Time / holiday / absence tracking and management?
Good morning, In my new role I'm managing a small team of people. I need a way of tracking absences sick leave, holidays and other scheduling things like this. I have sharepoint installed. I also have Exchange 2010. What would you suggest I use that would integrate with these two systems to meet this requirement? In my last job they had a great leave management system. It probably cost a fortune though as it was managed globally by Fujitsu. Now I'm in a company with at most 16 employees and only eight of us are full time! I've gone from system administrator to manager, support person, project scheduler, code patcher and database tuner in the space of two months. It's such a huge change from managing hundreds of servers. I think managing a small company is a lot harder even though the availability of hundreds of servers resting on my shoulders seemed hard at the time. I kind of miss it actually! Darragh
Darragh: We use Exchange to track this for my department. We created a shared calendar, and when someone wants time off, they set up a meeting and invite the shared calendar. Instead of the requests appearing right away on the calendar, the request goes to the person's manager, who then approves it and it then appears on the shared calendar. I don't mess too much with Exchange so am not sure how that's set up, but it works pretty well, managers have a record of vacations that have been approved, and the rest of us can see at a glance who's in and not. We use this for vacation, comp days, even training. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 3:26 AM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Time / holiday / absence tracking and management? Good morning, In my new role I'm managing a small team of people. I need a way of tracking absences sick leave, holidays and other scheduling things like this. I have sharepoint installed. I also have Exchange 2010. What would you suggest I use that would integrate with these two systems to meet this requirement? In my last job they had a great leave management system. It probably cost a fortune though as it was managed globally by Fujitsu. Now I'm in a company with at most 16 employees and only eight of us are full time! I've gone from system administrator to manager, support person, project scheduler, code patcher and database tuner in the space of two months. It's such a huge change from managing hundreds of servers. I think managing a small company is a lot harder even though the availability of hundreds of servers resting on my shoulders seemed hard at the time. I kind of miss it actually! Darragh _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Darragh: We use Exchange to track this for my department. We created a shared calendar, and when someone wants time off, they set up a meeting and invite the shared calendar. Instead of the requests appearing right away on the calendar, the request goes to the person's manager, who then approves it and it then appears on the shared calendar. I don't mess too much with Exchange so am not sure how that's set up, but it works pretty well, managers have a record of vacations that have been approved, and the rest of us can see at a glance who's in and not. We use this for vacation, comp days, even training. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 3:26 AM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Time / holiday / absence tracking and management? Good morning, In my new role I'm managing a small team of people. I need a way of tracking absences sick leave, holidays and other scheduling things like this. I have sharepoint installed. I also have Exchange 2010. What would you suggest I use that would integrate with these two systems to meet this requirement? In my last job they had a great leave management system. It probably cost a fortune though as it was managed globally by Fujitsu. Now I'm in a company with at most 16 employees and only eight of us are full time! I've gone from system administrator to manager, support person, project scheduler, code patcher and database tuner in the space of two months. It's such a huge change from managing hundreds of servers. I think managing a small company is a lot harder even though the availability of hundreds of servers resting on my shoulders seemed hard at the time. I kind of miss it actually! Darragh _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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