Day Two in the new tech world

It’s day two of the new job and I’m no more confident in my abilities than was yesterday. The amount I need to learn is just overwhelming. I used to think we supported a lot when I was at Microsoft. That’s nothing compared to this. It goes way beyond Exchange and includes OCS, SQL, Backups, Restores, Blackberry, ActiveSync, Drive Space issues and who knows what else results from the events a server generates. I haven’t worked with any of this technology and it scares the hell out of me. Just trying to remember all the Windows domain and forest terminology is hard enough, but when you pile on the rest it’s almost too much to comprehend. Once I get on top of things I will feel better, but there’s such a long road to go. Anybody got a sick bag? I’m feeling a little dizzy here.

Day 1 of the new job

It’s day 1 of the new job and I’m completely overwhelmed. This place is a madhouse. There is the smell of chaos in the air. Do they know they hired me? Perhaps I should just sit over here in the corner and try not to cause any problems. Funny thing though, this place is full of old MS people and several people I used to work with. That’s good thing because they’re fully versed in my ignorance and won’t hold it against me. Seriously though, it’s great see these guys again. It’s been a long time. How, who’s going to teach me about Exchange? And what’s that big tote board on the wall for?

16TB and all’s well!

It’s the smell of a new hard drive. I just bought another 3TB in hard drive space which brings me to a total of 16TB. I have 9 external hard drives and two internal drives on this machine. Now you may ask yourself, why would any sane person need that much space? The answer is, I store things. I store TV shows, music, movies and lots and lots of stuff. I’m actually converting my movies from DVD to MP4 format so I can watch them anywhere. I can play that on the iPad or the TV. I’m also putting all my TV shows on a server so I can watch whatever I want. It uses a ton of space but is far more convenient than running around looking for DVDs. For anyone who wants to know, CloneDVD, CloneDVDMobile and AnyDVD are absolutely necessary if you plan to build a digital library. I tell you what though, moving 500GB worth of […]