51 Weeks As An MVP

I’ve been an MVP now for 51 weeks.  I’m up for review and I’ll know if I’m renewed or not next week, probably Wednesday.  I know that it won’t be for Configuration Manager again.  As fate would have it, I haven’t work with ConfigMgr in a while.  That means I’ve nothing to blog about on that scene.  I found myself working with Hyper-V early last Summer and I deployed VMM 2008 the week it was released … from a hotel room in Barcelona at TechEd EMEA.  It consumed a lot of my time.  I learned a lot about those products.  I’ve done my best to share that here on the blog and by speaking at events here in Ireland, UK and the USA.  That’s set to continue this year; we’ll be upgrading to W2008 R2 once VMM 2008 R2 is released.  That’ll give me more things to learn and share.

Being an MVP has been cool.  I’ve access to great sources of information, some of which I can share and some which remain under NDA for some time.  The perks have been cool.  My only regret was being unable to go to the MVP summit.  I’ll see how the budget is for that next year.  And who knows what surprises lie ahead at work for me to learn/blog about!