Ok let me give you some great free advice right up front. :o) It is almost certain you will NOT be telling us all about it in the next few weeks, at least it is fairly certain that if you do, you may be asking our opinions on some other new job shortly. Financial companies, especially big NY financial companies (yes I have experience with them as well) do not appreciate people sharing info about their configurations and issues.
I recommend a more light footed approach. Ask some generic questions here when you hit issues, try not to share too much info. Try not to share anything on the list that could point to the specific company though almost certainly, someone on the list will recognize the problem or something else about it that tells them which company is involved. I have been fairly lucky in this regard as I haven't been pounded by any companies for divulging info like that but I am very careful about what specifically I do divulge. I am not saying don't ask for help and don't help others. I think companies that aren't willing to share experience suck my ass. They need to do that open sharing so everyone can get better and understand the issues everyone is encountering. Someone who says they are really good and actually maybe are really good but refuse to share their info with others because of some fear of losing their edge or something actually in my opinion suck. If you have a talkative, sharing medium capability person and an amazing capability won't share what he even had for lunch kind of guy I will take the medium person in a heartbeat to work with me. I would much rather have an amazing capability person who likes to share though. I have always been of the type who shares what I know so I can forget about whatever it is and go on and work on something else cool and figure it out. That has worked well for me. Additionally, I have found open sharing on issues is very valuable for dealing with MS. MS seems to like to wait and see how many different people will complain about things and in the meanwhile will tell you that you are the only person who ever mentioned that problem. If you get a bunch of people all together who are all saying, hell yes I had that same issue, you have more leverage to use against MS when they are being chinchy. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 3:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Advice I haven't started there yet. What the head AD guy told me was that they had no DA/EA, Exchange Full Admin access. He was just hired a month ago. Until then, they completely outsourced the whole AD/Exchange infrastructure(whatever that means, exactly.). What he's been doing for a month, I have no idea. All the servers are physically on the company property. When I told him how easy it is to get DA access if you have physical access to a DC, he seemed reluctant to implement any "hack". He did, however take notes when I told him how. Not really sure what that means or how a company can get locked out by an outsourcing firm they hired in the first place. The head AD guy seemed like more of a manager than a lower level engineer person. I guess that's why they wanted to hire me. The shop is mostly unix(solaris). Ironically, none of the tech guys there know Windows except from a help desk client perspective. I really don't know what to expect in a week. I'm sure I'll be telling you guys all about it in a few weeks :) What's doubly amazing is that this is a big NY finanical corp and not some little small bussiness. The nature of my hire was that I'd be working full time for a consulting company they use and I 3 months if they like me, they'll hire me directly, away from the consulting firm. Strange. 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/
