The Sys Admin

Desktop Support Links

I received a comment from Chris Roller one of my posts "New System Admin Support Blog" where Chris shared a couple of support links with me that I wanted to share with you.

The first link is an Enterprise Level Desktop Management Forum link at www.tek-tips.com .

The second link is a Windows Vista Desktop Strategy link called Determining Desktop Management Strategies that can be found here .

The third link is a Desktop Remote Management Solution from www.scriptlogic.com,

and the last link is an article on Desktop and Print Management.

Thanks Chris

Technorati : Desktop Support, Microsoft

Windows Admin reading list

Here are a couple sites for all the Windows Admin's to check out:

The Windows Server Division Weblog. This Technet site focuses on Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Longhorn, Storage Server, Compute Cluster Server, Centro,SBS, and Virtualization. The url is http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/default.aspx and its worth visiting.

Another Microsoft site is the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). The MSRC is working to help protect folks from vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. Here is the MSRC url ... http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/default.aspx

Both sites frequently post articles and information relevant to day to day support of Microsoft Server environments.

Technorati : Microsoft, Security, System Administration

Unix Links

I came across a couple of links that I thought I would share with you. The first is a link that has multiple links for AIX, HPUX and Solaris, here is the link ... http://www.unixguide.net/

The second link is from the SANS site and identifies security differences between AIX, HPUX and Solaris, here is the security link ...... http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/unix/936.php

Technorati : AIX, HPUX, Solaris

ITIdiots MSCE Pilot Session

Great Video Pilot of MCSE Cram Sessions from the ITIdiots. This is Episode 41: MSCE 070-290 Cramsession which referneces ... Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices.

Powershell Video

Here is a great video on Microsoft Powershell from Scott Swigart at Dr. Dobb's In Praise of Powershell

Scott Swigart

Windows Powershell is a powerful command-line admin tool that combines the best features of a UNIX shell with the power of the .NET Framework

Check it out   In Praise of Powershell

New System Admin Support Blog

For those of you who do not know me and may have stumbled on this blog, I am a technology professional with of 20 years of support experience. I am currently managing a great group of senior level administrators supporting both a Microsoft Windows environment and Unix environments.

I have been listening to technical podcasts for about 2 years now and I have been blogging for about a year now primarily concentrating on my Technical Manager's Perspective blog located at www.techmgr.net .

I really enjoy blogging and communicating and I know that I have a little following, however most of the folks that have communicated with me are strong technical folks and multiple comments that I have received are that my blog perspective is more managerial focused than technical solution focused. My recent interest and reading has been on the managerial side, which leads to more posts about managerial content as opposed to technical content, and after taking another look at the my blog A Technical Manager's Perspective, I felt my focus was more on the Managerial side than on the technical side.

So, in an attempt to maintain both a technical and managerial focus, I have created this blog primarily for system and network administrators. I would like to see this blog become a resource for all administrators, however I realize that this will probably will not happen if I am the only one contributing to this blog. I have a plan to try and make this blog be a great resource however, you will have to wait for me to work out a few details before sharing my plan with you.

Thanks for visiting ....

Technorati : System Administration