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TEC’2009 is coming up soon… I’ll be there and I hope you will be too. TEC is a place to get acquainted with some of the top folks in Active DIrectory, ILM/FIM, and Exchange.

Here is what Gil Kirkpatrick, the founder of the conference had to say:

 

I just wanted to remind all the list denizens that I will again be hosting The Experts Conference Europe this September 14-16 in Berlin, Germany.

TEC is comprised to two conferences this year. TEC/Identity and Access features speakers from Microsoft (Alex Weinert, Markus Vilcinskas, and Tomasz Onyszko for ILM/FIM 2010, Dean Wells, Nathan Muggli, and Brett Shirley for DS, and Matt Steele for Geneva), as well as notable MVPs Guido Grillenmeier, Jorge de Almeida-Pinto, and Brian Desmond.

TEC/Exchange includes Ross Smith IV, Greg Taylor, and Brett Shirley from Microsoft, as well as Exchange MVPs Ilse van Criekinge and Michael B. Smith.

You can see the entire TEC agenda at http://www.tec2009.com, and if you have any questions, contact me at gil.kirkpatrick@quest.com.

It would be great to see some of the activedir crowd at TEC this year. If you need to come up with a justification, well, listening to brettsh explain the innards of ESE is worth the price of admission right there.

-gil

 

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TEC’2009 is coming up soon… I’ll be there and I hope you will be too. TEC is a place to get acquainted with some of the top folks in Active DIrectory, ILM/FIM, and Exchange.

Here is what Gil Kirkpatrick, the founder of the conference had to say:

I just wanted to remind all the list denizens that I will again be hosting The Experts Conference Europe this September 14-16 in Berlin, Germany.

TEC is comprised to two conferences this year. TEC/Identity and Access features speakers from Microsoft (Alex Weinert, Markus Vilcinskas, and Tomasz Onyszko for ILM/FIM 2010, Dean Wells, Nathan Muggli, and Brett Shirley for DS, and Matt Steele for Geneva), as well as notable MVPs Guido Grillenmeier, Jorge de Almeida-Pinto, and Brian Desmond.

TEC/Exchange includes Ross Smith IV, Greg Taylor, and Brett Shirley from Microsoft, as well as Exchange MVPs Ilse van Criekinge and Michael B. Smith.

You can see the entire TEC agenda at http://www.tec2009.com, and if you have any questions, contact me atgil.kirkpatrick@quest.com.

It would be great to see some of the activedir crowd at TEC this year. If you need to come up with a justification, well, listening to brettsh explain the innards of ESE is worth the price of admission right there.

-gil

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Follow me on twitter: @EssentialExch

Last week I attended and spoke at “The Experts Conference” (www.tec2009.com) in Las Vegas. I spoke on using VSS with Exchange, and on designing highly available solutions and infrastructure.

This was the eighth year for this conference. In earlier years it was known as DEC (Directory Experts Conference), but over the last several years, as the organizers added more tracks, that has become less and less accurate. So they expanded the name. This year was the first year for an Exchange track.

Note: In prior years, this conference was hosted by NetPro. Last year, Quest acquired NetPro, so this conference is now hosted by Quest.

Can I hear a “wow”?! It was great. You should’ve been there.

TEC is famous for being in-depth. Instead of the 100-200 level presentations you get at most conferences, at TEC you get 300-400 level presentations. In-depth, technical, and very interesting…

Among Exchange MVPs, I and Ilse van Criekinge were speakers, with Lee Mackey also in attendance. But the real stars of the Exchange track were David Espinoza, Brett Shirley and Evan Dodds.

David is the man responsible at Microsoft for getting new releases of Exchange shipped. His title is “Senior Program Manager, Exchange Ship Team”. Among other things, he runs the Exchange TAP. David gave a talk on the software development process for Exchange at Microsoft and answered many questions. He indicated that his talk had never been given outside of Microsoft before and I can believe it – it was very in-depth and instructive as to how “things get done” at Microsoft.

Brett Shirley calls himself “Borg #2 of 6”. He is one of the six programmers of the ESE database engine. The second in seniority, which is where the #2 comes from. 🙂 Brett gave two deep-dive presentations. One was about the development of ESE over the last several years and the second about how ESE works. They were both pretty stellar.

Evan Dodds is “PowerShell Guy” for Exchange at Microsoft. He spoke on a panel.

Now, regardless of the presentations, the major cool factor was being able to hang with these guys and talk with them and discuss items. Hearing the inside story. Finally being able to understand why “this” happened instead of “that”. That is – the truth before it got scrubbed by marketing!

And I did go to two Active Directory presentations. The Microsoft attendance on that side of the fence was just as stellar, with Nathan Muggli, Stuart Kwan, and Mark Wahl from Microsoft present. There were also many well-known Directory Services MVPs. Somewhat surprisingly, Dmitri Gavrilov, who is now on the Exchange Team, presented sessions on the Directory Services track instead of the Exchange Track.

I recommend that you put this very technical conference on your short list in years to come – if you are a technical guy or gal. Much more of a techie conference than a management conference, you get some very guru-like folks here.

Until next time…

As always, if there are items you would like me to talk about, please drop me a line and let me know!

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Follow me on twitter: @EssentialExch

Last week I attended and spoke at “The Experts Conference” (www.tec2009.com) in Las Vegas. I spoke on using VSS with Exchange, and on designing highly available solutions and infrastructure.

This was the eighth year for this conference. In earlier years it was known as DEC (Directory Experts Conference), but over the last several years, as the organizers added more tracks, that has become less and less accurate. So they expanded the name. This year was the first year for an Exchange track.

Note: In prior years, this conference was hosted by NetPro. Last year, Quest acquired NetPro, so this conference is now hosted by Quest.

Can I hear a “wow”?! It was great. You should’ve been there.

TEC is famous for being in-depth. Instead of the 100-200 level presentations you get at most conferences, at TEC you get 300-400 level presentations. In-depth, technical, and very interesting…

Among Exchange MVPs, I and Ilse van Criekinge were speakers, with Lee Mackey also in attendance. But the real stars of the Exchange track were David Espinoza, Brett Shirley and Evan Dodds.

David is the man responsible at Microsoft for getting new releases of Exchange shipped. His title is “Senior Program Manager, Exchange Ship Team”. Among other things, he runs the Exchange TAP. David gave a talk on the software development process for Exchange at Microsoft and answered many questions. He indicated that his talk had never been given outside of Microsoft before and I can believe it – it was very in-depth and instructive as to how “things get done” at Microsoft.

Brett Shirley calls himself “Borg #2 of 6”. He is one of the six programmers of the ESE database engine. The second in seniority, which is where the #2 comes from. 🙂 Brett gave two deep-dive presentations. One was about the development of ESE over the last several years and the second about how ESE works. They were both pretty stellar.

Evan Dodds is “PowerShell Guy” for Exchange at Microsoft. He spoke on a panel.

Now, regardless of the presentations, the major cool factor was being able to hang with these guys and talk with them and discuss items. Hearing the inside story. Finally being able to understand why “this” happened instead of “that”. That is – the truth before it got scrubbed by marketing!

And I did go to two Active Directory presentations. The Microsoft attendance on that side of the fence was just as stellar, with Nathan Muggli, Stuart Kwan, and Mark Wahl from Microsoft present. There were also many well-known Directory Services MVPs. Somewhat surprisingly, Dmitri Gavrilov, who is now on the Exchange Team, presented sessions on the Directory Services track instead of the Exchange Track.

I recommend that you put this very technical conference on your short list in years to come – if you are a technical guy or gal. Much more of a techie conference than a management conference, you get some very guru-like folks here.

Until next time…

As always, if there are items you would like me to talk about, please drop me a line and let me know!

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Follow me on twitter: @EssentialExch

Earlier this year, I wrote about presenting at Connections’08 in this article. That went so well, I’ve also applied (and been accepted) to speak at another conference – The Experts Conference (TEC).

Up through 2008, TEC was known as DEC (the Directory Experts Conference) and it focused exclusively on Active Directory (AD) and Identity Management (IdM). It was definitely the conference to go to for gurus in AD and IdM and it has a huge representation from the Microsoft Directory Services Product Team.

Beginning in 2009, DEC is adding another track on Exchange Server. Originally, there was some discussion about running two separate conferences side-by-side: DEC and GEEC (Great Experts Exchange Conference), but eventually the decision was made to rename the conference and run two tracks: one on Directory Services and one on Exchange Server.

I am privileged to be one of the Exchange Server speakers at the inauguration of TEC. Originally presented by NetPro (for seven years) and now presented by Quest (who purchased NetPro in the second half of 2008), the conference is still being organized and hosted by Gil Kirkpatrick (a long-time Directory Services MVP).

The American presentation of the conference is in Las Vegas, NV; March 22 – 25, 2009. The European presentation of the conference is in Berlin, Germany; September 14 – 16, 2009.

For the American Exchange Server agenda, please click here.

For the bios of all the Exchange Server speakers (including me!), please click here.

For the abstracts of all the Exchange Server sessions, please click here.

It is the goal of TEC’2009 for the Exchange Server presentations to be as high quality and as technical as those they have always had for Directory Services. Thus, if you want in-depth Exchange Server knowledge from some true experts – TEC’2009 is the place to be. In tight economic times, you have to carefully pick and choose which conferences and technical events you want to attend. TEC’2009 should be your #1 choice. As you can see from the American agenda and biographies, there is a very strong representation from the Exchange Server product team as well as from the Directory Services product team.

I hope that you will join me at TEC’2009. It is a worthwhile investment for you and your company.

Until next time…

As always, if there are items you would like me to talk about, please drop me a line and let me know!

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Follow me on twitter: @EssentialExch