SharePoint 1, 2, 3! Hands on Labs overflows capacity
The demand for the Hands on Labs was so high that we overran our capacity by more than double! We had enough space for 15 people to have PCs and we managed to squeeze 35 people into the room, not counting the 8 people there as instructors! Dan Attis did a great job with the content and leading people through the installation, setup, and out of the box configuration of SharePoint on a custom built VPC image made entirely out of trial versions. This was all burned to a DVD (thanks to Dan's wife for burning 40 DVDs for us) and handed out as take home material, along with printed step by step instructions.
Four people from Intellinet were on hand to answer questions, but the only real difficulty we had throughout the day was from people mistyping their passwords. This caused services to be installed with invalid credentials. Once we found the answer in the eventlogs, it was simple to fix. Aside from this one issue, all the other questions we had were all about the capabilities of SharePoint itself.
Thanks to everyone who come out and supported us. Big applause to Dan for his work with the labs. Thanks again to Intellinet for hosting the session and providing the lab equipment.
-- Matt Ranlett