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Getting ready for VMworld 2013 – New features, new links,….

Pablo Roesch posted August 12, 2013

Hands-on Lab friends,, Just wanted to let you know about some really cool new features to help you share your labs with your friends and colleagues. Invite a Friend – This is a great new feature we have been planning on for a while and just got out – The idea here was to help Read more...

HOL Scheduled maintenance this weekend – Sunday 8:00 PM – Midnight EST

Pablo Roesch posted August 9, 2013

Folks In preparation for VMworld we will be switching ProjectNEE to our Las Vegas DataCenter this weekend. We willl need to take our Project Nee portals off line Sunday evening – hoping this does not cause too much grief for yo. Rest assured we have “user admin” and Trevor to ensure things come back online Read more...

August 1st Winners: Defy Convention Photo Contest – Hands on Labs

Pablo Roesch posted August 7, 2013

Folks, These have been extremely fun to be a part of and we have been amazed at the creativity you guys are showing – thanks so much for participating. Our first winner really drove the point that he can and does take the labs anywhere,,, we had to limit the number of photos but we Read more...

VMware Hands-on Labs 2013 – Content Strategy

Andrew Hald posted August 6, 2013

Hands-on Labs Friends, We want to share our content strategy with you because this will help you understand where we are going and what you should expect. Our Mission Statement: Labs for every user in the Universe We have been delivering labs for many years at VMworld and recently shifted the model to online 24x7x365. Read more...

Where to hang out, eat during VMworld 2013 – San Francisco

Pablo Roesch posted August 1, 2013

Folks, I thought it would be good to list some of my favorite places to hang out and eat in San Francisco – we created a similar post last year and wanted to update it for our friends joining us at VMworld 2013. I hope these are helpful – I know its always tough finding Read more...

How to get access to Hands on Labs – New Self Registration Feature…..

Pablo Roesch posted July 24, 2013

Friends, Just wanted to let you know that we enabled the a new feature to allow users to Self Register. This feature is still under testing but we feel it is solid enough to release as experimental. A huge thanks to Mike D and Curtis P for putting this together for us. This will make Read more...

What to expect VMworld 2013 Hands-on Labs

Pablo Roesch posted July 18, 2013

Folks, We are extremely excited about our plans for VMworld Hands on Labs 2013 and wanted to give you a preview of what to expect. This year we will be in the Moscone South Esplanade Ball Room with over 45,000 Square Feet of space dedicated to Hands on Labs. New Content for VMworld 2013 We Read more...

July 1st Winners: Defy Convention Photo Contest Hands on Labs

Pablo Roesch posted July 2, 2013

Folks, You did not make it easy for us to decide on our winners for this months contest – we debated over these for hours…  Thank you for participating – for folks out there we still have the month of July to submit your photos for the August 1st announce date. Please contact us for Read more...

Chance to win VMworld Passes – Show us where you take labs – Defy Convention

Pablo Roesch posted June 21, 2013

              Folks, We are kicking off a really fun contest with the goal to show how easy and fun it is to take labs anywhere and anytime. What do you have to do to win? Simply upload a photo of you and or your team / friends taking labs Read more...

Hands-on Labs: Where are the Installation Labs?

Doug Baer posted June 20, 2013

Our goal is to build labs that are useful to you, our customer. To be honest, our secret evil plan is to get you to buy our products… but don’t tell anyone. Now, it would be really nice if we could put everything you might need into each lab and allow you to do anything Read more...