Once again I have the pleasure to present at the Microsoft’s academic event of the year: Code Camp 2010 (Buenos Aires). This year, also repeating with two more tracks: Hyper-V and interoperability with Linux; and Migrating Windows XP to Windows 7 with MDT 2010.

The event will take place in Universidad de Palermo (Mario Bravo 1050 – Buenos Aires), this Saturday, September 4th; starting at 9AM. The registration link can be found here.

Since the description is in Spanish, let me translate the abstract:

“Hyper-V en Windows Server 2008 R2 e interoperabilidad con Linux” (Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 and interoperability with Linux): Taking a review about using Linux virtual machines in Hyper-V; compiling and installing “Integration Services” for Linux and backing up virtual machines with Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM). I’ll be presenting with Guillermo Sanchez.

“Windows 7 Para Todos” (Windows 7 For Everyone): Migrating Windows XP with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) within easy steps, maintaining all user’s configurations including Internet Explorer favorites.

Review Code Camp’s complete schedule here.

See you then!

As I mentioned to you before, I presented in the Run Reloaded event that took place here in Buenos Aires in last November. I had the pleasure to give two presentations: Geo Clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Group Policies with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

The event gather some great presentations about several of the new technologies introduced by Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010, Sharepoint 2010, etc.

And the public response was also amazing, thousands of people showed up in this two-day event, that also had several simultaneous conferences given in the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE).

Multi Site Clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2

I presented this track with Roberto Dilello and we had the chance to revisited a previous track of mine presented in Code Camp 2009.

This time I had the chance to take a deeper review about the multi site clustering architecture, their benefits, requirements and how to configure them in Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster.

You can download the multi site clustering presentation (Spanish) from here.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Group Policies

Presented with Leandro Amore, making an overview of the changes made since Windows Vista about the Group Policies management.

Taking a closer look to the ADMX migrator, PowerShell, Starter GPOs, Group Policies preferences, etc.

The group policy presentation can be downloaded from here (Spanish as well).

Cheers!

After presenting at the Code Camp this year, I’ve started to prepare my participation in a new and upcoming event: Run Reloaded – November 24 and 25 – Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE).

This event will officially introduce to the community the brand new Microsoft technologies: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010, Sharepoint Server 2010, and may others, including devs technologies.

The event is divided in two days, and each day will have the IT and the developers sessions. Here is the schedule and registration links for the IT sessions (Spanish):

Day 1 Registration

Day 2 Registration

More info about Run Reloaded here. 

About my conferences:

- Multi Site Clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2: Taking a little bit deeper about my previous presentation, checking the benefits of geo clusters and what are the necessary requirements. I’ll be presenting it with Roberto Dilello.

- Group Policies with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: Reviewing the improvements and features that we can adopt using group policies with the just released operating systems: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I’ll be together with Leandro Amore.

See each other then!

Again, another excellent Microsoft event took place last month: Code Camp 2009. And I had the great pleasure to participate with two conferences, Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 Clustering.

Code Camp Buenos Aires series officially began in 2007 and appeared as a great opportunity for students and academic cells interact directly with the community, not only participating in conferences but also preparing small demos and telling their story about their work with Microsoft’s technologies.

I had the chance to participate in all of them, but this year’s Code Camp represented the biggest event of the series, with over 50 conferences regarding IT, developing, gaming, methodologies. Here’s a quick review of my participation:

Hyper-V Para Suegras

Translated in “Hyper-V for Mother-In-Laws” (don’t ask me, ask Alejandro Ponicke, he came up with the title). I presented this one with a good friend of mine, Alberto “Beto” Ortega.

The main idea resided in present an introduction to virtualization and Hyper-V with the main features included in Windows Server 2008 R2. Using also a small review of Hyper-V clustering and Live Migration.

The presentation for Hyper-V (in Spanish) can be download it from here.

Desmitificando Clustering en Windows Server 2008 R2

Translated in “Demystifying Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2”. Here, I had the chance to go a little further about Hyper-V clustering and presented the main idea and benefits of clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2.

We’ve made a small review about the process in Windows Server 2003 and the process using Windows Server 2008 R2, features included like cluster validation, Clustered Shared Volume (CSV), Geo Clusters, clustering myths and best practices. And also we’ve discussed about clustering with SQL Server, using a demo of a SQL Server 2008 R2 (CTP August) cluster.

The presentation for clustering (Spanish also) can be download it from here.

As always, I had a lot of fun and I’m looking forward for the next event: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Official Launch (late November). We’ll see each other then!

Here’s some of the crew involved: Miguel Saez and Alejandro Ponicke

Cheers!

The event was mainly organized by an old Student Partner collegue Fernando Hualpa together with Ángel Arcoraci and Marcelo Quevedo.

On the Microsoft side, I made the trip with Pablo Listingart and the one and only Alejandro Ponicke.

Some of the topics on this one day event were:

• XNA: Little story about gaming and with a short example about XNA.
• Expression Blend: Using Expression suite of Visual Studio.
• Hyper-V: Using Hyper-V together with Physical to Virtual migrations.
• Windows 2008 + IIS 7: Linux interoperability.

Ponicke’s machine with 192 cores and 200gb of memory

Even though  I didn’t have much time to walk around Mendoza, it is a lovely city that I recommend to visit. I really hope I get the chance soon enough to spend some time there.

Cheers!

On this occasion, besides working IIS with PHP, I showed a simple way using a working Linux + Apache server, making this an iSCSI server that can provide storage to remote machines, that they see this remote storage as local attached hard drives. And of course, all the benefits of serving this sites on IIS7 with Failed Request Tracing, Reporting, etc.

NAS solution using iSCSI (graphic from http://www.wikipedia.org/)

Taking a side all the geeky stuff, it was really fun working on this event with Southworks and other friends that also participated as speakers or organizers. The other southies that presented here: Alberto Ortega, Matias Woloski, Johnny Halife, Pablo “Lito” Damiani, Ezequiel Jadib, Martin Salias, Angel “Java” Lopez, Paulo Arancibia, Federico Boerr and, now a former southie, Miguel Saez; also good and old tech partners like Alejandro Ponicke and his crew participated. And talking about my home town, GENTI and .NetSgo (academic cells also) came all the way from Santiago del Estero to participate.

Some of the southworks crew at the event stand

Introducing the company to a few people also

SDE’s cells

With Miguel Saez

And continuing with the academic events, I’ll also visiting Mendoza for another Cells on Camp event on November.

We’ll see each other then!

Cheers!

Presenting at cells on camp

Playing around with applicationhost.config

It is always special to participate on any event, but I have to say that visiting back my home town (I don’t do it all that often) and my University it has another type of feeling. My professional life began with those events and activities: I belong (now as a remote member) to a study group called GENTI (Information Technologies Study Group); we started it at October/November of 2005 with a group of students and professors of the University, together with Alejandro Ponicke (Microsoft’s South Cone IT Evangelist) as a mentor. We began learning everything from scratch, we didn’t have much experience or knowledge but we sure knew what we wanted and we went after it.

GENTI crew back in 2006

On our first public event (May 2006) everything went perfect; the auditorium was too small for all the people that attended (~ 350 on the first conference and with 300 seats available). Alejandro Ponicke supported us with a few conferences; I also participated as a speaker. And I met a great friend of mine: Johnny Halife.

Code Camp 2007: Memories with Johnny Halife

So, whenever these types of academic events appears, no matter what technologies are involved, I think of them as great opportunities for any young students and the whole community behind it. That’s the case for my own University and my town; it always had this lack of technological events, that do not contribute on making their own future professionals to be updated with all the constant technological advances.

Making this small contribution with a conference in Santiago del Estero, makes me real proud of all of the work and ideals we had, and still have, when we started with GENTI. I really hope that those types of events start being traditional and appears really often to all the community.

On the meanwhile, I’ll start preparing my next conference at Code Camp 2008.

We’ll see each other then.

Cheers!