Just to add a different perspective, not every organization lumps directory services and patch management or A/V together. I wouldn't consider it essential for a DA at a large company to know about SCCM, nor a DBA to know everything there is to know about storage management... we're talking major division of labor here.
--Steve On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:59 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > All of them make more than me (kind of irrelevant) all are Sr SE’s (I’m not > Sr) and they are in control of our AD design and – in theory – maintenance. > By default when they (or someone comes to them) have an AD question they > come to me as they understand “Active Directory, Dave’s our AD guy…”. > > > > IMO if someone knows less about AD than I do, they shouldn’t be a DA (not > that I’m awesome, I just feel I should be the lowest common denominator for > allowing DA access). > > > > From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:42 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: How you know some SE's aren't really in the Windows management > space > > > > Oy. > > > > How much do they make, and where are their jobs? > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:27 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m used to it now. I’ve got similar responses when I’ve suggested things > like Access Based Enumeration (they’d never heard of it) or mentioned that > we can use GPO to allow local admin access to specific servers instead of > making people Domain Admins (“you can do that?”). > > > > From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:15 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: How you know some SE's aren't really in the Windows management > space > > > > Did you *facepalm*? > > On Friday, October 14, 2011, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: >> “What’s Shavlik? Never heard if it…” >> >> >> >> And these folks are Domain Admins… >> >> David Lum >> Systems Engineer // NWEATM >> Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
