The Great Plains session was aimed more at the ISV market than the end users, but I still saw some pretty nifty things. MS is trying to get into the supply chain.

The Deploying Exchange 2003: From Exchange 5.5 session was useful, even if it didn’t really tell me anything I didn’t already know. One interesting thing was a show of hands poll of how many people had deployed an Active Directory vs. how many had not. I’d say that 95% of the audience had, but keep in mind this is in a session thats going to be heavy in NT4 people. Later, he asked how many people still had NT4, greater than half the room raised thier hands.

That almost makes me feel good that we are not alone.

The other good question was “Who has more than 10,000 users in Exchange 5.5?” At least a dozen people. Wow, I can’t imagine managing that many mailboxes.