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Tom From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT question (was RE: AD and firewall ports) I'm inspired. I am going to kick IT into touch and spend the rest of the year finishing my book. Where's that "resignation letter" site I used recently? On 6 January 2011 15:57, Thomas W Shinder MD <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Jonathan, While in general what MDs make is a lot higher than those in IT - averages don't tell the entire story. IT has been very good to me and my wife and I suspect that I'm better of financially than I would have been had I stayed in neurology. In addition, I don't have the overhead that I would have had - I work from my home office, don't spend money on clothes (as those of you have met me at TechEd or other conferences can attest to), don't have malpractice to worry about, and don't spend more than $40/mo for gas :) But regardless of pay, I do pretty good and I *love* my work. I look forward to new challenges every day - and since I've joined MSFT life is even more interesting and fun - new problems to solve everyday, working with MSFT customers every day, and trying out new approaches on a regular basis. When I was practicing medicine (I left in the mid 1990s) I saw the writing on the wall and realized that I was young enough to get out without much damage. The early years were hard, but with a plan, hard work, and dedication to something I really loved doing, things turned out better than I could have ever imagined. That's the short course :) Tom From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT question (was RE: AD and firewall ports) Would I be incorrect in assuming that the MCSE who used to work at a lumber yard now earns substantially more than when they were employed at said lumber yard? Having worked for a private practice healthcare organization for the last 12 years, and having performed a payroll conversion in this organization, I also happen to have been privy to some of the physician salaries during that time. While what I make is nothing to sneeze at, physicians make more - even first year non-shareholder general practice physicians right out of residency make more (here anyway) than I do. Let's not even talk about specialists. While I know that money certainly isn't everything, it is a motivating factor much of the time. Like I said, I'm just curious what would motivate someone who spent at least 8 years (and who knows how much $) on higher education and residency rotations to make the transition from the healthcare world to the IT world - after obtaining the credentials as an MD. Certainly there is nothing wrong with that in the least. I'm simply curious. Everyone has a story, and this one (to me at least) seems like it might be more interesting than average. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected] www.eaglemds.com ________________________________ From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT question (was RE: AD and firewall ports) Same way a guy who worked at a lumber yard for 5 years did. :) Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT question (was RE: AD and firewall ports) Ok, I'm curious. How does an MD end up becoming an MCSE? (serious question) Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected] www.eaglemds.com ________________________________ From: Thomas W Shinder MD [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AD and firewall ports Firewall guys are somewhat unclear regarding the relationship of "ports" and their implication in a security context. Often the easiest way to get around these guys is to use IPsec between the DMZ host and any other host on the intranet. Then you only need to allow UDP port 500. That makes the firewall guy happy and allows all protocols through the IPsec tunnel. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AD and firewall ports IIRC that KB that describes restricting DCOM ports actually explicitly recommends 100... Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> c - 312.731.3132 From: joseph palmieri [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 6:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AD and firewall ports Need assistance with firewall ports and active directory our server admin submitted a change request to open over 1000 port to support AD. The change was denied and resubmitted requesting a minimum of 100 ports to support RPC communications to a member server within our DMZ. Our firewall engineers stated while monitoring the firewall only 20 ports were communicated over and 100 ports are not needed. 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