I also do telephone, desktop, DR, network, electricity, remote access, email (but not the server side), firewall and in my free time I get to assist in managing the property. If my boss has his way and if we get some funding that he has applied for I get to set up a low background radiation laboratory and go back to commenting on incoming research papers. Man am I glad retirement is coming up soon. I kind of wish with the budget cut backs coming next year they try and buy me out of my last couple of years. Oh, and I still have some additional boxes but one is for an external web site they put off finishing and one additional that has failed once this year, due to age, that is running a dedicated virtualized library software. I also have one DC that failed to boot last month that I had to go over to and baby it into starting up. Most of my servers are virtualized and ESX as out of the question, it cost too much.
Jon On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice one of the reasons my bosses have not thrown me out is Server 2008 > and HyperV. I get (maybe) a new server and we are now down to one physical > box running everything but the DC's. > > Jon > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > TechEd this year is in Orlando, Florida, who is going, but more > > importantly, to me, is why. I need to write a justfication and even with > > that I doubt I get to attend but it is worth the try. This would be my > > first time going so it would help me knowing what is really the high points. > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > Jon Harris > > > > I was there last year, as some on this very list that I partied with. > > > > > > > > Here are the highlights. > > > > > > > > 1) Technical Briefings and Information on a variety of > > Microsoft/Non Microsoft products and software/hardware which you can bring > > back to your company and organization to meet business needs. > > > > 2) In depth labs, and technical resources from some of the best > > MVP's and Microsoft resources in the country. > > > > 3) Personally, as an example I spent probably 6-8 hrs of actual > > time talking with Scott Forsych from Orcsweb and the IIS team at the boots > > about a new Intranet design I was coming up with to propose to the web-team > > as a way to better provide high availability for our intranet/internet web > > presence. I was pretty dumbfounded when Scott told me that they just did a > > design similar to what I was coming up with ( Abiet 2+ months of research > > and work) for a customer a few weeks ago. That experience alone let me know > > I was on the right track. > > > > 4) If you aint got to see Mark Miansi's presentations in person, > > boy you are in for a treat, he is presenting like 6 tracks this year, and > > focusing on Vista Gotchas and the cool stuff you can do in Windows 2008, > > again, since those are hot right now in M$ land and might be on your plate > > to deploy, getting up on the latest information and knowledge only helps you > > shine when you get back to office. > > > > 5) The Hands on labs on a variety of subjects, technologies are > > available everyday, so you can work on what you have learned in the > > conferences, and reinforce it before you head back. > > > > 6) You receive a 4 CD set of all the presentations from all the > > presenters by track therefore you can review and read throughout the year to > > grab whatever information you need to get stuff done. > > > > 7) Vendor Parties and Raffles, trust me you want in on the > > Configuresoft, Double-Take, EMC, and others raffles, they had the best > > parties and the biggest prizes. > > > > 8) Lastly, there is a wealth of knowledge with just connecting > > with colleages and discussing issues, face to face, or going over ideas with > > the various MVP's and Microsoft reps that you are going to come back to your > > workplace with so many ideas you want to implement its not even funny. > > > > > > > > If you like to know more, just ask David Lum, John Cook and TVK, we all > > hung out and partied and swapped ideas on how plot shooks demise, too bad > > due to the recession our resources to take care of such overthrowing fell > > short. But heck even Shook got a set of DVD';s from me from Tech Ed for > > being a good sport J > > > > > > > > EZ > > > > > > > > Edward E. Ziots > > > > Network Engineer > > > > Lifespan Organization > > > > MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA > > > > Phone: 401-639-3505 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:49 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > > *Subject:* TechEd 2008 > > > > > > > > > > > > > Man managing just one box, I wish I had that job J > > > > I got 20 ESX servers, and about 300+ physical servers here, on top of 7K > in workstations. > > > > Z > > > > Edward E. Ziots > > Network Engineer > > Lifespan Organization > > MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA > > Phone: 401-639-3505 > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:23 PM > *To:* > NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: TechEd 2008 > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
