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SA Network Competitor? -- 48Upper from HP
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Wesley "Nonapeptide" Jun 24, 2010.

Exchange 2010 -- voice your opinions
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Graycat May 28, 2010.

Late April Fools? MS Outsources IT
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Started this discussion. Last reply by John McGrath Apr 18, 2010.

 

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Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion SA Network Competitor? -- 48Upper from HP
"Okay, so my blog post about 48Upper was published: http://thenubbyadmin.com/2010/06/23/hp-says-it-people-need-to-get-social/ I actually got a response from an HP person in the comments. He seemed to agree with my observations. Does anyone think I…"
Jun 24, 2010
Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion SA Network Competitor? -- 48Upper from HP
"Oddly, I have a post on my blog scheduled concerning this upcoming community. Stay tuned this Wednesday..."
Jun 22, 2010
Wesley "Nonapeptide" left a comment for Elizabeth Ayer
"I forgot to say "Thanks!" for the webinar this morning and answering my questions. Good stuff."
Jun 17, 2010
John McGrath replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion Exchange 2010 -- voice your opinions
"I am testing Office 2010 for roll-out to our Enterprise, and if Exchange 2010 is as good as the Office version, it will be a winner. They finally fixed a lot of issues with speed and bulk that plagued both 2003 and 2007. Here's hoping that the…"
May 28, 2010
Luqman replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion Exchange 2010 -- voice your opinions
"Our company has just upgraded to exchange yesterday, we are the Beta users, I don't have much to say right now, but will let you know soon ."
May 21, 2010
Elizabeth Ayer replied to Graycat's discussion Archiving
"Hey, we all have to have hobbies. 59. Not counting appliances and services. Can we say, 'crowded market,' kids? (There may be a few which are the same product under the marketing -- I certainly haven't actually investigated them…"
May 18, 2010
Jeff Hengesbach replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion Exchange 2010 -- voice your opinions
"I'm really looking forward to 2010. There are a lot of great positives (coming from 2K3): major IO improvements, OWA and user self service tools(message tracking, etc), Exchange Management shell (powershell). Value is greatly improved because:…"
May 12, 2010
Elizabeth Ayer posted a discussion

Exchange 2010 -- voice your opinions

 Do you think that Exchange 2010 is the single best piece of software ever written?  Or are you in the mood for a good ol' rant about it? Here's your chance to have your say!  I'm running a little survey on Exchange 2010 to get your early feedback on the headline features.  Just go to https://www.surveymk.com/s/RgExchange2010 There's also a little prize for one lucky winner:  a $100 gift certificate to…See More
May 10, 2010
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Late April Fools? MS Outsources IT

Just 12 days late, the news broke that Microsoft is outsourcing all of its IT help desk, PC, infrastructure and application support to Bangalore-based Infosys. http://rcpmag.com/articles/2010/04/13/microsoft-outsources-it-to-infosys.aspx Now, I can only presume that most of these support functions were already being performed remotely from most Microsoft workers, so in fact, MS employees may not notice a…See More
Apr 16, 2010
Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion Coming Soon - SysAdmin Network 1st Birthday
"A just released nerf gun, Nerf Raider: http://nerfguns.org/nerf-raider-cs-35"
Mar 12, 2010
Wesley "Nonapeptide" left a comment for Elizabeth Ayer
"Indeed. I feel like I'm doing some kind of bombing run when I make these greeting rounds. Just call me The Carpet Bomber of Friendliness."
Jan 18, 2010
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"Hi, George. Thanks for joining -- you have made our numbers up to 500! It looks like you have to cover a wide range of technologies -- I hope that we can give you some support! And also looking forward to your posts and observations....."
Jan 18, 2010
Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion Coming Soon - SysAdmin Network 1st Birthday
"So, in reference to the digest email that was sent out the other day: "Do you want more advice on solutions? (Like the Wikis in the Workplace thread)" That's always good. I like to hear what other people are using and how…"
Jan 14, 2010
Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion Coming Soon - SysAdmin Network 1st Birthday
"Wow! Okay, I retract my vote for a gerbil cannon. Plus, after a while, the area pet stores are bound to get suspicious after you keep buying out all of their rodents."
Jan 14, 2010
Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Elizabeth Ayer's discussion Coming Soon - SysAdmin Network 1st Birthday
"I vote for buying a gerbil cannon."
Jan 13, 2010

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Job title
Product Manager
Tech Interests - e.g. Virtualisation? Cisco? Etc.
Exchange, Active Directory, virtualization, new products
Website
http://www.red-gate.com/products/exchange

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SysAdmin Network – what’s it all about?

There is no shortage of sites offering technical advice and news to Sys Admins, so why a social network?



It is true, there are plenty of technical sites (eg. Microsoft TechNet, TechTarget sites like SearchStorage and SearchSecurity), but in contrast to the Linux community, Microsoft-centric sites tend… Continue

Posted on February 24, 2009 at 4:13pm — 2 Comments

Comment Wall (15 comments)

At 11:00am on February 23, 2009, Elizabeth Ayer and Michael Francis said…
Welocme - nice photo.
At 4:00pm on February 26, 2009, Elizabeth Ayer and Michael Francis said…
Hi

Thanks for saying that you will attend the webinar - you need to register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/894678900 in advance.

Regards
Michael
At 10:16am on March 3, 2009, Albert Widjaja said…
thank you Elizabeth.
At 10:53pm on March 5, 2009, Matthew Boswell said…
haha thanks! the site looks good.should make for a great community
At 2:47pm on March 6, 2009, Constantin Visan said…
Many Thanks Elizabeth
At 5:29pm on March 31, 2009, Everson Vargas da Luz said…
Certo, obrigado pela recepção.
At 2:01pm on April 9, 2009, Stéphane Gauthier said…
Hi everybody! first of all, my english is not to bad, but i'm french first, so maybe you gonna have fun to read me :). I'm in IT since 1998, i work for Telebec (Bell Alliant) and i managed different network for different client, i have a long experience with echange since the version 5.5 and i deal mostly with Windows Platform, si i hope you gonna help me with my day to day issue :P

Have a good day everybody!

Stef
At 10:41pm on April 15, 2009, milt mallory said…
Well, we're not completely happy with what we have for monitoring like most folks I suspect. Zenoss just got moved from the back burner toward the front, so I might comment on our early experience (mostly good) comparing it to (our particular) Nagios setup.

Milt...
At 3:20pm on July 21, 2009, Andrew Hale said…
Elizabeth, first off thanks for the comment. I've gotten some good advice from other admins (a few are on here). I've got a plan, now it's just taking everything one more step at a time. Unfortunately, I'm at a brink where if I bag one more bag of groceries or make one more Baconator, I'll snap!

Second, and most of all, Thank you for creating a site like this. I've been wanting to be a SysAdmin for going on 4 years and I've been rather surprised at how few sites there are for such a techie job. At first it was just a couple Networking sections on various PC and IT forums. Between ServerFault, PlanetSysAdmin aggregator, and this awesome site you and Michael have made, it's awesome. Not just great for a SysAdmin-in-training like myself, but for those in the trenches and livin' the life.

Thank you for the site, and Thank you for the warm welcome.

(P.S. - I do have IT related photos, but my last 2 jobs have very modest IT needs.)
At 4:47am on October 17, 2009, Matt Simmons said…
Elizabeth, it looks like you're RSVP'd to LISA in Baltimore! Are you really going to be there?

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