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MicrosoftPowerpointBlogspotMy blog about Active Directory and everything else. Earlier this year I was speaking at a Microsoft event in the Washington DC area Reston, VA to be exact. During this talk I was talking about Windows Server 2. Active Directory. I always like to have demos during the talks so people can actually see what the features look like. In previous talks I only had a single DC and the demos always work great in that environment. Remove-Background-PowerPoint.png' alt='Microsoft Powerpoint Blogspot' title='Microsoft Powerpoint Blogspot' />This time I decided to go with multiple DCs and two domains to make it more realistic. As anyone that does live demos knows the picture below says it all. We want our demos to be smooth and to have no issues. What Every Presenter Thinks. Ill go over what happened and point out lessons learned good and bad and hopefully this will help others. I do highly recommend going out and speaking and being involved in the community. Im not saying try for the national conferences first but there are usually local events that people can get involved with. Im still at the regional level DC area. My talk started and I was rolling along and had my slides working fine and showed the audience about the changes in the domain controller promotion process and that went well with no hiccups. Then I get to the Recycle Bin feature in 2. Active Directory Administrative Center ADAC. My environment consisted of two 2. DC in the child. I show the slide and then I switch to the demo to show everyone how it works since most have not seen it. The first thing I do is go into ADAC and try to enable the recycle bin. This is where the demo fail club starts. My blog about Active Directory and everything else,Active Directory, AD, Group Policy, GPO, Microsoft AD. This blog page started out as an attempt to organize all of the foldables, templates, and graphic organizers that I have created. When I first started creating them. The Capital Group Limited is a leading provider of human resource services locally and brings to bear on assignments of this nature vast historical experience coupled. PFanswers. info version 2 pf exams exam answers for penn foster www. PF Answers 2. 0 website. To get the answer to any of. Research Resources. A Subject Tracer Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Merry Widow Waltz Mp3 Download. Zillman. 
I received several errors when I tried to enable the AD recycle bin. The Good. The first thing I did was take a second to look at what the errors were telling me. I calmly typed services. Active Directory Web Services were running. The next thing I did was a quick netdom query fsmo. All my FSMOs were on my current DCs. I also verified replication with repadmin. The So So. While this was going on I had a single DCVM that I turned on. It is much harder for things to go wrong in a single DC demo environment. Ive lately been staying away from this as this doesnt simulate any real production environment. I should have turned this machine on the second something went wrong or even better just had this machine on the entire time just in caseThe Bad. After checking the servicesreplication using repadmin I next went into the event logs. As I was typing e. I knew this was a wrong move but kept doing it anyway. The audience is not there for me to go through an entire troubleshooting course. The Internet connection was spotty so what if I would have found something useful in event viewer then what Would I have also sat there and looked it up and found a KB and taken the time to read that. You get the point, I only had limited time and this was going to take way too long. After Action ReportLessons Learned. I ended up going into my single machine and showing them the features and then continued the rest of my presentation. The entire incident took less than 5 minutes but it feels a lot longer when 1. Some things I learned and have used in subsequent talks. Always have a backup presentation on an external drive and even a backup laptop if possible. At a minimum a backup on a USB flash drive because if the laptop dies someone will most likely let you borrow their laptop. If you encounter an error remember that these are mostly IT Pros listening to your IT pro talk so they deal with errors and issues all the time. That is the reason they hire us. Dont expect to fix every issue in a few minutes time is usually not on your side. Always have a backup plan. In my case it was a backup VM. Ive seen some folks just skip the planned demo. Remember that you are not the first one to encounter demo fail Some very high visible examples below. The first is Bill gates at CES 2. Steve Jobs showing off i. Phone 4 features. The point Im making is it doesnt matter who you are if you speak at enough events and give enough demos you will eventually join the Demo Fail Club. Its sort of like a comedian. The fail is usually not as bad as you think and the audience is usually forgiving and wants to see you succeed and they want to learn. Microsoft has since asked me to speak at several events and Ive taken these lessons learned and have yet to encounter another demo fail club. Im in very good company. Gates Jobs are also members of this club. Post. Script. When I got back to my desk I left my VMs on but didnt work on them. That is extremely rude in my opinion. Give the next speaker respect and listen if you are going to sit in the room. During the next break an hour later I logged on and enabled the recycle bin and of course it worked then after I gave it a few minutes.