Welcome to the Enterprise Admin. Blog

Welcome!

After a couple of days tweaking Wordpress, testing plugins and waiting for DNS proliferation the website is ready for it’s first post.

Hopefully over the coming months content posted here will from time to time be of interest to System Administrators supporting their Enterprises. Posting frequency will vary depending upon the time I can afford but you can also follow me on twitter @stuartconey for new post notifications. Check out the About link for a small bio.

I have taken a wide remit covering technologies I use on a day to day basis and hopefully will over time provide a broad reference point for tips as well as administrator related discussion and opinion.

From time to time I will ask colleagues, (old and new) and friends in the industry to contribute guest posts.

For a flavour of what to expect,  techology areas I am aiming to cover are

  • Active Directory with Windows 2008 Server Core R2

  • Centrify Linux and Unix User and Computer objects into Active Directory

  • VMware vSphere 4, View and Ochestrator

  • PowerShell 2.0, Active Directory extensions and VMWare PowerCli

  • Blade Logic Server Provisioning

  • MS SCOM

  • Audit Compliance, PCI/SOX

    • as well as touching on other technology areas such as Storage, Networking, Linux and SQL.

    Scripting automation has always been of particular interest, having used Perl and vbScript extensively my focus now is transitioning to PowerShell and it’s extensions, which I see as the prime tool going forwards for managing both large Microsoft Windows Infrastructures, (AD, Sharepoint, Exchange and SQL) as well as other platforms such as VMware.

    All feedback is welcome, ideas, corrections (I am sure there will be many!) and hope the articles posted are of use to the administrator community as a whole.

    And finally, wishing everybody a Happy New Year and much success in 2010!

    2010
    01/04
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    1. Thanks for the contact Chris. I will check out your company website and see if and how it can compliment our existing 3rd part AD support tools. I will ping you with feedback shortly.

    2. Stuart,
      Great to see you active in this space. I was curious if you would be interested in trying out an Active Directory Reporting solution my company MaxPowerSoft has created? Our core competence is making Active Directory Reporting super easy. If interested, I’d be willing to get you a fully functioning key outside of our standard trial registration process. Please contact me at the email address I specified above.
      Kind Regards,
      Chris Danielson

    3. Thanks for the feedback Jeffrey,

      Today, vbScript is the predominant tool used for administration tasks, the move to Powershell v2 has pre-requisites, the most important being re-skilling the Administrators, identification of areas where most benefit can be gained from PowerShell and cross departmental buy-in from the various BackOffice teams such as SQL DBA’s to leverage standardization and maximize benefit across the environment.

      I will feed back on problems, issues and hopefully a few workarounds and solutions too!

      thanks again
      Stu.

      • Jeffrey Snover
      • January 4th, 2010

      I’m looking forward to reading your blog. I would appreciate it if you documented any problems/issues you had making the transition from perl/vbscript to PowerShell and to let us know where you think we can do a better job.

      Best Wishes!

      Enjoy!

      Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
      Distinguished Engineer
      Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell
      Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx

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