Tom, Make no mistake - you are experiencing many of the same 'fears' that I am. I have a BIG responsibility as I take on assignments here for Microsoft. The first question that I asked myself is "Am I REALLY good enough?"
The first thing that I was told by my boss was "You have some couple hundred to a few thousand folks to call on directly. If that's not good enough - I have a Company of 60,000 that are interested in your success. We aren't going to let you fail." Though that makes me FEEL better, it's still a lot to take in given that I was _THE_ source of knowledge and architecture at my last company. Now, I'm a minnow in a big pond. And, it's really OK. You may not directly have the resources that I have to call on, but WE are still going to be here for you. Good luck - now go get it! :O) Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: new job Thanks for all your replies. This really helps. As I told Al offlist, I'm gonna start asking you guys for relationship advice. Also as Al pointed out,I'm most def a generalist. I'm the only engineer at my current job with 400 users. I do the DNS(Win and BIND) as well as the routers/switches,firewall,AV,DR,wan links,Blackberry server!on top of AD/Exchange. Pretty much everything but help desk. I'm a jack of all trades and master of none. My fear is that I hope I'm up to the AD/Exchange. In my current ebvoirment I never had to worry about unattended installs or RIS or security in a real specific way or object attributes and under the hood replications,etc. While I know a lot of this stuff in theory, thanks to books like Inside AD,2nd ed and Robbie Allen's cookbokks and screwing around at home(and sometimes with the live network:) ) We all know that's a far cry from really knowing it. I just hope I'm up to it. Thanks -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld (www.BlackBerry.net) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
