VBS Script for System Administrators – How to backup Outlook email automatically in a login or logoff script
Posted on March 13, 2007 - Filed Under IT Job Stuff | 6 Comments
If you are a Systems Administrator for your company and everyone is using Outlook or some other desktop email program, you’ve probably run into the situation where someone has lost all of their emails due to the fact that it’s saved locally on the user’s computer and not on the main servers. So if you’re a small shop and can’t afford to get Exchange server, then here’s a simply way to automate the backup of user’s Outlook PST files onto your server in a login or logoff script.
Windows Server 2003/Small Business Server hangs on "Applying Computer Settings"
Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under IT Job Stuff | Leave a Comment
Horribly, I had this happen to me as I walked into work one morning (thankfully a Friday) and it took me a whole weekend to figure out what the problem was. Basically, the reason your server is hanging is because there is a service that is not loading correctly when Windows tries to start up. So basically this service hangs and then your computer hangs! And it might take 2 to 3 hours before you get to see the desktop…not really what you want to happen when you have 100’s of users wondering what’s going on!! Thankfully for me, most of the other services were able to load, so even though I was not able to get to the desktop, people were still able to access the network drives.
Gathering software requirements for begining business analysts
Posted on March 8, 2007 - Filed Under IT Job Stuff | Leave a Comment
Working as a Business Analyst for the last 4 years has taught me a few things about gathering user and software requirements that I thought I would share! There are a couple of things you need to do and keep in mind when you are trying to design a system or application for a particular set of users:
A few more things about how to ask for a a raise in IT!
Posted on March 5, 2007 - Filed Under IT Job Stuff | Leave a Comment
I kinda went on a rant in my last post about preparing yourself before you go talk to your boss about a raise, so this one will be about what to actually say. Again, before you can do this, you really have to believe you’ve done something useful and that you are worth the higher amount you are asking for. So once you believe you are worth that much, then you can think about talking…
How to ask for a raise in the IT/Computer field!
Posted on March 5, 2007 - Filed Under IT Job Stuff | Leave a Comment
So you want to get a raise and you think you deserve more than what you’re getting right now, correct? Well good, just about everybody thinks that! And for those who don’t think that, well they will probably never get a raise!
Reasons to work for a small company if you’re in IT
Posted on March 5, 2007 - Filed Under IT Job Stuff | Leave a Comment
Ok, so if you’re in IT and you work for a small company, you need to fight your way into getting any kind of decent compensation. Small companies are cheap when it comes to paying out to their IT people, which is completely not cool especially if you’re the only man running the place!! But being at a small company has it’s perks:
1. You get to delve into any topic you are interested in (software, security, database, infrastructure) and there is probably going to be a lot of work to do in that area.
