Lapse in time.

Okay, so it's been a while since my last post. Between work and trying to move a household of my mom's stuff into an apartment I've been pretty busy.

In trying to reschedule the 70-294 exam I had the joy of finding that Prometric had not used my exisiting MCP ID, rather they created a new one. Now I'm going through the pains of trying to get Microsoft to merge them so I can re-schedule the exam and get going again.

I'm also learning the joys of Microsoft hot fixes, as I came to find out after setting up a new Active Directory site on our production forest. Several dcdiag /e tests later and I was wondering what the heck happend. Turns out it's a known bug in a 2003 functional forest (KB832628). (If you are not one of the lucky one's with a way to obtain the fix, leave a message in the blog and I'll help you out.)

Delayed trendy

Okay, so I go out to study with my wife at the local coffee shop and lug the laptop along so of course I connect to the internet since they have a free wireless hotspot and of course I come here to update my blog.

Damn I sure do feel kinda cheesey sitting here composing. It's actually kind of interesting though to conversation drop on those around me, especially if they are drinking. ;-)

Well, so far I'm at least trying to update this blog frequently, but I don't feel like I'm making much of a useful contribution since this blog lacks any real focus. For now I think I'll keep updating and see where it goes.

In the end I may just try for an IT Professional blog or a MCSE blog.

I will add some more url's I found that have been helpful in studying:
GP Answers.com
MCSE World

Towel over your head

'K, so I've been pondering exactly what I'm doing with this blog. I was inspired by the Microsoft product-related blogs I stumbed across.

Active Directory Cookbook Blog
MS Exchange Blog

However, I still don't know if this is going to be a bunch of personal stuff, purely an IT professional blog or some hybrid.

Maybe it's purely a distraction from the work grind and something to occupy the last 20 minutes of the work day on a Friday. Heck I haven't even tried to point any friends or colleagues to this link.

Sunk it!

Well, I was tired of waiting on taking the Microsoft 70-294 exam so I jumped in head first only to sink. I won't say my score, but to me it was well off the mark.

I found the situations in the exam to be much more complex than those that were presented in examples in the Microsoft class, ExamCram2 books or the Selftest study software I used.

I'm going back to the books now, but it may take a while for me to get my confidence back up.

Are ya Blackberry'n Yet?!?

After being asked 5 times a day by everyone at work, the Blackberry Enterprise server is up and running. Neat device, especially with products such as sonicadmin out there to handle remote server administration. I can really see though how this could just become a toy or a status symbol for certain users.

Time wil tell.