My email check on Jan 1st 2009 resulted in quite a surprise, with an email confirming that I am now an ... MVP!

Dear Rob Marshall,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

So I'm an MVP in Configuration Manager. Awesome!

This award means a lot to me. Thank you very much Microsoft. And thanks to all those involved in getting me noticed, and to those that generally kept my spirits up, and helped me over 2008 both technically and personally. I've had some amazing fun times with SMS and ConfigMgr in the 5 or so years I've been full on with the products, and hope to do so for many a year to come!

My first action as an MVP is to give you all a day off! How incredibly nice is that of me?!?!

Here's my MVP Profile, along with the directory of all 37 (to date) Configuration Manager MVP's around the Globe

Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/r0b/archive/2009/01/02/rob-is-now-a-configuration-manager-mvp.aspx