Viva Exchange: Connections day 3

So wrapped up the last day of Exchange Connections today and having a weird sense of excitement and confusion.

Here is my conundrum: My technical session Q&A was all about business related question. My business session was all about technical questions. In my technical session I had one slide on business considerations that really lit up the crowd, on the business side I had a screenshot that brought up enough questions for me to take it apart in a live demo (over the wire, production server, live change style).

So what did I learn? Among the enterprise crowds many do technical consulting for Exchange, but few do it with SBS. And even though many are… curious… SBS remains an edge case that is not considered seriously.

Now before you put me in the cannon and light the match please understand that this is simply my observation. Yes, I had a good crowd in the hallways at Exchange Connections, bunch of people at the Microsoft TechEd “experts couch” but the interest is few and far in between and (gulp) warrants the type of absence SBS has on the big stage.