Between March and June '06, I had the pleasure to deliver an Infrastructure Architect Forum in many countries across Europe focused on the Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI).

DSI is not particularly well understood either across the industry, or among many Microsoft staff. The objective of the forum was to help customers and staff alike get a feel for DSI; the vision, where we're at in the roadmap and how it will affect products and employed by IT Operations teams.

Each Forum had a keynote presentation from one of the Partners at MWD Advisors, an analyst firm who focus on IT business alignment. MWD are somewhat unique not only because of their focus, but also because they provide their research for free.Their website is a great resource for subjects such Identity Management, Service Orientation and many others.

You can find their presentation, entitled "Rethinking Enterprise and Infrastructure Architecture" here.

The other three sessions were delivered at the Pakistan Developer Conference, detailed below. The only difference between these sessions and the Forum sessions is the PowerPoint template.

If you want to follow up on the Health Model concept or any of the large issues discussed in DSI, see here

Finally, I'd like to thank the many people I met in Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Pakistan for their insightful comments and excellent questions.