Quote Originally Posted by gnihcraes View Post
I'm old, did retail for years, dos, all versions of windows etc, moved into server support, hp xompaq ibm, netwok support, older cisco stuff. Had kids and needed more time at home. Its way easier for me to be desktop support now and know the network and server side. Heck, network support is shocked that i know something aboit what needs done. I'm also helping the server group on things some of them don't understand.

Share security? Hidden share?
Add a port to a vlan...

What do these certifications mean? I'm not up on the latest stuff, but the basics we all should know.

I like where I'm at mostly, 8-5 and being desktop, im not working after hours and can blame the others when it doesnt work monday morning.


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No doubt.

My current client called off their production cutover earlier in the week because the coding and system support staff couldn't figure out some issues they were having on their test system. I'm primarily infrastructure and systems and storage level stuff mind you but have done switch/route, WAN stuff, security, and too many other things worth listing.

Got down to the wire today on a "dry run" of production cutover after I had them hours ahead of schedule and folks were getting a bit flustered so I asked if the data errors they were getting that were blowing up the screens could possibly be an issue with the data itself. The error is rather generic and not helpful at all to debug. I say, "So have you actually tried looking at the data (table) outside the application? They look, Um, it's "masked data" that's not getting unmasked, as in it's column level encryption on SSN's in those tables that contain them and they don't have the correct keys. Duh. Oh, you restored an older version of the key management middleware and then upgraded it, and then later (keyword later) moved production data over without the keystore ro going back through that software migrate/upgrade? DUH.