The below is also pretty AD focussed. Unless the role is AD administration, I wouldn’t necessarily expect an SE to know the intricacies of the items below. Especially as the environment gets larger, you tend to have more specialised SEs – we have a file/print SE team, a desktop build team, an SCCM SE team etc. Likewise we have SEs who are backup specialists – I’m not expecting them to know much about FSMO roles – especially since most of our backup servers aren’t even Windows machines.
Cheers Ken From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 15 October 2011 4:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How you know some SE's aren't really in the Windows management space +1 on Ken's reply. I think a better judge of an SE would be related to AD or Windows in general. So something like this would be a more telling sign: Group Policy? What's that? PowerShell skills? AdminSDHolder? FSMO roles? InterSite replication? By the way, I've just finished up interviewing quite a few people for our Technical Support II positions (basically a Jr. Systems Engineer) and very few of these people had any clue what these things are. Many of these candidates had 10-15 years of experience. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: 10/14/2011 04:30 PM Subject: RE: How you know some SE's aren't really in the Windows management space ________________________________ Why would a Domain Admin be, necessarily, expected to know about Shavlik? I’ve never seen Shavlik used in an enterprise environment (it’s Tivoli, Altiris and maybe SCCM), so if a DA comes from an enterprise environment Shavlik’s probably only something they might see in passing on a list/community like this one. I’m sure there are plenty of products and vendors that each one of us here have never heard of. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 15 October 2011 1:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How you know some SE's aren't really in the Windows management space “What’s Shavlik? Never heard if it…” And these folks are Domain Admins… David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
