This was a busy week as far as networking goes -- on Wednesday, there was a meeting of the Central Oregon Information Systems User Group - COISUG for short, and today, the WoTech got together for lunch. I love lunch.
COISUG's meeting was pretty cool - I missed the beginning, but was able to catch most of the action. Chris Avis of Microsoft did a nice long session on Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, and Hyper-V. As these are areas of interest that I don't get much of a chance to dig into, it was great to be able to relax and learn without the "OMG, deadline!" pressure that can sometimes happen. I've done a fair amount of virtualization in the past, using several different technologies to host the virtual machines, and now I'm looking forward to sinking my teeth into Hyper-V. I do think I need a new box for testing, though... Either that or I can build a virtual machine to host W2K8 and run Hyper-V in that virtual machine. That would be so ugly, even though I do have 4GB of RAM in my laptop.
Before we moved to Bend, it had been years since I'd been to a user group, and I'm so happy to be involved in the groups in this area - there is a great breadth of expertise in the area and it's really nice to be able to talk geek with others, especially since I'm not local to 3Sharp's office and don't get the daily dose of geek talk I would, were I there.
It looks like I'll be doing a presentation on Exchange 2007 at an upcoming COISUG meeting - it's been a while since I've given a presentation, and I'm really looking forward to it!