Well, it’s the end of day zero, the partner-only day here at the Madrid Project Conference. It’s been an interesting day. I’m not sure what I am allowed to say, but service pack 1 for Office 2007, which covers the desktop products, sharepoint, project server et al is very close to being available now. That was an interesting announcement, as we are looking at installing Project Server in Black Marble. I’d like to wait for SP1 - it makes sense - but because SharePoint will be patched at the same time I need to do some testing of our customisations first.
Meanwhile, outside the conference, we managed to leave the hotel for a few hours this morning before the partner event. The part of Madrid we are in has an incredible amount of building work underway; all all the roads are dual carriageways with big cloverleaf junctions. A fifteen minute taxi ride to the local Shopping Centre would probably have been a ten minute walk, had we realised where the shopping centre was in relation to the hotel. Ah well!
Tomorrow, the conference starts in earnest and I am planning to follow the system administration track, leaving the project management stuff to Paul and Jim. There are some interesting sessions ahead…