For those of you who don’t already know, I work as a sysadmin and network manager at St Leonard’s College in Melbourne. One of the very nice things about also being a tech writer is that the stuff I tend to do in my day-to-day job feeds back very nicely into the stuff I write about, and the technology, people and information I get exposed to through the tech writing feeds back into the everyday job. I hate the word “synergy” but….well, consider it used.
Microsoft invited me to a reviewer’s workshop in Redmond back in October 2007 on Windows Server 2008. It was my first trip to Redmond and coming from Melbourne the weather made me feel right at home. That was also where I met Mark Wilson, with whom I have collaborated since.
From the perspective of my job at the College, the trip was fantastic because it meant we were ready to go with Server 2008 well ahead of where we might otherwise be. We also wanted to get stuck into Hyper-V, and ended up implementing both products when Server 2008 went RTM. Haven’t had a single moment’s regret in doing so – it’s proven to be a fantastic product suite and is supporting the College brilliantly.
I was dealing a lot with Kleefy back then before he made the big move overseas, and Michael initiated a Microsoft case study on the College’s use of Server 2008 and particularly Hyper-V. Well, after much to-ing and fro-ing between lots of stakeholders, organisers and timezones the study is complete and online:
“Australian School Implements New Projects Quicker and Easier by Virtualizing Servers”
I must admit it’s nice to see something online related to the work I do here at the College – I’m so used to submitting online content for other people that it’s good to have a reminder that I do actually have a day job.
Big thanks to Kleefy and Jeffa for supporting me over the last 18 months with this project.
