Windows in Higher Education Conference 2007

Date: December 10-12th, 2007 (Sunday the 9th will be an optional evening 'meet and greet' event)
Location: Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington
Cost: No registration fee for schools that can accept the "gift" of the expense, for those who cannot legally accept the "gift" there is a fee of $150 to cover the costs, breakfast and lunch will be provided - attendees are responsible for airfare and hotel
Attendees: Higher education IT staff from anywhere (max of 100 attendees)
Hotel: Hotel information will be provided to attendees
Transportation: Shuttle from hotel to event and back provided each day - attendees are responsible for transportation between airport and hotel

Planned topics from peer presenters (subject to change):

• Vista
• Exchange 2007
• Softgrid
• Sharepoint
• MS MOM
• Clustered file services
• Live Communications Server
  
• REN-ISAC and Microsoft
  
• ADFS and Shibboleth
• Plus birds-of-a-feather discussions
  

Planned topics from Microsoft presenters (subject to change):

• Vista deployment
• Sharepoint
• Softgrid
• AD in Windows Server 2008
• Virtualization
• Windows Server 2008
• MS internal desktop deployment process
  

As with prior events, this is a technical conference with about half of the content provided by Microsoft speakers and half by peer speakers. We focus a lot of attention on content and presenters and strive to bring together excellent content from both Microsoft and peers. A large part of the motivation for holding the event on the Microsoft campus is greater access to high level Microsoft presenters.