Well my MVP lead is already asking for the year’s accomplishments to determine if I have been helpful enough to receive the MVP designation another year. I have to say this is absolutely the earliest this has happened in the ummmm 6, 7, or 8 years that I have been an MVP. It usually happens in mid September or so, I would kind of expect it to happen at the end of August or beginning of September which puts it close to the one year mark but gives enough time to figure things out but kudos to Ali (the new lead) for jumping out there and trying to dig up what I have thrown down in the last year already.
So thoughts from all of you? Should I be a Microsoft MVP for another year? Now for the tricky part… If the answer is no, what can I do to improve? And Brandon and you other PowerShell Zealots the answer to that is NOT “write a PowerShell Provider for AdFind” nor even “Start doing everything in PowerShell”. 😉
The first few years I really didn’t care if I was an MVP or not. Didn’t much matter to me. But over the years I have built up some fantastic relationships with many folks in Redmond on the product teams where I can give direct feedback and often they approach me up front for feedback which I always enjoy and always try to accommodate. Also the source code access is very cool and is extremely helpful in helping people out when they run into issues. I can’t count the number of times someone has described an issue and given me a DSID that I looked up and quickly determined what the issue was for them without hassle and fuss.
So anyway, I hope to hear in October that I have made it another year as an MVP. We shall see. 🙂
I think this is what we call a no-brainer. Your posts on the activedir list and your blog posts are a tremendous help to the entire AD community. I star a lot of posts in gmail and going through them I’m noticing that the majority are posts either from you or where you are part of the thread.
On top of that your tools are a tremendous benefit to the community. Just this week I used adfind and oldcmp to run a bunch of reports for our IA group (yes we still separate AD and IA); so you are also helping on that front.
I think you should have a lifetime exemption and get the MVP every year at this point. The PGA does a similar thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGA_Tour
“other types of exemptions include lifetime exemptions for players with twenty wins on the tour”
Your thousands of posts would be like the 20 wins.
An early congrats on another MVP title!!
While I think these are excellent ideas… not sure it would do much for your “DS” MVP standings. Perhaps move you to the Powershell MVP group.
“write a PowerShell Provider for AdFind”
“Start doing everything in PowerShell”.
Anyway… to answer your question. I think your feedback and comments on ActiveDir and your continual FREE support for your tools should qualify you.
Absolutely agree with Mike. All your posts have been invaluable in understanding AD better. I would be very surprised and disappointed if you didnt receive the MVP award.
I use activedir to get anecdotal evidence of what others are experiencing with AD. And you and a select few people on Activedir to learn.
There is no doubt you should be a MVP. I subscribe to activedir.org and continually learn new things from you. I have told my wife on a few occasions that I would love to be able to spend a day with you just picking your brain and learning from you.
Thanks for all you do for the AD community.
Is this even a QUESTION?!!
Puhleaze… if not you, whom? If not now, when?
MVP MVP MVP MVP MVP
Oh hellz yes.