Greetings, The second Directory Experts Conference for Active Directory will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona from April 28 through May 1, 2003. Although we have not officially announced the conference (that will happen in a few days), I would like to solicit the experts on the list for presentations on Active Directory projects and issues.
This year's DEC will focus on two topics: security and directory integration, i.e., doing more with AD than just logging in. I'm looking for real-world discussions that have fairly broad appeal to the AD experts community. Problem-and-solution stories are great, as are in-depth discussions of some of the dustier corners of AD that don't get much discussion, e.g. integration with non-Microsoft systems. Topics that I'm *not* interested in include "this is how we designed our directory" (unless it's mind-bogglingly unusual), NT4-to-AD migration stories, and vendor sales pitches, veiled or otherwise. Presentations should run about 45 minutes with 15 minutes of discussion, although we can go longer for meatier topics. I'm also taking suggestions for "birds-of-a-feather" type breakout sessions. The DEC is a technical conference targeted toward directory architects, engineers, and consultants with more than six months of production Active Directory experience under their belts... attendees can generally list the top level command options in NTDSUTIL and diagram the DNS namespace created by a DC from memory :) This means that you can focus on the interesting bits of your topic without having to explain things like what FSMO role owners are and why having more than one of each is a bad thing. So if you think you may have an interesting story to tell, please contact me via email at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. And if you're just interested in attending, watch this space; I'll post the official conference annoucement to the list as soon as its released. Thanks, -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Author of "Active Directory Programming" from MacMillan List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
