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: [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 | |________________________________ | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of |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 | |LogicaCMG Nederland B.V. (BU RTINC Eindhoven) |( Tel : +31-(0)40-29.57.777 |( Mobile : +31-(0)6-26.26.62.80 |* E-mail : <see sender address> | |________________________________ | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Moon, Brendan |Sent: Wed 2006-03-29 19:26 |To: [email protected] |Subject: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? 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