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What A Week
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This week has been one of those defining moments in my career where I prove whether or not I am worth my salt as an IT guy. My team has been feverishly preparing to migrate 250 users from an existing 1500 user Exchange 5.5 environment to a new Exchange 2003 environment. As I type this, I am sitting in my cube, bleary-eyed, waiting for a few public folders to replicate. I have put in somewhere around 61 hours of work this week, with 6-8 more hours to go. I am not unique as most of my team has put in similar or greater hours to get this project rolling.
As it stands, we're about 70% done and are on-track to complete the entire project today. I am very excited about how well this project has worked out. I am also impressed with the dedication that my team has put into it. I have had a great time working on this project and other than a few hiccups, this has been one of the smoothest projects I've run considering the scope. I work with a solid group of professionals and it is quite inspiring.
Naturally, the new Exchange 2003 back-end servers are attached to a HP EVA-5000 Storage Array in a clustered configuration. We also setup load balanced front end servers to handle Outlook Web Access and mobile e-mail access.
All of this work has been to support the seperation of WebTrends from NetIQ. I am very excited about WebTrends going private as I think it will enable us to move at a much quicker pace. Part of belonging to a larger public company is the inherent slow-down caused by red tape. Screw the red tape... just let me do my job! It's not often that employees are happy when they're company is sold, but in this case the announcement caused much rejoicing. :)
I really miss my kids. I've spent maybe a combined total of 1 hour with them this week. I will be so tired tomorrow that I will likely just crash in front of the TV... maybe watch a movie or two with the kiddies.
Oh, by the way: check out the cool Easter pics of the kids.
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