I'm spending the next 8 days in at SANSFire 2004 in Monterey, CA. I'm taking Track 5, Securing Windows by Jason Fossen.
So far the first session was introductory. We looked at AD and DNS. It took half a day to get over the 50,000 foot view of AD. Tomorrow we discuss Group Policy Objects, so it should get more detailed.
In the evening there was a session entitled "A conversation with Dorothy Denning." This was an interesting conversation. Dr. Denning discussed some early history of Security, the difficulty of security for end users, and Diversety of systems.