We had a great time in Las Vegas at Dev Connections 2007. I listened to several WSS and SharePoint Server MVPS and Product team sessions, and grabbed some dinner with the whole crew. Thanks to April and Lawrence for showing us a great time!
I delivered a pre-conference workshop on deployment, including building a server farm live! I was a little nervous going into it, but everything worked out great. We built a 4 server farm including zones, poliices, load balancer, queries, and more. Attendees had some great questions and I am still replying to emails. Don't forget SharePoint Conference 2008 coming up in the spring, I hope to see you there!
p.s. Big thanks to Bill English (MVP) and Bob Fox (MVP) for helping me with the farm and fielding questions!
Ben