re: So what kind of VAR/VAP are you?

bradley — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:51:00 GMT

Susan, you hit the nail on the head; "outsourced" CIO. We are SmB CIOs2GO. Yes many of us are the "guy/gal who installed the network." I believe these are even better. The CIO doing the work will notice "hey wait a minute I didn't realize they actually had 4 different workgroups!" (MShome, Workgroup, Office, xyzCompany)! The Jr. Tech guy/gal might not even notice this is causing have the issues with printers needing authentication.

I Did a Stage #1 Quick Fix yesterday for a new client. I made an inaugural backup of their beloved DataBase. I also backed up all workstations. Next, I mapped the various ports to the corresponding patch panel and switch. Found a Netgear FVS318 installed with the default admin/pwd. 1 pain point was backup...temporally solved; 2 pain point was printer names that weren't very descriptive....partially solved; Expanding...I didn't waste my time or their DIME renaming all 6 desktops and joining them to 1 'ONE' workgroup. I as the outsourced CIO would rather educate the client and spend their money once while upgrading their network to SBS03. This is a non-profit and they are either moving in the direction of this oCIO or they are going to being firing me. :-)

Have you seen the CryptoCard package? Pretty sweet! They appear to be going after RSA.

http://www.cryptocard.com/

eWeek article: http://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/columnists/2004/1018gaskin.html

Thanks for blogging from Encase.

SBS03 Rocks!!!