Our Exchange Admins handle servers in England, Germany, and Singapore from the US. My AD group handles DC's all over the world from the US. We (AD team) don't have the issue with the backups as I NEVER want to restore AD. However we do stuff through Dell DRAC's and we are also trying to get the IBM RSA's to actually work and have loaded the OS on servers through both.
If we need someone to touch the box it is usually at most a simple hit the power button and we will take it from there. There is an implementation team that does the initial spin up of a remote site and the data centers have staff on hand to do implementation. At the very worst if we have a remote site with a DC that is hard down and no remote capability, we can send them a floppy image which fires off the network load process and starts pulling the load across the WAN. It can take a day to build a server that way but for our DC's that isn't an issue. The data center can having something rebuilt in a couple of hours if it needs it and then we get it and do our stuff. I believe the Exchange folks use some solutions that tie into big Backup servers and someone local manages that solution. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:01 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' So Tony you saying I shouldn't post my resume here? Darn.. Deji, I sent you request to some people I know on the West Coast. I will see what it yields. I think it would be awesome to be able to work from South Africa as an Exchange Admin in LA. All the benefits of being an Admin, without the need to do mailbox restores, unless your backup solution was totally online. I wonder how much you could get away with remotely. ARM from Aelita, and CommValts solutions would work well here. Physical hardware problems could be addressed with a service contract with Dell or HPAQ. The newer servers have the capacity to use remote management boards. So changing BIOS settings, and tweeking low level hardware issues, OS configuration, are all addressable remotely. Still needing attention is initial OS Load, Server placement, network wiring, and media management for backup. The damn robotic arm got Jammed again last night on our Exchange Backups. I bet with today's technology you could do quite a lot remotely. You would probably need ways to power cycle hardware remotely, and multiple paths into the network and servers. This would be an interesting exercise. I am sure HPAQ and several vendors are already thinking about this. Toddler -----Original Message----- From: Tony Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] [List Owner]Hope I don't get in trouble for this Deji You're a regular contributor to the list, so I don't have a problem with the post in this case. Generally, I'd prefer it if you could run this sort of post by me before sending. What I do want to avoid is "open house" where every employment agent in the world descends on the list with job offerings. Tony ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:31:09 -0700 I don't know if this is allowed, so apologies to the moderator. I need a mid-level Win2K/Exch2K admin for a vacancy in LA, California. If you know of anyone, please have them contact me offline. Again, my apologies. Sincerely, D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE MCSA MCP+I www.akomolafe.com www.iyaburo.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
