What are you guys working on these days

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I know we've had one or two threads like this in the past...

So like the title says, what are you guys working on these days?

I am working on a BES migration, 4.1 to 5 and SCCM (setting up other offices for OSD) while studying for the 293

 

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Currently moving over most of our servers over to VMWare.

 

Various clients but BES 5 installation, managed services implementation for our monitored client base, got a SBS 03 -> virtual SBS 08 migration in the next month along with a+ and sec+ study and user fire fighting

 

Finishing off the documentation, setting up RDS infrastructure, rolling out Folder Redirection and looking for new job.

 

Pretty much just looking to get away from my current job.

 

I work as a consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services, providing support for our clients in the following technologies:

Active Directory
Office Communications Server 2007/R2 and Lync 2010
Exchange (2003, 2007 & 2010)
Forefront Identity Manager 2010
and Windows/Office

Right now I am working on Exchange 2010 migrations for 3 very large customers, OCS/Lync for two customers, Windows 7 (RUP/FR) and DC hardening for another customer, an AD migration from 2003 to 2008 R2 for another customer, and some bits and pieces...

Yes, keeping me very busy indeed. The thing I've learned when doing this kind of work, is that some customers clal on you at short notice, whilst others sign contract over long term. Juggling these requests is a challenge in itself, and we try not to disappoint any of our customers. Obviously, if customer Y takes a long time to make up their mind and if I've fixed a 3 month job opportunity at customer X, the moment customer Y wants me to come onboard, I need to find ways of ensuring I can work for both to the best of my abilities.

This job is definitely NOT for someone who cannot work under stress. Crazy, tough job, but I absolutely love it.

 

Projects

Just finishing off a Three Tier Firewall implementation using 6 Cisco ASA 5510 for a major UK bank.

SBS2003 to SBS2008 migration next week for a company with 50 users.

Then you have my normal work day to day work, today I have

- Configured a Cisco PIX Firewall to be sent to the US for a subsidary office of one of our clients
- Migrated a UK File Server into DFSR for fault tolerance with US parent company
- Setup a new user and sorted out a few minor user issues whilst on site

 

A cool new product that I can't yet disclose.

 

Well the BES server is now setup. I got the trial CALs which only gives me 20 user licenses... I will need to call my Provider and get a temp CAL and SRP to do my migrations next week.

 

Currently I am working on a multisite SAN implimentation, a 3 fold increase in our VM capacity, the migration from Exchnage 2000 to Exchange 2010, implimenting SCCM the rolling out Office 2010 and AutoCAD 2011 and lastly putting in Email Vault. Oh yeah and 2 office moves to be done before Christmas - We are busy in our place

 

Trying to have a life outside of IT.

 

I am currently working on migrating our physical servers to VMware as well as preparing a new domain for exchange server 2007.

It is very busy and challenging, but hey no said working in IT would be easy but am enjoying it even if though it can get stressful.

 

Stress is something you have to be able to take because once you get to a certain level, it becomes more and more stressful.

 

Hey Guys,

I have been working with a consultant to implement Lync 2010 along with Exchange 2010. It's a very complicated product with tons of server roles. I am trying get a Lync 2010 certification but there's not much resources out there. I found some Lync 2010 Tutorial but I am looking for something official written by sybex. Any one here to trying to get certified on Lync 2010 also?

 

Nice!!! I see that you are into BlackOps too : )

 

I haven't kept up with the latest certifications out there, so is there an MCTS/MCITP for Lync now? I thought only OCS had one out (a revised one to R2) which I managed to pass (but barely). Lync is thankfully a simpler product than OCS ever was... loving it so far

 

Ah, pretty cool. Something I might give a try when I'm done with Exchange 2010 exams sometime later this year.

 

Currently in Berlin for another 2 months dealing with an office migration, today my day consits of racking 4 or 5 switches and a few servers - and trying to get the fibre connection in to connect racks between two floors

 

im working on gettin a job :P