The Experts Conference has a very deep technical lineup of Exchange sessions planned. The event is April 25-28 in Los Angeles. I will be conference chair again this year.

The agenda includes:

• An opportunity to sound off on what you like and don’t like about Exchange Server, and where you think Microsoft is missing out compared with other messaging platforms like Gmail, Lotus Live, Cisco and others. Your feedback will passed on to Microsoft’s Exchange team after the event.
• Depending on Microsoft development timeframes, we hope to be able to run a session on Exchange 2010 SP1.

Other sessions on the agenda include the following Microsoft speakers:

• Scott Schnoll and Ross Smith IV speaking about the many facets of Exchange 2010
• Konstantin Ryvkin speaking about Microsoft’s internal deployment of Exchange 2010
• Brett Shirley speaking about the internals of the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), B-tree splits, etc.

Unified communications content will include:

• Lee Mackey speaking about his hands-on experiences on many Office Communication Server deployments
• Anthony Vitnell speaking about the challenges of Microsoft/Cisco unified communications coexistence

This will not be a marketing event, but rather a deep technical conference. If you’re planning to attend, send us an email — we’d love to see you there.

David Sengupta. In addition to his role as Ferris analyst, David is Chief Architect for Quest Software, and has been a Microsoft Exchange MVP since 1998.