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Your favorite IDA conference is back March 2nd - 5th in the windy city of Chicago, IL.  The line up this year looks very compelling with an excellent focus this year in the ILM track on Window Workflow Foundation, SharePoint integration, and scaling MIIS solutions.  I'm happy to see that I was able to goad/guilt/encourage some new blood into the bullpen:

• Brian Picard will be presenting Testing: Ease Your Production Elevation Woes
• Richard Wakeman will be presenting Partitioning MIIS for Performance and Scalability
• Joe "That Guy" Stepongzi will be presenting Extreme MIIS Group Performance

You'll find some of your old favorites as well:

• Craig Martin will be presenting on one of his favorite topics - ILM Extensibility
• James Booth will be presenting on the bane of MIIS admins everywhere - Dealing with the Dreaded BAIL
• David Lundell will be reprising his dynasty of SQL excellence with Dave Nesbitt on Mining for Roles with ILM + SQL 2005 Analysis Services
• Jeremy Palenchar will be focusing on Enterprise class workflows with WF and ILM "2" in ILMv2 Workflows for the Enterprise

I think I'm going to have to start a "where's Almero" drive next!

I'm very excited to be returning again as a speaker as well!  Jerry Camel and I will be presenting on

Designing an Identity & Access Management Portal

ILM "2" is set to introduce the IdentityManagement WSS portal for self-service management of identity and access control. Learn what you can do in your existing deployments to integrate your existing MIIS 2003/ILM 2007 solution with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or MOSS 2007. Topics will include centralized SRS report integration with SharePoint, adding custom webparts or migrating existing ASP.NET applications into the portal, and leveraging the built-in workflow capability in SharePoint. Code samples and templates to be provided.

I'm also very excited to see some of the ADFS sessions in the Federated Identity Track - man I never get to see any of the Active Directory Track!  

 Check out these titles on Workflow and integration with SharePoint:

Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System by David Mann

Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) by Scot P. Hillier

Fellow MVP Brian Komar's new PKI bible is available for pre-order at Amazon.com:

The has been invaluable to me so I can't wait for the new edition.

The product description includes:

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This in-depth reference teaches you how to design and implement even the most demanding certificate-based security solutions for wireless networking, smart card authentication, VPNs, secure email, Web SSL, EFS, and code-signing applications using Windows Server PKI and certificate services.

A principal PKI consultant to Microsoft, Brian shows you how to incorporate best practices, avoid common design and implementation mistakes, help minimize risk, and optimize security administration.

This definitive reference features a CD loaded with tools, scripts, and a fully searchable eBook.

The book is currently due on February 13th, 2008 but you can .