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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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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

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

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

TechEd EU 2006 in Barcelona
So ... TechEd was just great - I can not describe it in other words. As I wrote in a prior post I had some sessions to take care of at TechEd. So after we arrived in Barcelona we first had a dinner with the MCT-Community which we really enjoyed. There...

Posted Mon, Jan 22 2007 1:20 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

Directory Experts Conference and Book success
OK - amazon.de is not having their database under control lately - they are fairly unable to update book descriptions and authors, and the statistics are going up and down. However, we got word from our publisher that the Windows Server 2003 - Die Expertentipps...

Posted Wed, Aug 30 2006 0:10 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

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TechEd EU and what else is keeping me busy
I just recognized - I didn't post anything for a month. This is awful! Currently I'm very busy at my daytime-job (turns out it's not just daytime lately - just to much to work). And currently defines as this year (almost). However - I do a lot of interesting...

Posted Wed, Aug 23 2006 21:50 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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Publications: Article and Book
My next Article was published in the June Edition of the IT-Administrator . In Informationsmekka Internet I explained how to use old and new Internet Technologies such as newsgroups, blogging, tagging, podcasts and seach engines to increase your "Who...

Posted Mon, Jun 19 2006 12:49 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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Finished, Exhausted, Done!
I just finished the finalizing work on my next book, which I wrote with a couple other Windows Server MVPs. We are providing tipps and tricks around Windows Server 2003 (including R2). The book is for MS-Press Germany, and I expect it in the stores pretty...

Posted Tue, May 16 2006 4:16 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 4 comment(s)

Three MOC-Courses for Windows Server 2003 R2 available
I've recently seen that the three MOC-Courses (MOC = Microsoft Official Curriculum) around Windows Server 2003 R2 technologies have been released. I did the technical reviews of those MOC-Courses are I'm pretty happy with their content (OK - if you are...

Posted Tue, May 16 2006 4:04 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

Directory Experts Conference
I just arrived back from the Directory Experts Conference in Las Vegas (last weekend, times have been busy, jetlag has been bad) and it was a blast. The venue hotel - Green Valley Resort and Spa - was very comfortable and nice to support the event. Saturday...

Posted Fri, Apr 7 2006 6:41 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

Three MOC-Courses for Windows Server 2003 R2 available
I've recently seen that the three MOC-Courses (MOC = Microsoft Official Curriculum) around Windows Server 2003 R2 technologies have been released. I did the technical reviews of those MOC-Courses and I'm really satisfied with them. The first one is a...

Posted Fri, Apr 7 2006 5:48 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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