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Hi All, Today I heard that Ruud Baars, who was a great memeber of the DPM community working for Microsoft, lost his battle with lung cancer over the weekend.  I worked with Ruud many times during my many DPM experiences and I can say with certainty that he will be missed. Please read Jason Buffington's full tribute to Ruud here, http://blogs.technet.com/b/jbuff/archive/2011/03/21/rest-in-peace-ruud-baars.aspx. David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb   read more

Due to the volcanic ash in the sky above Europe, I will not be able to attend MMS this year :-( This is very disappointing, especially with all the news on SCCM, DPM2010 and Service Manager that is scheduled. I hope as many people as possible can make it to Las Vegas but I do know of many other Europeans that have had to cancel their MMS trip. For those of you that do get there, have a great time ! If you were planning on attending my session "BB37 Deploying and Managing Data Protection Manager (DPM) in Large Enterprises", unfortunately I wont be there. If my co-speaker... read more

  With the Icelandic volcanic ash in the air, will I make it to Las Vegas for MMS? I'm not scheduled to leave until Monday afternoon so I am hoping it will all blow over by then, but as weekend flights are already being cancelled I'm not very hopeful at the moment. If the flight does go, see you at MMS if you're there !     David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager   ... read more