New Blog

I'm starting this blog to hopefully help other sysadmins get the answers to some problems that they find perplexing.  As a systems administrator, I have managed lots of different technologies since I started out in 1996:

• Windows 3.1 (and 3.11)
• Windows NT (Workstation and Server)
• Windows 95 and 98
• Windows 2000 (Workstation and Server)
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows 8 and 8.1
• Windows 10

While I never once used Windows ME, it looks like I owe a great deal to Microsoft!  I also manage Exchange Server, a bit of SharePoint and the whole range of client applications.  I've been using VMware ESX server since v 3, through versions 4, 5, 5.1 and now 6.0.  I do a small bit of Citrix XenApp.  To assist with the management of all of these systems, I manage McAfee ePO, WSUS, a web filter, an email filter and much more.

During all of these years experience, I regularly encounter perplexing issues.  Most of the time, knowledge, experience or a quick Google will sort out any problem.  From time to time, I will encounter an issue that requires throwing the kitchen sink at it to get a resolution.  It is to help others who have the same odd issue, that I create this blog.

I will bounce around a whole load of different technologies with ideas and solutions that I've found to specific issues.  I hope it gets you out of a spot some day.