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Interesting article.

Thanks for the post and the discussion.

Good article.

Some times we all need a reality check. Thanks for sharing.

It helps to re-iterate the basics. After all, even if we have been at IT a long, long time, refresher courses are always appreciated.

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It seems silly but being able to produce maps of processes and environments should be a basic skill for all system administrators. I spent many years working with Industrial Engineers and in almost every meeting the first five minutes was to develop a map of the process or environment. Given time, all these small maps made…

Great Article!!! Got me thinking....

Good reading.

Seems that the KTLO (Keep the lights on) tasks are the priority and not the big projects. Good article.

Good information. Thanks for the posting.

Powershell is a great enhancement for management Microsoft products. Thanks for the great posting!

These are becoming far too often now. I think it shows the importance of not racing to deliver new features in the marketplace at the cost of ensure security. 

Good information.

Thanks for sharing the article.

I haven't had to hard code a port in over 5 years. Auto sense works for linux, windows, etc. for me. Sure the issue might have been with the smaller switch. I have had issues with non-managed switches not communicating well with upstream cisco switches.

Thanks for sharing.

Great article.

Interesting discussion.

Good points in this article. As a veteran in the IT support realm for 30+ years, I have taken for the first to actually thinking about my career and overall satisfaction. I spent most of my career in various organizations in the trenches both break and fix as well as administrative. I appreciate the thoughts in this post.

Thanks for sharing this post!

Interesting article!

Interesting article. Thanks for posting.

Agree with mfmahler. Interesting article. In theory the information garnered would be useful for tracking what's going on, but I do wonder what the impact would be during the bad times. Wonder if you set it up in a two stage firewall configuration. Where you have two firewalls in series or something similar to that where…

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Good article. I guess I have a reason for my paranoia.

Thanks!

So true. As a scientist, we know the Scientific Method done cold, but the subject of investigation is always moving! 

The smallest details can bring down the largest system.