Thanks for the compliments!
I
think this was our best Directory Experts Conference to date... the
presentations were generally stronger than the previous DEC, and the logistics
were nearly flawless, thanks to Christine and Stella (still got to get the
wireless thing going in the conference room though). The hotel, food, and the
city were great.
Attendence was about 20% greater than the previous DEC, which has
been the historical growth rate. There was a good mix, about 45% from
Canada, eh?, 40% from the US, and 15% from Europe, and one attendee from
Singapore.
Session evaluations were quite positive, averaging about 4.0 on a
1-5 scale. Overall usefulness of the conference averaged 4.4, and overall
satisfaction with the conference averaged 4.5. These are outstanding
numbers, and are backed up by the universally positive comments I received
from the attendees and speakers during and after the
conferece.
Quest, NetPro, HP, and Microsoft sponsored the
event.
Session titles and presenters (many names
will be familiar to list denizens)
Stuart Kwan, Microsoft - Microsoft Directory Services and
Identity and Access Management Strategy and Roadmap
Robbie Allen, Cisco - LDAP Searching:
from Basics to Profiling
Nelson Ruest, Resolution Enterprises - Redesigning GPO Structure for Improved
Manageability
Gil Kirkpatrick, NetPro - Active Directory
Performance
Guido Grillenmeier, HP C&I - Recovering from
Active Directory Disasters
Rex Bachman, HP Software - Service Management of
Active Directory, Fact or Fiction
Mike McHargue, Internosis - Building an operating a
Secure Active Directory Infrastructure
Alan Isham, Intel - Managing Change in a Fortune 500
Active Directory Forest
Alain Lissoir, HP C&I - Disabling an Active
Directory Schema Extension
John Reijnders, LogicaCMG - To Trust or Not To
Trust
Jeremy Palenchar, Washington Mutual - Active
Directory and Windows Server 2003 in a Customer Facing
Role
Ioan Donea, Infrascope - DSML: XML Functionality for
Your Directory Services
Wook Lee, HP Managed Services - Illegal Immigrants,
No PAS Zones, and Other Hazards on the Road to Windows
2003
Alain Lissor, HP C&I - Leverage Your Windows
Infrastructure Monitoring to the WMI Scripting
Power
Dave Sayers, Mark Cribben, Microsoft MCS -
Restructuring Active Directory in Windows Server
2003
Paul Rich, Microsoft OTG - Microsoft's Directory
Architecture, Principles, and Multi-Forest
Challenges
We also had an informal AD haiku contest, won handily
by Wook. I'll post links to the haiku later.
Example:
Authenitcation.
Sometimes it works
well.
Sometimes it
doesn't.
The next DEC is being scheduled, but will most likely
be in the Washington DC area in April 2004. A call for papers will be
published soon.
I hope you all can
attend!
-g
Gil Kirkpatrick
CTO, NetPro
Second that (or
third that). I could only be there for the first day but that day was Guido
Grillenmeir, Robbie Allen, Nelson Roust (sp?) and of course Gil Kirkpatrick
and Stuart Kwan. It was a great day. Stuart always gives a fantastic
presentation which is not only entertaining but filled with great
information. It is of course great to hear from Microsoft to help understand
their roadmap. Guido's presentation on recovery has great detail and fully
demonstrates the value of understanding the process and being prepared for
unpredictable disaster. Robbie knows LPAD querying incredibly well and does
a fantastic job presenting. It is great to hear from people like Robbie who
use AD to its fullest extent in his current job and produces such great
books to help the industry benefit from his experiences. Nelson's
presentation was great (I missed much of it due to a con call), and Gil of
course always adds a ton of value.
I learned that
Smarties are not what I thought they were (thanks Stuart), and that NetPro
is banning the chicken (I have mixed reactions on this one). NetPro did a
fantastic job hosting this event. My second time attending and I sure I will
have it on my schedule moving forward!
Kevin
Sullivan
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I was there
too! Learned a lot.
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I was there
and must say it was very worthwhile!
Michael Parent MCSE
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ITOS - Systems Enablement
Maritime
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I'm betting Gil
will chime in here shortly (since I believe you're talking about his
company's conference).
http://www.netpro.com
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Hi guys,
Does anyone have info about
the DS conference that was recently held ?
Any comments ???
Yusuf
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