Today I received a special email from Microsoft with the congratulations for presenting me the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the year 2009.

Dear Jannes Alink,

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. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in System Center Configuration Manager technical communities during the past year.

The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."

This award is part of the MVP program. More information about this program can be found here.

Thanks to everyone who made this happen.