I'm going to Orlando.

robrohr — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:42:00 GMT

TechEd is in Orlando again this year. I love TechEd, but I hate Disney. Luckily, I think I can avoid Walt's fiendish demesne.

I took a look at the initial session list and I only found one CMS specific listing. I can't say that I'm pleased/surprised. Perhaps the rumors (I guess they're not really circumspect about this, are they?) about CMS getting rolled up into the Sharepoint team will result in CMS sessions appearing as Sharepoint sessions.

It looks like the CMS sessions are going to appear under the Portals track.

Portals
Discover how to leverage Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server to interact effectively with your line-of-business applications like SAP; learn best practices for deploying, managing, aggregating, and searching Windows SharePoint Services sites; find out how Microsoft Content Management Server can fulfill your web content management needs – and how these products, along with other Microsoft Office System products and technologies like Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and Microsoft Office Project Server help you create highly scalable portal and collaboration solutions to meet your business and technical needs. Discover how these technologies integrate with other Microsoft Windows Server System technologies for easy deployment and management. Learn best practices from experts in architecting, deploying, and managing portal and collaboration solutions on the intranet, extranet, and Internet and hear about partner solutions that can further enhance your environment. Developers and IT professionals alike will see how to build custom, robust collaboration solutions and easily manage them.

Luckily, I have tons to learn about VS 2005, Yukon, and Portal technologies to keep me from wasting time in the gaming pit. Whatever happens, I ought to be able to buttonhole the CMS folks in the Cabana.

Where's the CMS?

robrohr — Thu, 27 May 2004 20:18:00 GMT

This year at TechEd, the Content Management Systems team doesn't seem to have the presence that they have had in recent years. Kind of disappointing for a CMS developer like myself.

Here it is, Thursday already, and the only two CMS sessions were a vendor demo of a migration product (cool, but useless to me, and didn't I see that session last year?) and a breakout on the Sharepoint connector (also cool, and useful).

I'm suffering withdrawl here. There doesn't seem to be any CMS presence in the cabanas, and I heard about a CMS BOF after it had already happened. Ah well. The remaining two sessions appear to be in line with my needs. I only wish there were more.

Update: 6/6/2005 I just want to make it clear, this whiney note is from TechEd 2004, when the best session of the week, in my humble opinion, was Patrick Gaul's session on Friday afternoon. I'm at TechEd 2005 in Orlando now, and there are two sessions, Monday and Tuesday by Arpan Shah. The first session was great and had a lot of extremely useful tidbits. Check out Andrew Connell's review of the session.

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I'm going to Orlando.

Where's the CMS?