Wie bereits erwähnt, bin ich seit Montag regulär angestellt und ein “ganzes” Teammitglied. In dieser Firma ist es üblich, dass der- oder diejenige etwas zum Znüni mitbringt. Natürlich hielt ich mich daran, und hab gestern morgen den Dorfbeck überfallen. Klar, man hätte auch vorbestellen können. Dies würde aber ein gewisses Mass an Planungsvermögen voraussetzen, an …

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Heute morgen hatte ich mein Probezeitgespräch. Offenbar hab ich etwas richtig gemacht. Sie behalten mich!

Der berühmte “erste Tag” ist geschafft. Und ich bereue meine Entscheidung noch immer nicht Ist wohl ein gutes Zeichen.

End of February we ordered a Broadband Cable connection for our Backup-Office (on the other end of the country). Last week, the Cable-Modem finally arrived (Remark: 3.5 months later). Our guy there connected the Modem and … drumroll please … it didn’t work. Today I called the help-line, hoping that they could tell me if …

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Today we look at the hardware that we will need for the new infrastructure. Let us look at the requirements: Mail communication with Web-Access Collaboration through Share Point Expandability for future Applications (Time-Reporting is a hot topic) SQL-Server supporting both Share Point and other web-applications High availability

We have gotten the task to set up a new communication and collaboration infrastructure for our department to work with both external partners, contractors and customers. The old environment consists of an Exchange 2003 Server with OWA enabled, a Windows Sharepoint Services server 2.0 and a SQL 2005 server as back-end. All three Servers run …

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Currently I am working on a new Infrastructure farm for our Department. For the past two years we have used some spare space on a ESX-Farm of an other department. Mid of November we were informed that they need the space for themselves and will kick us out by the end of the year. My …

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Normally I have a very normal eight-to-five job in an office. But working in the IT-Industry sometimes requires you to shift your working hours to the night. For example if you’re rolling out Office 2007 in a customers environment. Its not too bad doing this as it gives me experience, so no complaining about that. …

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As some of you probably know, I’m working for a large IT-Company that provides complete Support-Packages for companies. And today we started a new project. I just found out today that the Sales-guys knew about this for 8 months. Well, no one thought of telling the people that were supposed to do the actual work, …

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