…you are probably hanging out on the Hands On Labs too much. Previously I talked about what to expect at Tech.Ed and shed some infoporn on the Office System track. As we approach the pointy end, lets talk about speakers and sessions.

So the first international speaker to mention is Paul Cannon. Paul is one of our highest rated speakers at TechEds, SharePoint Conference and is the best Groove guy in the Asia Pacific, or so he leads me to believe.

So, what do we have lined up Groove-wise at TechEd this year?

Groove: Collaboration Mythbusters (Level 250ish)

“It’s too hard to collaborate across so many firewalls. I can’t have access to what I need unless I VPN in or use terminal services. I can’t collaborate without setting up a server”... Moan, bleat, whine... In this session see these myths well and truly busted, using Groove – the collaboration tool for high performing teams.

We Set up Groove Infrastructure in 75 minutes or you get a prize (Level 300ish)

Groove has a number of options for setting up a managed infrastructure – you will see how to manage Groove Client, Groove Enterprise Services and on-site Groove Server environments. In this session Paul and Alistair will attempt to build an onsite groove infrastructure setup in 75 minutes... And if we fail, YOU WIN.

I wanted to do 20 groove sessions, but I was eventually beaten down to 2 by everybody else. Stay tuned for more sessions.