Greetings, list denizens. The next Directory Experts Conference is scheduled for April 22-25 at the Red Rock Resort in Summerlin, NV. DEC is the premier conference focused on Microsoft Identity and Access technologies, including AD, AD/AM, MIIS, ADFS. New this year are sessions on Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM) and Rights Management Server (RMS). DEC 2007 will also include pre-conference workshops for Longhorn AD, MIIS (using the latest Raven bits), ADFS, and possibly InfoCard. You can find out more about DEC at www.dec2007.com.
DEC is fundamentally a community event, which brings me to the reason I'm posting this to the list: We are still in the midst of organizing the conference, and I would like to solicit your input before we nail everything down. I've set up a wiki for the speakers and organizers (for those of you so uncool as to not know what a wiki is, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki). The wiki currently includes pages for all of the sessions, as well as each of the workshops. I would _really_ appreciate it if you could take the time to look over the site and add any questions, comments or suggestions you might have by clicking the Add Comment link at the bottom of each page. I'm particularly interested in your thoughts and desires for the workshops and sessions. I know the speakers would appreciate your input regarding their sessions as well. Even if you don't plan on attending DEC this year, your thoughts and questions are still valuable to me and the speakers. The DEC wiki is at http://dec.editme.com, and is available to the public for reading and commenting. Only the speakers can actually change the pages. If you want to get email notifications of changes to the wiki, click the Register link and provide an email address. You'll then get an email once a day listing the URLs of the changed pages. Here are some pages to start with: Backpacks? Messenger bags? Or something else entirel? Make your suggestions for DEC swag at http://dec.editme.com/DEC2007Events. Would you be interested in a half-day CardSpace workshop? See Pamela Dingle's ideas for the workshop at http://dec.editme.com/Dec2007CardspaceWorkshop and make your comments. Any feedback on the sessions? Go to http://dec.editme.com/DEC2007Sessions. Thanks again for your time and input, and I hope to see you at DEC next year! -gil Gil Kirkpatrick DEC Founder Meet us in Las Vegas April 22-25 for the 6th annual Directory Experts Conference <http://www.dec2007.com> . The information in this email is CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the addressee named above. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately and destroy the communication. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. Any wrongful interception of this message is punishable as a federal crime. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company.
