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I came upon a great list of System Administration tools for all environments this evening after reading a recent Friends in Tech (FIT) post. The site is www.tlbox.com and they have a section of many System Admin Tools.
Check it out ...
Windows Server 2003 SP2 became available at the beginning of the 2007 and now Microsoft is ready to distribute via Automatic Updates. If you have not fully tested SP2 in you environment you need to complete testing and possibly stop automatic updates or block SP2. Here is Mary Jo Foley's post about this on ZDNet ....
Microsoft to push Windows Server 2003 SP2 via Automatic Updates on Patch Tuesday by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley -- On June 12, this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft will be delivering more than its usual bundle of security fixes and patches for Windows, Office and other products. The company also will be starting to push Windows Server 2003 Service Pack (SP) 2 to customers via its Automatic Updates patching mechanism -- unless admins opt to block it.
There are 6 new Microsoft Security Patches coming out next week. Four patches affecting Windows with a Maximum Severity rating of Critical that will require a reboot, another patch that also impacts Windows with a criticality of Moderate and one patch that affects Microsoft Office with a criticality rating of important.
Here is the link to the Microsoft Security Response Center June 2007 Advance Notification and for more information about each patch, follow this to the technet link that outlines the impact to each product and Operating System.
How you had a Microsoft related question that you could not find the answer to? Did you have to call Microsoft and pay to get you answer? Well this may help ...
Here is a link to the Windows Server 2003 Technical Library and the Windows Server 2008 Technical Library.
Both links start at the top level index of Documentation for each product.
As a Technical Manager responsible for many enterprise level applications and servers, I would occasionally have to interview System Administrators. I developed a series of questions that I would ask each candidate, concentrating on what they have been doing recently, what their interests are, and then move on to technical skills.
One question that I ask each candidate is to explain "RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5". For those of you that need a refresher or are a little fuzzy on the answer, here is some help ......
RAID storage explained by ZDNet's George Ou -- Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an explanation of what RAID storage is. I won't go in to every RAID type under the sun, I just want to cover the basic types of RAID and what [...]
