Thought of the day 10/27/2007 —- Wisdom
By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Thought for the day 10/26/2007
General Colin Powell’s Rules:
1. It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your
position falls, your ego goes with it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone
else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision. Be demanding.
12. Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
October 2007 MARS
Email Oneness:
This project has made it ways; a presentation has been made and has been. The recommendation was to merge the two teams and keep equipment separate until we migrate into a unified 2007excahnge structure. This was the recommendation of the team, I believe the recommendation was accepted by senior management, but no movement unit a formal Chancellor is chosen.
Octel Replacement:
We finished the RFI document, and sent it out to 14 potential vendors. Some vendors took themselves out of the running. Work has been done on the RFP to get it ready for sending out the first week of November. This project is right on schedule. The biggest question in my area to date, is the storage of voice mailboxes. Will it be on the mail system or a separate system? Current discussions are pushing it to separate storage systems.
System Center Operations Manager Implementation
Operations Manager 2007 has been a bear to troubleshoot. In the test environment, I built the test Vm Server without following the build document, this led to issues, of apps loaded on the OS Drive. To correct this we decided to build a new Ops Mgr Server, and promote it the Root Management server. We followed the build document for this one. There was a Kerberos error that crept up. Event id 386: Come to find out we were modifying the Local Security access policy to minimize the access from the Network. Once this was corrected everything started to flow again.
We are still working on setting up the connection to the new Nagios.
Proof Point Load Balancing:
We were able to get the dev environment up and running. There are three PPS appliances behind the CSM. Kenon and myself tested a load simulation early on a Sunday morning. We started out by trying 30,000 emails an hour. This test went smoothly, the cms didn’t even hiccup. To see more of a load we pressed it up to 45,000 emails an hour, here the CSM did exactly as predicted, it saw the loss of an appliance, and rerouted new connections to one of the other ones. This was a huge win, since it was dynamic, and the connections that were to the box that died, requed and sent when it found an available connection.
GoodLink Server Pilot:
All the documentation has been done. We have engineering diagrahms and documents. We have been provisioned a VM. The software and build should be done by 11/2. This will give us much of November to find and test 5 users for this service.