At TechEd in Florida, the Microsoft Regional Directors held a series of groktalks.

Apparently, a groktalk basically just includes the need to know stuff and no superfluous waffle or spin.

They're now posted onto the Groktalks website - two stand out for me:

Scott Hanselman - 10 Utilities in 10 Minutes

Scott has blogged on this subject before but its nice to see him showing off his favourite utilities.

A couple of them were a bit developery for me but one tool really stood out - Cropper.

Imagine my surprise when, coming here to blog about it, I find that its creator also blogs here!

Great work Brian!

Thomas Lee - Windows Installer XML

Thomas has a great session on using Windows Installer XML. I was introduced to this by Neil when i needed to build an MSI file for a project I was working on. Thomas' presentation provides a basic overview of what you can do with WiX and should be enough to get you going.

Check them all out here.