We are launching my new book, “How to Be an MVP in Life: Lessons in Living and Leadership from Sports & Tech MVPs” on November 27th. It is available now for Pre-order at Amazon. Featuring an interview with the 2016 World Series MVP, Ben Zobrist, stories about 2-time Pro-Sports MVPs: Steve Nash, Dale Murphy, Steve Young and Sid the Kid Crosby, as well as interviews with 18 Microsoft MVPs. More info
On Monday, Nov 5th, and Tuesday the 6th I will be attending and speaking at the Hybrid Identity Protection (HIP) Conference in NYC. On Monday at 4 PM I will be giving an updated version of Top Lessons Learned from Disasters in Identity Management as well as a sneak peek of my new book, How to be an MVP in Life. I am very excited to attend this conference. Thanks to Darren Mar-Elia and Micky Bresman at Semperis for putting it all together.
Soon I will be adding the 2018-2019 ring onto this trophy. This makes 12 times starting back in 2007. The MVP program means a lot to me. So I have written a book about MVPs in both tech and sports. It will be coming out soon. I could use your help with the title. Thanks, David http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Jet lag and other issues caught up with me the next day (Tuesday) and I didn’t attend any sessions :( One thing I love is that most presentations including keynotes are only 20 min long so even when we get a terrible one – we know it will be over soon. But most of the sessions were good and some were great! My first Wednesday session was listening to Sebastian Goodrick of SUVA and Dr.
I have spent this week in Munich Germany, where it has been mostly cloudy, lots of rain, and a little thunder. I have seen a number of familiar faces to those who attended Directory Experts conference: Pamela Dingle, Alex Simons, Alex Weinert, Jackson Shaw, Jonathan Sander, Kim Cameron, and others. Also a lot of faces familiar to those who have attended Cloud Identity Summits: Andrew Hindle, Colin Wallis, Steve Hutchinson, Eve Maler, and Ian Glazer and fellow Microsoft MVP: Naohiro Fujie.
Working on a customer’s lab and look what I found. They had created (through some other process) two user accounts for the same user, and the samAccountName was nearly identical, just a space, ascii 32, appended to the end of one of the samAccountNames differentiates the two. Apparently, AD allows this. The account with the space was projected into the Metaverse, and then later in the sync the account without the space attempted to join, and it matched.
I will speak at Kuppinger Cole’s European Identity Conference on Top 10 Lessons from Disasters in Identity Management in May in Munich. With great automation capability comes great responsibility! Come discuss and learn vital lessons gleaned from disasters in Identity Management. So if you would like your disaster story to be considered for inclusion let me know. I would love to add to the stories. This will be a fun interactive session.
Last summer I attended and spoke at the Cloud Identity Summit in Chicago. First big news: it was renamed to Identiverse and 2018 will be in Boston. As a consultant I have limited time to attend conferences and speak. So conferences have to be great. I do love this one, but in the interest of time, I will be skipping it this year in favor of speaking at the European Identity Conference in May 2018 in Munich, Germany.
In the original To Farm or Not to Farm post I discussed the pros and cons of setting up FIM on a SharePoint farm or using Stand Alone. Well we now have SharePoint 2016 and it isn’t possible to install Stand Alone, although you can do a single server farm. Also, absolutely everything is virtualized and so we tend to share lots and lots of processing so we can’t really think of a server as having spare cycles, because we share those processors with lots of other VM’s.
So I went to install SQL 2016 on a server (been using it for a while, I get vm’s on CloudShare where SQL is preinstallled, so first time installing it for myself) – no problem. Hey, where is SQL Management Studio (SSMS)? Well it isn’t include in the 2.6 GB SQL Server ISO. You have to download it separately. 800 MB. All I can say is You’re Welcome! I get why they did it – they can update SSMS much more often etc.
