I agree that TEC is a great conference to go to. This will be my third year going. Lots of really smart people to meet and listen to. I saw Brett's presentaion last year at Vegas and thought the same thing as you. I saw Brian Desmonds presentaions last year and thought they were excellent, looing forward to his again this year. I do not do that mush work on Exchange so I have not seen one of MBS presentaion but I met him last year. I have been on this list for several years now but usually do not have time to post, i look forward to seeing some of you there and put a face to the names I see posting all the time.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Free, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: > Mere words can’t describe Brett, seeing him and joe go at it was not to > be missed. His stuff last year on ESE was amazing and even the uber-experts > were shaking their heads so I didn’t feel so bad. Until I saw him last year, > to me, he was just a mythical creature on activdir AKA “Building #7 Garage > Door Operator” who wrote many of the moving parts of AD for like 5+ years > before moving over to ESE. It was storied that they never let him off > campus. When I first heard joe say something like, “I don’t understand a lot > of what he says but I always listen and try to” I was a little skeptical , > but I started trying to follow what he wrote on activdir and made sure to > listen to him last year. Scary smart indeed. Of similar caliber is ~Eric > Fleishman but I thought I heard he moved on to a different world. I have not > had the opportunity to hear Ross Smith, I will have to make a point of that. > > > > Oh and don’t sell yourself short, I would hardly call what I have seen of > your work “filler”. You are too modest J > > > > Here’s part of a funny bit I saved from Brett from a few years ago when > they were talking about theoretical limits of AD/ESE- > > > > “Anyway along time ago we (some AD people) went through all the various > aspects, issues, etc and we came up with "the safe value", that special > value we wanted to claim / support ... and we started saying 1 billion was > the official limit. I updated the wikipedia topic on it awhile back. > > > > The issue joe mentioned with the # of pages in an ESE database being 2^31 > ... I like to state it as: "Jordie (my pseudonym for a paticularly talented > developer) took away the high bit before he moved off the ESE team, and > won't give it back.". <g> That is the funny way to say, paranoia drove one > of us to cap it to explicitly positive page numbers. Given that the file > system is limited to 16 TBs for a single file for some paticular (?default? > 4k? max?) "allocation size", I don't really see this being fixed anytime > soon... > > > > My confidence ranges from 53% to 72% for all the above info ... I don't > give a confidence of more than 80% to anything I didn't personally verify in > code, and never a confidence of over 90% that I didn't personally test that > the code worked like it looked ... that is experience talking. > > Confidences of 53% to 72% probably means talented and smart / non-blowheart > types told me this information. > > > > *Cough* ... for the realists ... > > > > I've heard of two production ADs in excess of 50 M (less than 100 M > though), and have seen 46, 85 and 100 M object test DITs. I've never seen > an AD database in excess of 100 GBs in size. Basically, I'm neither worried > about the # of objects nor the database size of AD databases, as clearly > people haven't even gotten to an order of magnitude of the theoretical > limits, and we've still tested higher than production deployments I've heard > of / seen. 3 - 5 M is common for e-commerce directories. > > > > While thoretically we could give ~2/7ths of the world an account in a > single AD database, that is not practical, limitations on backup/restore > time, SLAs, amount of query load per server, will likely cause one to scale > out and _probably_ partition (via NCs replicated to only some ADAM > > instances) before going to billion area scales. Management of database > size on these scales is non-trivial, and drives the real per server #'s of > objects / database sizes one should support down below 1 billion. > > > > Even e-commece doesn't care about these kind of numbers, because if you > look at the income of the 1 billionth richest person in the world, you'll > probably realize she/he is not worth selling to. Only hippies and the U.N. > care about going above 1 billion accounts.” > > > > > > > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 2:34 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > And…on the AD/Exchange side of the fence, you should DEFINITELY hear Brett > Shirley talk – he is one of the lead developers for ESE (the database > platform on which Exchange and AD are based – he’s scary smart). I’m going > to lock him into a room in LA and MAKE him give me some code this year he > promised me last year. J > > > > For Exchange, you gotta see Ross Smith, IV (one of the absolute best > Exchange people I’ve ever met) and Dmitri Gavrilov (who used to be on the AD > team and is now on the Exchange team and can explain DSAccess/ADProxy so > that it actually makes sense). > > > > (Not to mention me, Ilse, Scott, Nicolas, David, Juergen, etc. etc. – but > compared to the headliners, we are just filler.) > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> > > > > *From:* Free, Bob [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 5:19 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > I would be remiss if I didn’t mention to check out Brian Desmond’s > presentations, I think he has at least 3. He is also totally top-notch. > > > > *From:* Tim Evans [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 10:24 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > And it is because of your comments (and Joe Richards') about TEC that I > decided it give it a try. So, if I don't learn anything there, it must be > your fault :-) > > > > ...Tim > > > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 10:07 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > And I will say that I personally find TEC more valuable than TechEd. > > > > Lots of very smart people willing to sit down with a beer and answer > questions for you. No 100/200 level presentations. 350/400. Great stuff. > > > > I’ve known Bob for probably 10 years now on this mailing list. First met > him physically at TEC (it was DEC – Directory Experts Conference then). > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> > > > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 1:02 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > The Experts Conference. They have AD, IdM, Exchange, and SharePoint tracks. > > > > www.tec2010.com > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> > > > > *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 1:00 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > What is this TEC everyone is speaking about? June always is not a good > time for me for Tech Ed, an April or May conference would be preferrable. > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Tim Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cool! > > I'm looking forward to your workshop and meeting you guys. This will be my > first TEC. I'm doing it this year instead of Tech Ed. > > > > ...Tim > > > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 9:06 AM > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > > *Subject:* RE: Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > /waves back….glad you got approved to go! > > > > I’ve finished my presentation slides and am madly working to get my > pre-conference workshop material done… > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> > > > > *From:* Free, Bob [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 11:59 AM > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > Yes, he has for a number of years. It was really ironic that my manager and > I were chatting about him Wed night as his firm was doing some work with our > infosec team because she knew he and I used to keep in contact, then this > article hit the newsfeeds the next day. Maybe more eerily coincidental J > > > > He and I chatted a little yesterday and I hope to meet up with him when > I’m down there at the end of the month for TEC. > > > > /waves at MBS- See you the 25th > > > > *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 8:27 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Security - Marc Maiffret > > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20002317-245.html > > > > Doesn't Marc post here from time to time? Good interview. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
