From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 3:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: new job
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kern, Tom
Sent: Mon 7/25/2005 3:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: new job
speaking of planning for the future-
I'd like to plan
for the past first.
does anyone know of good examples for documenting
your stuff when leaving a company?
since i'm taking the job, i want to
document all my changes and configs for my soon to be previous employer so
they're not left high and dry.
This includes not only AD/Exchange but
cisco router and switch configs, DR testing, Linux Postfix/BIND
server,etc.
My current(old) company wasn't big on documentation when i
was working for them but i don't want to see them screwed. I want to leave them
something they can work with and that makes sense.
However, no one here
really understands AD,linux,cisco,etc. I'd like it written so even a manager can
read it. Or at least an outside consultant....
i know its a lot to ask
for but do you know any tips for writing such a
doc?
thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Myrick, Todd
(NIH/CC/DNA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Monday, July 25, 2005 7:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject:
RE: [ActiveDir] OT: new job
Since I work for the Government, I am all
about not taking risk with my
employment :)
Since you are going to be
entering into a sticky situation, I would ask
myself the following
questions.
Why does the company want to cut their ties with
outsourcer? Are they
unhappy with the SLA? Is it costing too much? Are
they willing to take on
the additional cost for running their own exchange
correctly (Virus walls,
SAN, Solid Hardware platform, good backup). I
would be concerned if a
company was going to do it on the cheap. What
happens if the outsourcers
sabotage your efforts, will it reflect poorly on
you? What is the job
market like in your area?
Since your long
term employment opportunity is probably going to be based on
your ability to
successfully migrate their infrastructure back to the
company, you might want
to try a couple dry runs in your lab to see if you
can easily do it. If
it was me, I would prefer to start over from scratch,
and just migrate the
accounts and Exchange data into my new infrastructure.
There are some really
good third-party tools to assist you in doing this. I
am not clear if
the environment is on the company's site, or at the
outsourcer's site.
There are a lot of details there that you might want to
look into before
getting involved.
All the things you pointed out are easily
learned. Doing AD today is a lot
easier, then it was back in 2000 when
it came out. RIS, and unattended
installs are really well documented on
the net. So don't sweat that stuff.
For the most part the hard part
(Not really hard, just requires planning.)
is setting up the AD in the first
place, and then getting the exchange
environment configured in a secure
fashion. (Front End/ Backend, virus
gateways, backups,
etc.
/Psycho Babble On
On the psychological
front.
Couple of books I recommend on relationships. (Hey you put
it in the
response so I will just tell you what I know)
If you like
cognitive approaches to solving problems I recommend
Harville
Hendricks. I recommend the workbooks more than the books I
outlined below,
because they tend to ask you lots of questions and explain
the themes in
digestible doses.
If you are in a relationship.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805068953/qid=1122289591/sr=8
-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2228004-9529505?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
If
you are single
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671734202/qid=1122289591/sr=8
-3/ref=pd_bbs_3/104-2228004-9529505?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
If
you like behavioral approaches, then I just recommend Dr. Phil.
Dr. Phil
tends to give formulas and uses a lot of axioms and 10 point
strategies, and
7 point keys. For relationships, Dr. Phil says your
happiness factor is
based on how safe, and alive you feel with your partner
in a
relationship. Simple, but makes sense.
The whole fear thing, well
that is just related to security. It is good to
have some fear, stops
you from trying to be Eval Kanival in Rush Hour, or
installing an untested
Service Pack in production. Too much fear could be
an anxiety
disorder. They have a lot of good drugs for that now a days.
I
recommend a hot tub at the end of the day though. :)
Good luck on
your new opportunity, I say anything that anything that
challenges you to
learn new skills is a good thing. I am learning ESX
server now, so I am
learning how to do several IT operations in UNIX, it is
good for the
soul.
When I teach classes, I always tell my students that their success
in the
course is based on two factors. 1. Their wiliness to do
the activity they
are about to embark on. I usually ask the student to
rate this on a scale
from 1 to 10, (1 low, 10 high... most say 10) 2 their
willingness to accept
change. (Same deal, this one is where the number
fluctuates) The success
factor is the product of the two numbers.
So 10*10 = 100%. I know it is
trite and unscientific, but it does help
you quickly assess things if
applied correctly, and a good thing to use to
develop a strategy. In your
situation, if you find yourself spending 80
hours a week to migrate this
company's data back home, is it worth it?
Cause to me that is one hell of a
change in my life, and I like to do more
things than just work.
/Psycho Babble off
-----Original
Message-----
From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday,
July 23, 2005 2:40 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
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