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TechEd Australia Netbook Deployment [TechEd Australia Netbook Deployment]

Adam Bomb — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:01:00 GMT

There's lots of buzz at TechEd Australia from attendees experiencing Windows 7 on their new netbooks.
What few people see is the amount of effort that went in to getting Windows 7 deployed on 2,500 machines in just a week.
John Pritchard is a client specialist in Australia, and part of the team that made it happen. He took a minute to tell me how it all happens.
There was lots of effort in getting a reference image created with all the appropriate drivers, and preloading the machines with apps like Visual Studio 2010 and the Office 2010 Tech Preview.
You can see more about the process at www.technetbackstage.net

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TechEd Australia Netbook unwrapping [TechEd Australia Netbook unwrapping]

Adam Bomb — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:10:00 GMT

I've mentioned on Edge before about the netbook attendees receives here at TechEd Australia. I managed to grab Alan Burchill and have him take us through the out of box experience that each attendee goes through with their new netbook.
The actual process takes about 10 minutes (the netbook is pre-installed with the Office 2010 technical preview and some other apps), so I took the liberty of chopping it down to just the important parts.
You can follow Alan's further adventures at TechEd and beyond on Twitter. He's @alanburchill.

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Attend TechEd Australia, get a free HP Netbook!

Adam Bomb — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:03:00 GMT

Found out about this via a Jeff Alexander, a colleague in Australia - all paid attendees of TechEd Australia this year will receive an HP Mini 2140 Netbook running Windows 7!

The full details are on the TechEd website, here.

One of the cool things we'll be doing is using our own deployment tools to get the OS installed and configured on the machines, and given the quick turnaround from when Windows 7 releases, the netbooks are being delivered, and when the conference starts, it's going to be a rapid deployment - keep an eye out here to see if the tools are up to the task (I'm betting that yeah, they will be).