February 2008 MARS Report
System Center Operations Manager
There wasn’t much work done on SCOM during this month. The focus has been on Nagios and getting information into it. The major issue with SCOM at the moment is to make sound when an error occurs. Kendra has found powershell commands to make the sounds, now we just have to make the event trigger.
OCTEL Replacement Project
This project is now in the RFP Stage, the RFP was sent out to 5 vendors, three have responded, one has taken themselves out of the running. Now we are working on the matrix to do an apples to apples evaluation, and inviting all three that responded in to demonstrate their product. We are still on track to have this project completed by July 31st.
Unified Communications Pilot
The exchange 2007 portion of this pilot, has been an interesting bag of worms. Getting email up and running was fairly simple. Found out that it was simpler to get a valid certificate for Active synch then to try and put the certificate on the phones. Once I placed the geotrust certificate on the server, I was able to synch up my phone. The next big issue was the free-busy information, I loaded the IOrepl software and configured exchange 2007 to use public folders for Free busy. The IORepl software showed that it was loading successful but nothing showed up. Opened a MS Support ticket, and there was a powershell command that had to be ran, that allowed different domains to load free busy information in the public folder, Once this was ran, everything was good to go.
MCSE Training schedule:
Had to change up my schedule. Found out that MS70-292 and MS70-296 was at end of life March 31st. Now I am cramming to pass both tests before that date. The biggest issue is finding time to study.
My Medical Training
Found out this month that Doctors could call your liver names. They called mine “Fatty” seems one can get Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
from not drinking to much. But now I have a liver that tells me when I eat something that is high in fat. So I have started working on my low fat diet that the doctor has put me one. The only good thing about this is that I can honestly say that Vanderbilt Medical Center was thourough and professional, and not only am I an employee but now have been a patient too.