I’ll be going to the Windows Connections conference in April, which looks to be an interesting session on Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007. I’m also attending some SharePoint 2007 sessions that are being held pre & post conference.
It’s a 4-5 day conference, mainly for Information Technology professionals focusing on deploying technology within a corporate environment. But even so, it can be a lot of fun – the speakers are some of the best on their topics.
It should be a pretty great time – let me know if you’ll be there!
Ever had to write documentation for projects at work? The process can be tedious and fun at the same time. At least it is for me most of the time as the creative process lets you explore the best way to communicate a topic.
At the same time, its only as interesting as a person makes it, and the longer it takes the more boring it can become. That’s were I’m at getting the final tweaks finished on my latest document on mobile device configuration for one of our shipping departments.
The nifty parts of technical writing can be finally getting some standardization into the documents. You would be surprised at the differing levels of sophistication in the use of Microsoft Word! Some people still try to use spaces and tabs to fill empty space in their documents and forms! Ugh!
There are so many great features in Word that allow for the formatting that a person wants if they simply use the search feature in Help. Seriously, the help files have all the steps on using these features, and few people actually look it up. Instead they just hack it together and give up when it doesn’t work like they want it to.
So I’ve cleaned up several documents and forms for our Project Methodology, getting some standard formatting and features like file paths & versioning set up properly. Oh, well. On to more documentation!
With the Daylight Savings Time 2007 updates and a number of other projects, I’ve got a lot of SMS (that’s Systems Management Server) work to get through this week. There is some file permissions on our image, the monthly security patches, the DST updates, and a few others like Adobe 8 that need to go through testing.
While I like the aspect of having a management tool to do all the work, sometimes, SMS is a beast that needs to be beaten into submission.
So I’m back in the office after being out with the flu for several days. It’s business as usual, getting back to the tasks of enterprise projects and the associated mindsets.
This week is mainly to be getting caught up and surging ahead – at least that is my perspective this Monday morning. I’ve got a lot of items to do, most being documentation, training and hand-off to additional staff. Other items are to get some testing done, a project charter written, project scope put together and a few other incidentals that always arise.
That’s one meeting I spent a few hours in – talking about future messaging plans for my employer. Yeah, we’re on Exchange 2003 just like about 90% of the rest of the world – and it works pretty good.
But you can’t rest on your laurels, and just because Exchange 2003 SP2 has been nice and stable, doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for improvement. Of course the varied interests around the table always brings a spirited debate that brings out great ideas. There were no revelations as there sometimes are in these types of meetings, but it was a great session on getting a game plan together for identifying our next steps.
The most interesting thing in our recent “Future Technology” discussions is that there is more focused discussion on solving and preventing problems than there is of wiz-bang golly-gee tech stuff. That kind of stuff is usually saved for the last 10 minutes or so, just to get it on the (bottom) of the list. Hey, I’m still a tech geek and like to push the envelope as much as possible!
Of course, you’d expect that kind of productivity from this group, we’ve all worked together, oh, coming up on 10 years now.
So what’s on the list? Oh, mostly boring stuff to simply make email work better, redundancy, DR contingencies and so on. Other things like an in-house conferencing server would be more fun down the line a bit, so I’m holding out hope. Got to have a stable foundation to build on as they say.
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