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ejward02832

19 posts since
Sep 10, 2007

30. Oct 6, 2008 4:48 PM

in response to: Jason Langdon

Re: Sessions made public

I had read that the slides were going to be available the weekend before Vmworld. That would have been great to figure out what sessions I really should have gone to. There were some where the description didn't really relate to what the session was. Or, I thought it was somethng different anyway.

safir

8 posts since
Dec 12, 2007

31. Oct 7, 2008 4:36 AM

in response to: ejward02832

Re: Sessions made public

Hi,

It takes forever to downoad each presentation individually and i think we don't need audio for most of them.

Would it be possible to create a bundle of all presentations in pdf in a compressed archive ?

Jason Langdon

28 posts since
Sep 24, 2007

32. Oct 7, 2008 4:41 AM

in response to: safir

Re: Sessions made public

HOw are you downloading the .pdf's? It only takes me 1 minute per pdf at the most.

Jason

safir

8 posts since
Dec 12, 2007

33. Oct 7, 2008 4:44 AM

in response to: Jason Langdon

Re: Sessions made public

right click - save as ...

it takes longer for me but even getting them one by one is pretty long ...

ejward02832

19 posts since
Sep 10, 2007

34. Oct 7, 2008 4:53 AM

in response to: Jason Langdon

Re: Sessions made public

I was downloading them with no problem all yesterday morning. In the afternoon, it seemed like the website slowed down to a crawl. it's still that way now.

Eric Sloof

41 posts since
Sep 10, 2007

35. Oct 7, 2008 11:39 AM

in response to: ejward02832

Re: Sessions made public

Hi Tony,

When I go to the video spot my username has disappeared from my submissions, I'm also gone from the top member list. Don't you like the stuff I submitted?

I had to reset my password to activate my account again, but I'm still not linked to all my submission, instead I see a guest account in my place.

My complete history an profile have disappeared.... Is there a possibility to fix this?

Tony Dunn

110 posts since
Sep 10, 2007

36. Oct 7, 2008 7:15 PM

in response to: Eric Siebert

Re: Sessions made public

I have tracked down the PDF slides for PO1323: Best Practices for Virtualizing Active Directory

Sign in and then visit this page to launch the session w/ attached files:
http://www.vmworld.com/static/sessions/2008/PO1323.html

thanks,
~Tony

safir

8 posts since
Dec 12, 2007

37. Oct 8, 2008 4:53 AM

in response to: Tony Dunn

Re: Sessions made public

It took me 2 hours to download 6 sessions.

All this process of selecting them individually is very long.

Is somebody frm VMWar reading this thread ?

Ricky DuPriest

2 posts since
Aug 19, 2008

38. Oct 8, 2008 7:08 PM

in response to: safir

Re: Sessions made public

Are they going to mail out DVD's with all the sessions and ppt's on them for attendee's?

Eric Siebert

19 posts since
Sep 27, 2007

39. Oct 8, 2008 7:36 PM

in response to: Ricky DuPriest

Re: Sessions made public

Nope, it's download only from their website.

David Marshall

6 posts since
May 31, 2008

40. Oct 9, 2008 6:52 AM

in response to: Ricky DuPriest

Re: Sessions made public

I do agree, it would be nice if they provided the sessions and other videos or information from the show on DVD to attendees. It would keep their servers from being bombarded with people trying to download, and make most of the folks a bit happier just having EVERYTHING on one DVD to get at, rather than playing hunt and peck to find everything online.

Eric Siebert

19 posts since
Sep 27, 2007

41. Oct 9, 2008 8:15 AM

in response to: David Marshall

Re: Sessions made public

It would be nice,I had thought about putting them together and selling them last year but they changed their policies and didn't freely release the sessions to the public right after the show like previous years. They seem to be protective of the content especially since most of it is used again for VMworld Europe and doing the DVD thing would make it easier for people to spread the content around to non-attendees. Last year I downloaded all the mp3, pdf and swf files, it took quite a while though. This year I might try to script the download or use an add-in like DownloadThemAll for Firefox instead.

David Marshall

6 posts since
May 31, 2008

42. Oct 9, 2008 11:49 AM

in response to: Eric Siebert

Re: Sessions made public

Hey Eric, too bad they changed the policy. Would have been great! I do like your idea of scripting the download though... excellent thought.

ejward02832

19 posts since
Sep 10, 2007

43. Oct 9, 2008 5:56 PM

in response to: Eric Siebert

Re: Sessions made public

I tried an auto-download program but, it couldn't grab the PDF's for some reason. Anyway, I've got them all downloaded and on an easy to swallow DVD with a web-page front end. It's not pretty but it works. I'm not sure why Vmware couldn't do it. It took me a few hours. For the cost of Vmworld, they could have thrown in a $1.00 DVD. I would have given up a hat, or those pins they were giving out in favor of a DVD.

safir

8 posts since
Dec 12, 2007

44. Oct 10, 2008 4:46 AM

in response to: ejward02832

Re: Sessions made public

Could you please put all the pdf presentations (no audio needed) in one or a small number of zip files

on an ftp share accessible to all the attendees ?

We cannot afford to spend 2 days to downoad the PDFs one by one.

Thanks a lot.

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