Date: July 10-12, 2006 (Sunday the 9th will be an optional evening 'meet and greet' event)
Location: Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington
Cost: No registration fee, breakfast and lunch will be provided - attendees are responsible for airfare and hotel
Attendees: Higher education IT staff from anywhere (max of 85 attendees)
Hotel: Will be announced
Transportation: Shuttle from hotel to event and back provided each day - attendees are responsible for transportation between airport and hotel

Planned sessions from peer presenters (subject to change):

WindowsLive@edu Pilot� - lessons learned
Enterprise mobility solutions
Self-service AD and Exchange identities
Integrating BizTalk with account management
Proactive performance evaluation using statistical modeling
To cluster or not to cluster - lessons learned
MS Virtual Server Clutser

Desktop deployment and management (panel)
Student Tablet PCs (panel)

Planned sessions from Microsoft presenters (subject to change):

Active Directory Federation Services
Windows Identity Selector and Infocards
Microsoft client protection technologies
Active Directory in Longhorn
Windows Vista deployment tools
Domain isolation
Windows Vista system integrity technologies
Exchange 12
Microsoft System Center "Service Desk"

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.

The event is a relatively small one, historically no more than 75 attendees. This year that number might increase, but only slightly. It is a great opportunity to connect with both peers and Microsoft experts.