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Jonathan NobleComputing Officer, Newcastle University Blog: View Jonathans thoughts on Powershell, Tech and Stuff Biography: Having had a summer job in the University Computing Service (now Information Systems and Services) before my final year, I joined full-time in Summer 1999 to work on academic PC systems. Soon after we started migrating from NT 4.0 and Netware to Windows 2000 with Active Directory, and with the advent of management via Group Policy, expanded over time from managing 1,300 student PCs to the around 10x that number (practically every PC on campus). One of my most important roles is managing Active Directory user accounts and Exchange mailboxes, which developed into a fully-fledged bespoke identity management system running on SQL Server with an ASP.NET front-end, running on IIS. All of those services (and several more) are operated by me and 5 colleagues in the Windows Infrastructure Team, and these days I'm mostly using PowerShell to work with them all. Top Challenges: Always trying to do more with less. Managing expectations ("...well Gmail gives me a an xGB mailbox, why don't you?"). A constantly changing landscape (rapid turnover in our large user population and giant software portfolio; new overseas campuses, etc). If you were a superhero who would you be? What do you mean, "if"?! Erm, I mean, I'd probably be Spiderman, because he does everything that a spider can |
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