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
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MSEtechnology
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil
> Kirkpatrick
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> 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: [email protected]
> 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 M&M
> world-store on the strip and bought a Slot-Machine-Type of
> M&M 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: [email protected]
> 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 and company to go to dinner not
> realizing that they didn't see me sit down next to them and
> were waiting on me to get there. I was up $80 bucks on that
> thing and then gave it all back.
>
>
> joe (The joe of the Dean and joe show, the j in 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: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:07 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related?
>
> Just wrapped up Day 3. 530 people. General consensus is that
> it was the best DEC ever. More to follow when I can type on
> something bigger than a credit card.
>
> -gil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Ayers, Diane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: 3/29/06 1:23 PM
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related?
>
> Maybe we should ask a question on the merits of doubling down
> on an 11 when the dealer has a face card showing... :-)
>
> Diane
>
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> Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:35 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related?
>
>
> Don't worry.... we're still here.. ;-)
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards, Ing. Jorge de
> Almeida Pinto Senior Infrastructure Consultant MVP Windows
> Server - Directory Services
>
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Moon, Brendan
> Sent: Wed 2006-03-29 19:26
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related?
>
>
> Hmm.. everyone must be having fun at DEC... this list has
> been very quiet this week!
>
> - Brendan Moon
>
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