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"Backup of Windows AD and how to migrate it to Samba" was presented by Björn Jacke and Volker Lendecke on December 7, 2023 in the auditorium of the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The two long-standing members of the Samba team at SerNet and the Samba Core Team contributed the talk to the Adminstammtisch Berlin event series.

The – German only – talk offers the opportunity to benefit from extensive knowledge of migrating and securing Windows Active Directory to Samba: Most Active Directory installations are Windows-based. Samba allows such an AD installation to be backed up using Unix means and the backup then made to run with a Samba DC. This can be useful not only for backups but also for a Windows to Samba migration, which Jacke and Lendecke demonstrated. A recording is available.

They also gave valuable insights into Samba and the SAMBA+ software packages offered by SerNet for various Linux distributions and IBM AIX. The Adminstammtisch Berlin is organized by and for IT professionals who are committed to sharing knowledge and experience and discussing current IT topics.

SerNet Inc. will be participating as a Silver Sponsor at this year's Storage Developer Conference (SDC). The conference is hosted by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) in Fremont, CA on September 18-21.

Our Samba team will be presenting on September 20: 

Topic: Reparse Points Current Status
Speaker: Volker Lendecke, Developer at SerNet/Samba Team
8:30am - 9:20am (PST)

Topic: Samba io_uring Status Update
Speaker: Stefan Metzmacher, Developer at SerNet/Samba-Team
9:30am - 10:20am (PST)

Topic: net use //samba/cloud: Scaling Samba
Speaker: Ralph Böhme, Samba Team Lead at SerNet/Samba Team
10:35am - 11:25am (PST)

In addition to these sessions, we invite all attendees to meet our team, discuss our recent endeavors, and explore potential collaborations. To ensure in-depth discussions and address specific inquiries, we are offering scheduled appointments. Those interested can contact us in advance to secure a meeting slot. Please use the contact form or mail us at sales@remove-this.sernet.com – we look forward to a constructive dialogue and a successful conference.

From 10 - 11 May 2023 the 22nd sambaXP will take place. This time finally back on site at the Hotel Freizeit In in Göttingen, Germany! As every year, the SAMBA team will gather here with its developers, users and providers. The focus will be on the OpenSource Software SAMBA with its current innovations, developments and much more. The organizer SerNet is looking forward to a good exchange!

Call for Paper
The Call for Paper has started. We are looking forward to receiving papers on various topics in SAMBA and the challenges in data management. The program committee, consisting of Jeremy Allison (Google), Stefan Kania (Author), Ralph Boehme (SerNet), will review the papers and provide feedback. Submit your presentation proposal right now at https://www.sambaXP.org!

Workshops on May 9, 2023
Several workshops will again be offered the day before the conference. Topics will be announced shortly.

Tickets will go on sale later this month. For more information, visit https://www.sambaXP.org.

Videos sambaXP 2022
Want to see what talks there were this year? On YouTube you will find a playlist with the presentations of sambaXP 2022.

Although online once again, sambaXP 2022 was a great event for sharing new developments and exploring ideas around Samba, with participants and speakers from all over the world.  Special thanks to this year's sponsors Google, Microsoft and SerNet..

Presentations are all available online in the sambaXP 2022 YouTube playlist.

These talks can be re-watched:

• John Mulligan (Red Hat) The SINK Report – Updates on Samba in Containers & Kubernetes
• Ralph Böhme (SerNet): smbd – quo vadis?
• Stefan Metzmacher (SerNet): Kerberos/Authentication Updates in Samba
• Steve French (Microsoft): Improvements to SMB3.1.1 and Linux – a year in review
• David Mulder (SUSE): Certificate Auto Enrollment in Samba 
• Björn Jacke (SerNet / Samba Team): Installing and Running Samba on AIX
• Andrew Bartlett (Catalyst): The Inside Story on the Dollar Ticket Attack
• Martin Schwenke (DDN): CTDB report 2022
• Volker Lendecke (SerNet): Symlink races for dummies and how to deal with them
• Jeremy Allison (Google): The UNIX Filesystem API is profoundly broken – What to do about it?
• David Goebel (Microsoft): Azure Files - "mount" the Cloud​​​​​​​

Organizer SerNet hopes to host sambaXP again next year on-site in Goettingen, Germany. The entire team is looking forward to a physical community reunion. 

The SDC EMEA 2022 will be hosted as Virtual Conference on June 14, 2022. SerNet is happy to be a Branding Partner and to support the event. Several talks from SerNet colleagues are scheduled as well. Registration to participate in the conference is still open. 

A SMB3 Interoperability Lab will be part of SDC EMEA. Starting on June 14, the IO Lab will go on till June 16. The IO Lab is the (virtual) place to test implementations of SMB3 in a collaborative setting with the goal of providing a forum in which companies can develop interoperable products. New features that have recently been added to the SMB3 protocol will be presented.

The Samba team at SerNet GmbH will reprise talks from the recent sambaXP 2022:

• Ralph Böhme: smbd, what's next? (12:20 p.m. CEST)
• Volker Lendecke: Symlink races for dummies and how to deal with them (12:40 p.m. CEST)
• Stefan Metzmacher: Kerberos/Authentication Updates in Samba (4:10 p.m. CEST)

So, if you missed sambaXP this year, SDC EMEA is a chance to catch up.