Update, October 2026 — a time capsule, deliberately left standing.
This is a conference report from November 2013 and there is nothing in it to correct — it describes an event that happened. Two things are worth knowing if you land here from a search:
- E2EVC still exists and is still run as a community conference by Alex Juschin, in changing European cities.
- code4ward is Royal Apps today. The “brand new V3” and the “brand new OS X client” announced on stage here both shipped; Royal TS and Royal TSX have been through many major versions since. The backend service teased in the last bullet became Royal Server.
I write about photography now, not about remote management tooling. This post stays online because people still link to it, not because it is current.
The text from here on is the 2013 original, unchanged.
The last session of the E2EVC 2013 in Rome is over and it was again an awesome conference. Although I was only two times there already, I recognised many of the attendees from Copenhagen previously this year!
Remark: Stefan and I will attend the next E2EVC in Brussels also.
Conference & organisation
It’s remarkable that this conference is completely community-driven — so no speaker is “invited”, the E2EVC lives from all the participants, who are experts in their respective areas and are willing to share their learnings in in-depth sessions. I don’t think there is a conference where so many conference participants also give presentations?
A big praise also goes to Alex Juschin and his team who did exceptional work to make the conference experience very smooth. Especially when it comes to the personal shuttle service — Alex himself transfers participants from and to the airport! Also, Alex made sure we have WIFI even in the shuttle bus — perfect! :)
The hotel (H10 Hotel in Rome) was a good choice too.
Content-wise the highlight for me (as a software developer) was Jeff Wouters’ session about the new Desired State Configuration Deep Dive in PowerShell. This gave me a lot to think about and I even got more pointers from Jeff where I could deepen my understanding.
Networking
Especially at the E2EVC you can expect a great deal of networking and engage in all kinds of technical (or not-so-technical) discussions — great!
Our session “Advanced scenarios with Royal TS”
After having a first presentation at the E2EVC in Copenhagen in May 2013 on Royal TS and its features, Stefan and I got a speaker slot in the E2EVC in Rome as well: this time we focused on more advanced scenarios in Royal TS. And — for the first time ever — we presented the new version of Royal TS and its new features!
Here is what you missed — in a nutshell:
- Advanced features of Royal TS like bulk edit, templates (applied on single and multiple targets), integration of external applications (demonstrated with PowerShell), advanced usage of tasks
- the brand new V3 of Royal TS (a beta version we are planning to go public with soon) and its features
- the brand new OS X client of Royal TS
- a new backend service which we will release also quite soon (think in weeks)
I even cannot provide any slides — we have a 2-page PowerPoint: the first page shows our URL, the second says “DEMO” ;)
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