EXCHANGE
Exchange CAS Build of ITS-HCWNEM77
Built new Exchange CAS in support of the MC FE collapse.
Troubleshoot Admin Network issues on ITS-HCWNEM76
Troubleshooting of intermittent admin network connectivity. It appeared to be a conflicting IP address but couldn’t get a ping back from another machine when this machine didn’t have the address configured. The issue ended up being a Cyclades switch that wasn’t responding to pings. Fixed the issue with a new ip on its-hcwnem76.
Assisted in testing MC exchange FE collapse
Helped the exchange team by taking part in the testing of the new MC Exchange CAS environment after the collapse.
Pushed for identification of Exchange Local FW rules for the new MC Exchange CAS’s
Windows Patches of UM environment
Patched the UM environment and troubleshoot resolve issue with ITS-HCWNEM75 CAS that was related to ASP.NET 1.1
Resolve SCOM Agent issues on Exchange boxes
Reinstalled SCOM agents after identifying local agent issues on EM01,EM04,EM75,EM76 and EM77
Memory Upgrade of 2007 Mailbox Servers
Upgraded memory on EM01-EM04 to 48Gb
Exchange Mailbox Switch Redundancy
Identified issues with mailbox servers teamed network switch redundancy. Documented the issues and put in changes to resolve them where possible.
WINDOWS
VUSpaceGroups Migration Project
Started documenting requirements, issues and procedure for migrating VUSpacegroups from Windows cluster to NAS.
*WINS1 Replacement
Replaced WINS1 production server with like replacement to resolve problems that were causing issues with our environment. Identified configuration difference between old WINS1 and WINS2 that was rectified in the replacement process. Documented replacement process.
Pertrac
Assist in troubleshooting/resolving issue with test pertrac server. Be available for when Pertrac needs connection to servers.
PRT1 replacement
Continued work on PRT1 replacement. All print queues have been created on the new print server minus the printers that the server does not have connectivity to. Working with Partner to identify LSP’s and contact them about the printers with no connectivity to ensure that they are not needed anymore to allow cleanup of them from the new server.
Antivirus Repository
Local testing of new Antivirus Repository has run into some issues that we are trying to identify the root cause of.
SCOM Rules
Identified issues with some of the custom SCOM rules that we had in place and reconfigured/documented the process for correctly limiting SCOM rules to a specific group or box.
PowerShell Scripting
Ping Test Script
Wrote a script to test ping connectivity. This was used to identify printers that were configured on PRT1 that had no connectivity.
Printer Information Script
Wrote a script to pull all the relevant information for each Print Queue remotely from PRT1 to facilitate the migration process to a new print server.
Assisted Roland with build doc automation script
Helped Roland with troubleshooting errors he was seeing in his base build doc automation script.