MVP Summit - 2009

Missy Koslosky — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:55:50 GMT

The Microsoft MVP Global Summit takes place next week in Redmond, Washington (although the attendees will stay in Seattle proper and be bussed out to Redmond each day). This is an event I've always looked forward to, but won't be attending this year because I lost my status as an MVP this past October (turns out that you really do need to participate in the community - something I knew, but had let slide some the past few years). I was an MVP for Exchange Server from 1999 until 2008, though, and that's not a bad run.

So my intention is to step back up to the plate in terms of community contributions - which means updating this blog more regularly, answering questions in the Microsoft newsgroups and other venues, and getting back to writing more.

To my MVP friends who will be at the Summit, have a great time, and enjoy your time with the Product Group. The Exchange Product Group is incredibly open and responsive, and I'll miss having face time with them (I was fortunate enough to see many of them at the E14 Airlift a few weeks ago, but more is always better!)

Busy Networking Week!

Missy Koslosky — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:43:00 GMT

This was a busy week as far as networking goes -- on Wednesday, there was a meeting of the Central Oregon Information Systems User Group - COISUG for short, and today, the WoTech got together for lunch. I love lunch.

COISUG's meeting was pretty cool - I missed the beginning, but was able to catch most of the action. Chris Avis of Microsoft did a nice long session on Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, and Hyper-V. As these are areas of interest that I don't get much of a chance to dig into, it was great to be able to relax and learn without the "OMG, deadline!" pressure that can sometimes happen. I've done a fair amount of virtualization in the past, using several different technologies to host the virtual machines, and now I'm looking forward to sinking my teeth into Hyper-V. I do think I need a new box for testing, though... Either that or I can build a virtual machine to host W2K8 and run Hyper-V in that virtual machine. That would be so ugly, even though I do have 4GB of RAM in my laptop.

Before we moved to Bend, it had been years since I'd been to a user group, and I'm so happy to be involved in the groups in this area - there is a great breadth of expertise in the area and it's really nice to be able to talk geek with others, especially since I'm not local to 3Sharp's office and don't get the daily dose of geek talk I would, were I there.

It looks like I'll be doing a presentation on Exchange 2007 at an upcoming COISUG meeting - it's been a while since I've given a presentation, and I'm really looking forward to it!

Community

MVP Summit - 2009

Busy Networking Week!