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“speaking 2.0” at Microsoft TechEd today
I’m speaking today about “The Evolution of Active Directory Recovery” at TechEd 2012 US (SIA319, 1pm in Hall N310) . The session will also be streamed. I had a great idea, and I’m looking forward to see how it’s working. And I haven’t seen this before...

Posted Thu, Jun 14 2012 17:48 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

Speaking engagements
I’m currently getting ready for some speaking engagements: Tuesday next week (Sept 21st) I’m proud to moderate the Windows Infrastructure Track of the IIR IT-Admin Tech Talk . In this track we are covering not only the operating system related...

Posted Wed, Sep 14 2011 21:31 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

“Active Directory” SPECIAL EDITION of the IT-Administrator published
MVP Florian Frommherz and I wrote a Special Edition of the IT-Administrator: almost 180 pages which provide in-depth information about Active Directory. We are discussing the Evolution of AD, Domain and Forest Strategies, Understanding the Domain/Forest...

Posted Thu, Nov 4 2010 22:24 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 3 comment(s)

Preparing for TechEd Europe
TechEd Europe will be in Berlin next week, and I’m looking forward delivering three sessions there: SIA301-IS - Under the Hood: What Really Happens During Critical Active Directory Operations Wednesday Nov 10, 9:00 – 10:00 AM Thursday Nov...

Posted Thu, Nov 4 2010 17:40 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

My Value of TechEd
The last day of TechEd Europe has started. It’s been great as usual. I was satisfied about my sessions, I’m satisfied about other sessions I’ve seen. However – what’s my value of TechEd? TechEd is inspiring : always when you are put together with a clever...

Posted Fri, Nov 13 2009 12:08 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are finished
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 were RTMd yesterday (June 22nd). Products are finished now, the code won’t be changed and the preparations for making them available via Download as well as producing the DVDs has started. Read the announcements on...

Posted Thu, Jul 23 2009 10:48 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

IT-Administrator in Heidelberg
I'm writing for the German magazine IT-Administrator . Recently they've published an series about Windows Server 2008 and another about Active Directory-Recovery (in Windows Server 2008), and in August they'll publish an article about Hyper...

Posted Wed, Jul 16 2008 18:14 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

Back to live
I haven't blogged in a while. A long while. I've been through major changes in my live. Readjusting. Reloading. Sometimes you need to reevaluate things, in technology and in live. Being stable doesn't equal avoiding changes. I've recently...

Posted Tue, May 13 2008 23:53 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 2 comment(s)

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Impressions of the Directory Experts Conference
Today is day one of the Directory Experts Conference in Chicago. So far the conference has been very good - but that was as expected. I had one session today right before lunch, "A Directory Services Geek's View on Active Directory Recovery in...

Posted Mon, Mar 3 2008 21:50 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

HEROS happen {here}
For the past three days I was at the Microsoft Launch Event Germany , the first and as we were told biggest (by the number of attendees) Launch for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. I did three presentations: Active Directory...

Posted Thu, Feb 21 2008 15:08 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

Congrats Microsoft: Windows Server 2008 is RTM
I cannot state it any better: the best Windows Server release ever has been released to manufacturing - Windows Server 2008 is finished. Windows Server 2008 is very stable and very well-done for production use. As I wrote before we at Computacenter are...

Posted Tue, Feb 5 2008 8:12 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

I'm on the Edge [;)]
Last week I was at TechEd:IT-Forum in Barcelona. I'll follow up with more details later. However the guys from edge.technet.com have done an interview with me, which went online last night. I was speaking about my sessions, AD Restore in Windows Server...

Posted Thu, Nov 22 2007 0:23 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

More speaking engagements
While we are in preperation for TechEd:IT-Forum which will be in Barcelona in November, there are more speaking engagements already scheduled: October 24th and 25th: The IT-Administrator asked me to speak about what's new in DNS and Active Directory...

Posted Sat, Oct 6 2007 23:30 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

DEC-Europe
DEC-Europe is approaching, and since I was communicating heavily the past days about this conference I decided to sum up my favorite reasons why this is the conference to be: It's dedicated to Microsoft Directory Services Attendees and Speakers are...

Posted Fri, Aug 24 2007 23:54 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

VMRCPlus out of the secret storage
Finally VMRCPlus is available to the public. I was bugging MS for years if they can't release it, and finally it's available. VMRCPlus is a frontend for the users of Virtual Server, which provides a full console application instead of having VMRC...

Posted Tue, Jul 3 2007 8:33 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

What's up?
OK - it's been a while since I last posted. Many things were going on. The last post was in the Directory Experts Conference-Timeframe. Wow - a lot was going on. I'll write later some thoughts about DEC, even if others have covered it well (like...

Posted Wed, Jun 6 2007 2:38 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

The baptism of a new Server: Windows Server 2008
Windows Server "Longhorn" finally got his name - as many would be surprise it will be "Windows Server 2008". Microsoft did name his products in the past to the Fiscal Year they released the product - since their "Fiscal New Years...

Posted Wed, May 16 2007 22:07 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

Timetraveling Active Directory
When I posted about the Fine Grained Password Policies (aka Password Settings Objects) in the Active Directory of Windows Server "Longhorn" I've also got permissions to blog about a very exciting new feature in Longhorn - the possibility...

Posted Wed, May 9 2007 20:53 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 7 comment(s)

I'm still alive (3) - and MVP again!
So right after the new year started, I also got a great message: I was again reawarded as MVP for Windows Server - Directory Services. This is the fourth time in a row I got the award, and I'm really proud of it. THANK YOU Microsoft! Currently work got...

Posted Mon, Jan 22 2007 22:48 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

I'm still alive (2)
So after getting back from Barcelona I had a lot of work to make sure I'll be able to take some vacation during X-Mas. Worked like crazy. Also I had to finish an article, which was published in January in the IT-Administrator . I covered Security-Basics...

Posted Mon, Jan 22 2007 22:40 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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