Thursday’s general session was put on by Bob Muglia from Microsoft. He presented the future for the Windows Server Platform over the next three years.
First, coming this year will be a Windows 2003 R2 Release. This update to Windows 2003 will contain a set of new features such as:
Branch Office support (not too clear on this) Replication Will include .Net Framework 2.0 Active Directory will have Federation Services (The ability to handle tokens provided by third party organizations to authenticate users/services from those third parties to your resources) Will have ADAM in the box.
Today was a pretty light day compared to what I have planned to attend tomorrow. I’m already starting to think about cutting a few of the items out of my schedule tomorrow just for sanity sake.
I thought I’d mention a little of what it’s like to be at PDC as an attendee. First off, there is SO much stuff to listen to and take in that it’s literally hard not to look like a deer caught in the headlights.
My last session of the day was the “Rules Driven Workflow in WWF”. The presentation was given by Jurgen Willis.
Check out their website for more information on WWF.
First off he went over some the basics in case people missed the Intro to WWF session. He then got a little more in depth.
Rules revolve around conditions. Conditions are simply providers that return a boolean to indicate if a rule passed or not.