole schwag hound thing.
I doubt I will go back to the partner expo after tonight since I saw nothing else I wanted to further discuss.
UI cannot be locked by single process via GDI for something like pagefault, major change that dates back to Windows 3.0
SuperFetch and Search get out of the way REALLY in Win7 unlike Vista where they would hang around and make the disk churn when machine wasn’t really idle
Don’t turn off SuperFetch let it manage itself
A “good” SSD really helps Win7, question is what is “good”
IE8 requests network link before it even loads so that when it loads the network request has already happened
Concurrent single server connections raised from 2 to 6
Wide variation of Disk I/O based on drive model, can make a huge difference in UI responsiveness
Get WDDM 1.1 Video drivers if at all possible, huge memory savings
Trigger start services, somewhere in between automatic delay and manual.
38 Core OS services trigger start to save boot time
powercfg –energy again, have to try this
Can’t wait to deploy Win 7 wide and reap these performance rewards.
Corey Hynes – Jeff Woolsey
I am hoping to get a lot of this session since I am just starting with Hyper-V and I am want to start with R2 if possible.
It is obvious they are selling Hyper-V against VMWare products. Talking about costs and such. That is more of a marketing message I think than a technical message, hopefully they don’t talk on those points to much.
Live Migration
Cluster Shared Volumes
Processor Compatibility Mode
Hot-Add disks either VHD or pass-through
TCP/IP offload to hardware NIC via direct
Have to look at Application Publishing via TS (or RD) for remote access to applications.
Maintenance Mode to allow shutting down of Physical Host for maintenance
Since this is a 200 session it probably won’t be to deep but that is fine I just want to know what is new and I think this session will do that. We only have a handful of 2008 servers now so I need to get up to speed.
Joey Snow – Technical Evangelist
Short gap in time between 2008 and 2008 R2
TCP Offload support to better utilize dedicated network cards
Live migrate between processor generations, expose newer CPU capabilities via VM reboot
Expanding PowerShell usage scenarios
Server Manager UI can work on remote servers just like the Computer Manager could finally
BPA built in by default not standalone add-in
PowerShell remote, what-if testing
AD Undelete
Managed service accounts that automatically reset password
Active Directory Administration Center – bringing a nicer face to AD
IIS 7.5
IIS totally powershell
powercfg -energy
Great overview session
No coverage in Petree Hall D, however according to the map of the conference this is on purpose. No sure why it is on purpose but oh well.
This year there is only one keynote and thankfully they made it good. There was no silly fluff like Doc Brown and a time machine or a character from 24. Just real info and good demos. They Only had a total of three people talk or do demos. Bill was the main presenter and did the first 45 minutes or so. Then Mark came out and did a bunch of demos and was good as usual, even handling a bit of live demo failure. He showed off some new things in Windows 7. After Mark left Bill came back on for a few minutes and introduced Iain to talk about Windows Server 2008 R2. By the time Iain got started the time for the keynote was already over, but he forged ahead with his material. He also was a very good presenter and poked fun at the usual server demo thing of having a rack of blinking lights. He showed off a bit of virtualization and talked about the plans for R2. A really good Keynote overall, exactly what it needed to be.
I saw the AP’s on the poles that look like outdoor propane heaters. I thought they might be Xirrus and I was able to verify it this morning. It seems so far the coverage is very good with setup they have at the LACC. I would think TechEd would be a good stress test since just about everyone has a laptop and will be fairly demanding network wise. It will be interesting to see how well it holds up through the day and week.
Day 1 actually is a little slow in the morning. The Keynote isn’t until 10 AM so not much happening before then. I got some breakfast which was a usual TechEd setup. The one change I noticed this year was that you have to get your own utensils instead of them being at the table, I assume that saves staffing costs. The only problem was that I couldn’t find a knife, as a result I had to use a coffee stirrer as a knife to spread my peanut butter on the bagel. I had some good fruit and yogurt though.
I think this is the earliest I have been at TechEd. The best flight I could find arrived around 10 AM in LA. It was cheap $280 and non-stop from BWI. One of the downsides was getting up at 4:30 AM EST or 1:30 AM PST, which means I will crash and fall asleep at some point today. As a result I got into to town way to early to check in to hotel. I took super shuttle to LACC instead. I am now hanging out near Starbucks overlooking the Registration / Materials Distribution. Not sure exactly how long I will hang out here, but for a while I suppose. Just listening to podcasts and blogging / twittering.
This is an another update of a post I started now 4 years ago. I thought I would add the more up to date list. In 2009 TechEd is back in LA for the second time.
TechEd '93 - Orlando, FL
TechEd '94 - New Orleans, LA
TechEd '95 - New Orleans, LA
TechEd '96 - Los Angeles, CA
TechEd '97 - Orlando, FL
TechEd '98 - New Orleans, LA
TechEd '99 - Dallas, TX - Went
TechEd '00 - Orlando, FL
TechEd '01 - Atlanta, GA
TechEd '02 - New Orleans, LA - Went
TechEd '03 - Dallas, TX - Went
TechEd '04 - San Diego, CA
TechEd '05 - Orlando, FL - Went
TechEd '06 - Boston, MA
TechEd '07 - Orlando, FL - Went
TechEd '08 - Orlando, FL
TechEd ‘09 – Los Angeles, CA - Going
