Last night I went out with Tony Davis of Simple Talk and Alan White, a

longtime author for both here and Simple Talk. After satisfying their

need for microbrewery beer, we ended up at a Southern BBQ. They enjoyed

it, despite having to join me in choking down American beers.

We got to talk about a bunch of stuff, mostly non-technical, but it was

interesting to hear their perspectives on the conferences. They

definitely are enjoying the conference and getting some good

development knowledge here at TechEd. There's definitely some, but I

think this is more an infrastructure conference overall. Still it was

interesting to hear them. They still like the PASS conference for DBAs

with lots of networking opportunities and real world presentations.

They did think that Powershell is going to be here a long time and take

off. I think it's pretty cool, but I've seen MS push lots of

technologies, so I'm kind of adopting a wait-and-see attitude about

Powershell. If you get the chance, check it out and see what you think

There were definitely lots of Powershell sessions here covering all

sorts of admin, Windows, SQL , Exchange, etc.