RE: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006
Hi Everyone, My girlfriend (Nelleke) and I just returned home after a two week drive throughout the Southwest of the US. It was absolutely a great trip. We drove about about 2300 miles through 5 states (Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and California) from Las Vegas to Zion, Bryce Canyon, Moab, Cortez, Page Williams, Grand Canyon, Barstow, Death Valley and Las Vegas. To be honest I had the most fun on (a part of) route 66 where I got my kicks. I have always wanted to do that! However, the most exciting moment was in Bryce Canyon at the top of a hill with the lookout over the canyon (Inspiration Point in the National Park) where I asked Nelleke to marry me. Well, to be short on that one ;-) we are getting married in 2007!!! (I still need to get used to that idea..) (Nope, it did not happen in Las Vegas as otherwise I needed to explain something to both parents.) ;-)) (I wrote this in the airport lounge and someone is announcing right now that some guy left his false teeth in the restroom and that he needed to pick it up before he departed on his flight. I think the guy making the announcement was really trying not to laugh! ;-))) I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP!) In the next days I hope to post some text and pictures about are trip on my blog (http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/default.aspx) so that everyone interested can read it. About the conference... This conference was awesome!!! I want to thank Gil, Christine and Stella for their work they have put into this conference and making it possible for me being a part of it. I really had a good time! I really enjoyed to: * See everyone again after a year and meet other people (Gil, Guido, Joe, Dean, Paul, Laura, Mark (did not forget your name this time!), Ulf, Darren, Stuart, Brian, Nathan, Wook, etc. (my apologies for those I have not mentioned their names))) * Run through the labs on Saturday during the day and night (Dean: next time less scotch and more cognac! ;-)) ) * Help during the workshop on Sunday (fun to work with Gil, Guido, Paul, Ulf, Laura, Joe, Dean) * Speak on Tuesday * Attend the conference and other sessions, the MVP panel and the MVP summit (at the end I was almost falling a sleep) * Speak with folks about AD, DR, replication DEC 2007 is definetely on my agenda and I do hope to be there again! Gil: Please don't plan DEC2007 during MVP summit 2007... Just after it...;-)) Cheers, jorge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 22:30 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006 Thank you to everyone on the list who came to DEC this year and helped make it a success. I've had nothing but positive comments ranging from really great to un-f***ing-believably great. I've had four different people tell me (including Stuart) that if they can only go to one show a year, DEC would be it. Certainly the Joe Dean Show stands out as a popular (and hillarious, and informing) event, but even more critical to the show's success was having the expertise of people like joe, Dean, Guido, Ulf, Jorge, Laura, Wook, and the other list-denizens wandering the halls and talking to people. There was a _scary_ amount of expertise attending the show, and _that's_ what brings people back. One of the things I do during DEC is wander the halls during the parties and between sessions and listen in on the conversations... I usually don't pick up on anything specific, but I can usually get a sense of the conversation... is it positive/negative, is it energetic, are the people engaged, etc. And this year the halls were positively buzzing, all the way through the final sessions on Wednesday afternoon. It has _never_ been like that before. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank joe, Ulf, Dean, and Laura for helping Guido and me with the pre-conference disaster recovery workshop. They wandered into the room where we were setting up, and stayed with us till well after midnight testing and configuring the lab systems. Hmmm... funny, that's about when the Scotch ran out as well... :) To give you an idea of how cool these guys are, they showed up at the workshop the next morning around 7:30 (after getting very little sleep the night before) and spent the next several hours configuring the IP settings in the 150+ lab VMs because the code I wrote to automate the process crashed and burned. And then they spent the rest of the workshop helping the attendees get connected to the wireless net, helping them do the exercises, answering questions, etc. etc. All voluntary, just to help out. I have to give special thanks to Jorge for running through the pre-conference lab docs until about 3:00 in the morning, just out of the goodness of his heart. Jorge is touring the Southwest US for the next couple of weeks with his girlfriend Nellika (sp?) and I hope he has a great trip
RE: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006
Hi Gil, Thanks to you and your team, especially Stella and Christine, for all the work you did to make this conference as special as it is to all of us. I also want to thank Stuart, AFAIK he was not only sponsoring the event but also enabled a lot of his folks (Nathan, Levon, Brian,..) to attend and spent time with us - there were a lot of great discussions between all of the attendees, speakers, MS, and the conference would not be the same without their support physically being there. Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner MVP-Book Windows XP - Die Expertentipps: http://tinyurl.com/44zcz Weblog: http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner Website: http://www.windowsserverfaq.org Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=35E388DE-4885-4308-B489-F2F1214C811 D |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil |Kirkpatrick |Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:30 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006 | |Thank you to everyone on the list who came to DEC this year |and helped make it a success. I've had nothing but positive |comments ranging from really great to un-f***ing-believably |great. I've had four different people tell me (including |Stuart) that if they can only go to one show a year, DEC would be it. | |Certainly the Joe Dean Show stands out as a popular (and |hillarious, and informing) event, but even more critical to |the show's success was having the expertise of people like |joe, Dean, Guido, Ulf, Jorge, Laura, Wook, and the other |list-denizens wandering the halls and talking to people. There |was a _scary_ amount of expertise attending the show, and |_that's_ what brings people back. | |One of the things I do during DEC is wander the halls during |the parties and between sessions and listen in on the |conversations... I usually don't pick up on anything specific, |but I can usually get a sense of the conversation... is it |positive/negative, is it energetic, are the people engaged, |etc. And this year the halls were positively buzzing, all the |way through the final sessions on Wednesday afternoon. It has |_never_ been like that before. | |I'd like to take this opportunity to thank joe, Ulf, Dean, and |Laura for helping Guido and me with the pre-conference |disaster recovery workshop. They wandered into the room where |we were setting up, and stayed with us till well after |midnight testing and configuring the lab systems. Hmmm... |funny, that's about when the Scotch ran out as well... :) To |give you an idea of how cool these guys are, they showed up at |the workshop the next morning around 7:30 (after getting very |little sleep the night before) and spent the next several |hours configuring the IP settings in the 150+ lab VMs because |the code I wrote to automate the process crashed and burned. |And then they spent the rest of the workshop helping the |attendees get connected to the wireless net, helping them do |the exercises, answering questions, etc. etc. All voluntary, |just to help out. | |I have to give special thanks to Jorge for running through the |pre-conference lab docs until about 3:00 in the morning, just |out of the goodness of his heart. Jorge is touring the |Southwest US for the next couple of weeks with his girlfriend |Nellika (sp?) and I hope he has a great trip. | |And double-special-thanks to Guido for partnering with me to |produce the whole pre-conference workshop. Guido spent more |nights and weekends than either of us want to remember to put |the workshop together, and I certainly could not have done it |without him. As big a PITA as it was, working with Guido made |it a lot of fun except for the part when the VMs started |to blue-screen an hour before the workshop was supposed to |start. That part truly sucked. :) | |Thanks again to all of you who came, and I hope those who |couldn't make this year can make it next year. | |-gil | |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of |Grillenmeier, Guido |Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:37 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related? | | $20 of it was spent showing Guido how US slot machines |worked in the Belagio. | |and that was so complicated to learn :-) Obviously I lost all |of what I've put into the machines as well (hadn't expected |anything else) - a whopping $12! But now I can gamble all I |want since on the last day I went to the MM world-store on |the strip and bought a Slot-Machine-Type of MM dispenser for |my kids - it's way cool and I'm sure I'll use it more often |than they will ;-)) | | |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe |Sent: Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 19:00 |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related? | |Would be interested in hearing the survery
[ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006
Thank you to everyone on the list who came to DEC this year and helped make it a success. I've had nothing but positive comments ranging from really great to un-f***ing-believably great. I've had four different people tell me (including Stuart) that if they can only go to one show a year, DEC would be it. Certainly the Joe Dean Show stands out as a popular (and hillarious, and informing) event, but even more critical to the show's success was having the expertise of people like joe, Dean, Guido, Ulf, Jorge, Laura, Wook, and the other list-denizens wandering the halls and talking to people. There was a _scary_ amount of expertise attending the show, and _that's_ what brings people back. One of the things I do during DEC is wander the halls during the parties and between sessions and listen in on the conversations... I usually don't pick up on anything specific, but I can usually get a sense of the conversation... is it positive/negative, is it energetic, are the people engaged, etc. And this year the halls were positively buzzing, all the way through the final sessions on Wednesday afternoon. It has _never_ been like that before. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank joe, Ulf, Dean, and Laura for helping Guido and me with the pre-conference disaster recovery workshop. They wandered into the room where we were setting up, and stayed with us till well after midnight testing and configuring the lab systems. Hmmm... funny, that's about when the Scotch ran out as well... :) To give you an idea of how cool these guys are, they showed up at the workshop the next morning around 7:30 (after getting very little sleep the night before) and spent the next several hours configuring the IP settings in the 150+ lab VMs because the code I wrote to automate the process crashed and burned. And then they spent the rest of the workshop helping the attendees get connected to the wireless net, helping them do the exercises, answering questions, etc. etc. All voluntary, just to help out. I have to give special thanks to Jorge for running through the pre-conference lab docs until about 3:00 in the morning, just out of the goodness of his heart. Jorge is touring the Southwest US for the next couple of weeks with his girlfriend Nellika (sp?) and I hope he has a great trip. And double-special-thanks to Guido for partnering with me to produce the whole pre-conference workshop. Guido spent more nights and weekends than either of us want to remember to put the workshop together, and I certainly could not have done it without him. As big a PITA as it was, working with Guido made it a lot of fun except for the part when the VMs started to blue-screen an hour before the workshop was supposed to start. That part truly sucked. :) Thanks again to all of you who came, and I hope those who couldn't make this year can make it next year. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related? $20 of it was spent showing Guido how US slot machines worked in the Belagio. and that was so complicated to learn :-) Obviously I lost all of what I've put into the machines as well (hadn't expected anything else) - a whopping $12! But now I can gamble all I want since on the last day I went to the MM world-store on the strip and bought a Slot-Machine-Type of MM dispenser for my kids - it's way cool and I'm sure I'll use it more often than they will ;-)) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 19:00 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related? Would be interested in hearing the survery results. Oh that reminds me, I forgot to hand mine in. :o) I had to fly out Wed evening and was running around like my shorts were on fire trying to take care of some stuff that was absolutely mandatory prior to trying to get through security at McCarran. I would say that venue would be suitable for next year unless Sydney was an option... You could rent a jumbo jet and fly everyone going to the presession down in it and actually have the presession on the flight, that would certainly make it seem like the flight went faster. My return ticket though would have to be valid for a month as I know a lot of folks down there and would need to go say hi and collect on some beers I am owed. Odd thing is I spent no more than $60 on gambling. $20 of it was spent showing Guido how US slot machines worked in the Belagio. $20 was spent when I was passing a $1 Wheel of Fortune progressive slot on the way to the rest room because it called out to me and said it would make me financially independent for the rest of my natural born life (it lied), and finally $20 was spent while I sat at a bar playing Jacks or Better waiting on Dean
RE: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006
I also want to thank Gil and Christine and Stella and all the rest of the folks at NetPro for another great DEC conference, even Kevin Hickey who seems to enjoy putting me on the spot every year. I like to extend my own special appreciation to Pamela Dingle who so brave-heartedly stepped up to take on the terrors of interpretive Terpsichore for the sake of AD erudition as well as to Stuart Kwan who in addition to being my Nemesis is also my Muse and a tremendous good sport when it comes to participating in the fruits of his now notorious Annual DEC challenge. I also wanted to thank all those who helped generate ideas for the Origami FSMO models. Your assistance was much appreciated. BTW, Stuart and I are in the midst of formalizing the conference challenge-response protocol so expect to see a draft experimental copy out for comment in the coming weeks. :) Wook P.S. Some senryuu doggerel for the day: Great minds think alike But this is more to the point. Great friends play alike. And some not-so-senryuu: The warm spring sun sets Leaving memories that shine Softly in the sky. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Wells Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:10 PM To: Send - AD mailing list Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006 I'd also like to offer a heartfelt thank you to Gil for the whole event in general and to everyone that came to see Joe and I after our session(s) to relay their appreciation, it was so nice of you all ... and it did wonders for our respective egos :) For my part, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the entire event ... it was well organized, a fantastic venue, phenomenal people and a resulting dynamic second to none ... well done to everyone involved! I so enjoyed putting faces to names and hope to see both the old and the more recently familiar ones next time around. Kindest regards. Dean -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006 Thank you to everyone on the list who came to DEC this year and helped make it a success. I've had nothing but positive comments ranging from really great to un-f***ing-believably great. I've had four different people tell me (including Stuart) that if they can only go to one show a year, DEC would be it. Certainly the Joe Dean Show stands out as a popular (and hillarious, and informing) event, but even more critical to the show's success was having the expertise of people like joe, Dean, Guido, Ulf, Jorge, Laura, Wook, and the other list-denizens wandering the halls and talking to people. There was a _scary_ amount of expertise attending the show, and _that's_ what brings people back. One of the things I do during DEC is wander the halls during the parties and between sessions and listen in on the conversations... I usually don't pick up on anything specific, but I can usually get a sense of the conversation... is it positive/negative, is it energetic, are the people engaged, etc. And this year the halls were positively buzzing, all the way through the final sessions on Wednesday afternoon. It has _never_ been like that before. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank joe, Ulf, Dean, and Laura for helping Guido and me with the pre-conference disaster recovery workshop. They wandered into the room where we were setting up, and stayed with us till well after midnight testing and configuring the lab systems. Hmmm... funny, that's about when the Scotch ran out as well... :) To give you an idea of how cool these guys are, they showed up at the workshop the next morning around 7:30 (after getting very little sleep the night before) and spent the next several hours configuring the IP settings in the 150+ lab VMs because the code I wrote to automate the process crashed and burned. And then they spent the rest of the workshop helping the attendees get connected to the wireless net, helping them do the exercises, answering questions, etc. etc. All voluntary, just to help out. I have to give special thanks to Jorge for running through the pre-conference lab docs until about 3:00 in the morning, just out of the goodness of his heart. Jorge is touring the Southwest US for the next couple of weeks with his girlfriend Nellika (sp?) and I hope he has a great trip. And double-special-thanks to Guido for partnering with me to produce the whole pre-conference workshop. Guido spent more nights and weekends than either of us want to remember to put the workshop together, and I certainly could not have done it without him. As big a PITA as it was, working with Guido made it a lot of fun
RE: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006
We enjoyed it Gil, thanks for bringing us. I agree that there was a lot of buzz and it ran right through the end instead of people trying to escape as you see with many conferences. I kept hearing over and over that that was the best DEC to date. I think in addition to all of the folks you mention below are the constantly returning attendees who in many ways are contributing just like the presenters and MVPs. It certainly adds to the feeling of a nice friendly user group, people are talking to each other and recognizing each other from previous DECs and having a generally great time. I personally knew it was DEC when I saw Hunter and Stuart as they are seemingly permanent attendees. If I attended a DEC and they weren't there I would feel lost. :o) Also of course it is great to see the Microsoft folks there. At this point, they practically seem like family members to many of us, hey look it is cousin Brian or cousin Nathan or uncle Stuart I think that is great for the sense of community. My biggest regret for the show itself was not having enough time to actually touch base with all of the folks I had met at the previous DECs and the new folks whose names I knew but hadn't seen a face. Hopefully I can pull it off next year. Until then, good luck to all of the DEC friends including both the year after year returnees and the newbies. Oh yeah, as the others mentioned, Christine and Stella were lovely as always. They always amaze me with how they recognize everyone and recall their names even when they are extremely busy, I purposely don't wear my name tag when going up to them just to test them and they always pass. I thought I had tripped Christine up at first when I walked into the preconference session and she started to kick me out saying it wasn't ready yet and then she recovered and was like, oh its you, come on in. Again, quite impressive. :) To make sure this has something to do with the list... Tony, I refused to order wine since you weren't there to pick it out. Better luck next year. :o) joe (I put the j into www.jadonex.com) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006 Thank you to everyone on the list who came to DEC this year and helped make it a success. I've had nothing but positive comments ranging from really great to un-f***ing-believably great. I've had four different people tell me (including Stuart) that if they can only go to one show a year, DEC would be it. Certainly the Joe Dean Show stands out as a popular (and hillarious, and informing) event, but even more critical to the show's success was having the expertise of people like joe, Dean, Guido, Ulf, Jorge, Laura, Wook, and the other list-denizens wandering the halls and talking to people. There was a _scary_ amount of expertise attending the show, and _that's_ what brings people back. One of the things I do during DEC is wander the halls during the parties and between sessions and listen in on the conversations... I usually don't pick up on anything specific, but I can usually get a sense of the conversation... is it positive/negative, is it energetic, are the people engaged, etc. And this year the halls were positively buzzing, all the way through the final sessions on Wednesday afternoon. It has _never_ been like that before. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank joe, Ulf, Dean, and Laura for helping Guido and me with the pre-conference disaster recovery workshop. They wandered into the room where we were setting up, and stayed with us till well after midnight testing and configuring the lab systems. Hmmm... funny, that's about when the Scotch ran out as well... :) To give you an idea of how cool these guys are, they showed up at the workshop the next morning around 7:30 (after getting very little sleep the night before) and spent the next several hours configuring the IP settings in the 150+ lab VMs because the code I wrote to automate the process crashed and burned. And then they spent the rest of the workshop helping the attendees get connected to the wireless net, helping them do the exercises, answering questions, etc. etc. All voluntary, just to help out. I have to give special thanks to Jorge for running through the pre-conference lab docs until about 3:00 in the morning, just out of the goodness of his heart. Jorge is touring the Southwest US for the next couple of weeks with his girlfriend Nellika (sp?) and I hope he has a great trip. And double-special-thanks to Guido for partnering with me to produce the whole pre-conference workshop. Guido spent more nights and weekends than either of us want to remember to put the workshop together, and I certainly could not have done it without him. As big a PITA as it was, working
