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PSSing around Dallas
Posted: 11:40 pm
January 24th, 2006
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Events, Misc, Vladville

Oh thats a good post title and you know you love it! Last Friday I had a great time touring the Microsoft PSS (CSS for Exchange and SBS, support guys) HQ in Las Colinas, Texas. It was quite an experience for me to actually meet some of these guys that I have an immense amount of respect for. After seeing what they do that respect has almost doubled. Below is the picture with the SBS podcast team of Inside SBS, and I have some inside info: Inside SBS podcast will be back very soon. In this pic, from left to right: Vlad, Damian, Peter, Mark and Justin playing the center. Now this guy, despite having met him for the very first time, is the person that contributed the most to Vladville by writing excellent high level Exchange articles on the Microsoft Exchange EHLO blog. His name is Nino Bilic and he is the Tech Lead for Exchange 12. Dilbert fan too (go figure, they live in Cubeville) but the coolest thing was that we grew up in the same country and speak the same language (actually spoke it in front of Mark). How cool is that? It was awesome meeting these guys. I did not get any Koolaid served, but I did get the free Microsoft coke. Very much like the Redmond campus, except this one has soda machines that drop cans 2 feet so they can eventually explode on the Microsoft Small Business Specialist shirt yours truly was wearing. I saw a lot of cool stuff on how Microsoft support works… most of which I will have to take to my grave. And I saw the test lab. My, oh my, oh my. When they say dog-food, they mean dog-food! P.S. Thanks to Melissa Travers for hooking me up and to Mark Stanfill for giving me an awesome tour of the campus.

11 Comments

Anonymous |

Vlad aka One-Man-Roadshow is now going Interstate? Oh, this is going to be dangerous now.

If you’ve never seen a Vlad ™ presentation you should visit Florida. Come back to Fort Lobstertail again, we miss you.

-SFTN



KrisSwinnen |

You came to Dallas and didn’t visit us? When you’re over next we need to plan something! I want you to speak to us!



Vlad |

Sorry Kris,

It was a business trip and I only got out on Friday. As a matter of fact, those are the only pictures, I didn’t do anything fun. At all.

Would love to talk to y’all. I have a webcam now so I can do VladCasts if neccessary. Kind of like SBS Show, just uglier and with worse voice quality.

I should be back in Dallas very soon, things are really taking off. I will let you know when I’ll be there in a non-working role.

-Vlad



happyfunboy |

wahoo!!!

you said y’all!

printing this page to pdf, before you change it…



Vlad |

It is illegal to say “You” in Texas. It’s kind of like going to New York and not saing “youz”

-Vlad



SamanthaK |

Hey, what about Austin? We’d take some Vlad love over here. Please let us know when you’re in Texas again. If its close enough we will drive, there are people here that would love to see you in person.



happyfunboy |

vlad love!

oh man, the jokes are just writing themselves…



Amy - Harbor Computer Services |

We are to believe that you went to PSS in TX, met the guru’s that contributed the most to your business, spoke in your native tongue, drank the Coke but not the Kool-Aid?



steve willder |

I especially enjoyed the link to PSS. Oh so very true.

How come this wasn’t posted on your “Meet Vlad” list, we would have driven down to Dallas to hang. You could have your own mobile SBSSHOW group!



Vlad |

Dear Amy,

There was no koolade. Belive me, I looked. Not even the knock-offs, or jugs of pre-made koolade. There were other things there that I found interesting but will have to take to the grave.

What I think was probably the best part, second only to meeting the support crews, is seeing what it is they do and how they do it. You can really appreciate why things are the way they are… and the look from outside of the tower is certainly much different than the one inside. Especially on the Exchange side of things, it really puts a lot of things in perspective.

-Vlad



Anonymous |

Ironic, Vlad is in the borg cube and he’s the only one wearing a Microsoft shirt.



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