*>>**Lots of money to be made, coming in AFTER another company has screwed
the pooch.*

Sometimes. :)

Sometimes, too much of the money was eaten up in the first go round...


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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com>wrote:

>  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 J
>
>
>
> 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.
> J
>
>
>
> Coming from a “re-assuring expensive consulting” background, do not confuse
> sales and delivery J
>
>
>
> 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> 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]
> *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> 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]
>
> *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?
>
> We are simply looking at disabling the password complexity requirement for
> the test users in the new domain, and they won't let me have an account at
> the minute to test things (maybe they are worried I might find some errors),
> which is why I am having to ask.
>
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