Lots of money to be made, coming in AFTER another company has screwed the pooch.
I've worked as a sub on lots of enterprise deals, but if I can't architect the Exchange solution and have a say in the AD solution, I'll just walk away (unless I know the people involved already and trust them). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 password policies Tender away :) But tendering is full of risk. You could be undercut by some other outfit that can talk-the-talk, but can't deliver. Which leaves you with nothing, and drives you to bidding for deals that you don't understand at low cost. :) Coming from a "re-assuring expensive consulting" background, do not confuse sales and delivery :) Also, be aware of chewing off more than you swallow. As deals get larger they get much more complex than you can ever imagine. There's a few people with enterprise experience here - maybe they can chime in. For myself, I've been doing the enterprise-y stuff for 7 years now (10K+ seats), just in the Microsoft (and 3rd party add-ons) space and there are always new quirks with customer requirements, setup etc. Cheers Ken From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2010 9:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 password policies I am doing so, but want to tread carefully as they are reportedly paying these guys upward of a million pounds for the solution they are building. Why I'm not in the business of tendering for projects like this, I may never know. On 28 October 2010 14:35, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote: You may want to raise your concerns with the client, so you aren't seen as part of the problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com<mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 password policies Don't make me any more nervous. They are designing everything, AD, Exchange, AppSense, Citrix. They took one look at my designs when I first got here and binned them. From what I have seen the logon time for the new domain is already nearing two minutes. But as I am a contractor I am keeping my mouth firmly shut. More problems post go-live = contract extension On 28 October 2010 14:17, Webster <carlwebs...@gmail.com<mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com>> wrote: MBS and KS are correct, your conslutants are full of crap. Are you sure you want to use these people? I don't think I would let them anywhere near a DC or XenApp server. Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com<mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>] Subject: Windows 2008 password policies I know Windows 2008 AD supports fine-grained password policies, I also thought this was done through adsiedit voodoo such as documented here (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770842%28WS.10%29.aspx). I have a team of consultants on site who are telling me that fine-grained password policies can simply be set by blocking GPO inheritance on the Citrix servers OU (which is where all the computers sit that all our users log on to) and linking a new GPO to the OU which will override the default domain policy. Are they right, or am I? 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