Hugely dissappointing doesn't come close to what it is.
Seriously. I keep saying this on this list. Am I alone in my experience? I
said a few months ago that I'm running out of systems. It's only gettting
worse now!
SCOM 2012 and SCCM 2012 are a right off.
Considering I was the main administrator of these systems in the 2007
version that's two more systems that I can no longer administer.
So. lets look at the past year.
Secure web gateway. lost last year.
Secure mail gateway. Lost about six months ago.
Diskeeper 12 clients. Lost three months ago.
Whats up gold. lost access to the alerts console last year.
Zenprise. Just implemented. Hundreds of unlabeled buttons.
VSphere 5.1. Lots of unlabeled buttons. Web based version is no bettter.
HP EVA. Tree view is partially broken since last update 2 months ago.
Now, last year I was in a team of two. The other person was quite new and
I was taking on the bulk of the work. He had the simple things like group
policy and active directory. Now, one of the people who used to work here
has come back. That in itsself is brilliant because he has a lot of
experience and he took over from the newby. We have another person on the
team now. He's been promoted from the service desk. I'm absolutely
delighted for him. He deserves the promotion and the oppertunity.
However, within no time he'll be passed the newby jobs and he'll be
looking at the interesting systems.
I used to read about people on various lists where they'd find that
gradually systems became less accessible and after some time they'd simply
find themselves surpluss to requirements.
I am in danger of this happening to me at this stage.
I don't have many systems left. I'm deliberitly holding back projects and
upgrades because the new systems aren't accessible to me.
So, tell me. What would you do in my situation?
Regards
Darragh � H�iligh
Fujitsu
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From: "Barry Toner"