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 :-)
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 :-)
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
Defintely sound like you are way overloaded.
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 2:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: TechEd 2008
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