Free Training without leaving your desk: Microsoft TechDays 2009

Written on Mar 23 2009 Filed under: Softricity, Microsoft Terminal Services, Microsoft MVP, Virtualization, VDI, Server Virtualization, Microsoft 2,737 views, 1 comment

by Tim Mangan

First of all, this is not an early April Fools joke!

But for 24 hours on April 1st(GMT), Microsoft is hosting a rather large and free event that you can participate in without leaving your desk or home.  The event is primarily aimed at developers, but there are a few other key jems hidden in the sessions.  This is a 24 hour Live Meeting event called TechDays.  Almost 90 in-depth sessions.

Best of all (in my blog, I get to decide what is best.  Get your own blog!) I will be doing a session at 4PM Eastern US Time.  Loosely based on the Briforum 2008 Session I did on "The Data Problem", although this time aimed at the developers.

Back in 2001 at Softricity, Microsoft's Stuart Schaeffer and I discussed how we were building this application virtualization platform (then called SoftGrid, now known as App-V) in part because the developers didn't know how to write applications, and how we should start a campaign to educate the developers.  Uh, we got busy and forgot about all that (Mea culpa).  So finally eight years later I am finally getting around to it. 

Uh, you can get prizes for attending like 50% of a MS Cert exam, and Second Shot on cert exams (and not just developer ones) and MSDN subscriptions.

See http://www.msfttechdays.com/public/home.aspx for more information.

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Tim Mangan wrote re: Free Training without leaving your desk: Microsoft TechDays 2009

on Mon, Apr 6 2009 8:36 AM

Just an update after the event.  Microsoft recorded all of the TechDays presentations.  You can still go to the site and register to view the presentations for free.

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