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Written by Winfred DeKreij
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Microsoft 06/07 to Current Systems Engineer, Tier 2, 2200 users. Production:
- Deploying Windows Server 2003/2008 according to MSIT standards. Slipstreamed drivers in nonstandard hardware and deployed the servers. Debugging kernel dumps to troubleshoot BSODs (it's almost always the drivers, not Windows!).
- Set up and implemented a global Virtualization project that automatically deployed thousands of Server 2008 VMs on hundreds of Server 2008 Core Hyper-V servers. My contributions to this project have saved thousands of man hours, reducing a complete Hyper-V with VMs installation from over 16 hours, to less than 5 minutes. While enforcing a uniform standard for 200 regional office installations.
- Migrated user and group folders to new file servers (mostly with robocopy commands executed from within VBS scripts and NTBackup). Wrote VBS scripts that verified changed DFS referrals.
- Scripted the Active Directory to automatically find users no longer working at Microsoft and move the user folders for final backup and deletion. Then took it the next step, incorporated office locations. When users now move from the location I support to a different one, the user folder is automatically archived.
- Installed, migrated and supported print servers and coordinated printer migration and deployment in multiple branch offices. Developing a special printer queue maintenance script.
- Created numerous ad hoc scripts to resolve issues affecting hundreds of servers. From forcing zero day vulnerability updates to Virus scanners that require re-installation, to generating spreadsheets of missing server information from WMI.
Line of Business/Development: - Upon request, wrote an inventory program with a small GUI from scratch in VBA that automatically prints bar code labels when adding new spare hardware to it and that helps keeping stock in a dynamic environment with the use of a bar code scanner and a label printer. Then later moved the inventory to a proprietary inventory program running on SQL 2003.
- Installed and administrated several Virtual Server farms with Microsoft System Center Management Console and library servers used for testing the deployment of Windows Vista Clients with BDD and Windows 2008 implementations and the functioning of WMI/SNMP scripts.
- Installed and administrated a Windows 2008 Hyper-V server farm with Server 2003 VMs for regression tests, that automatically deploys, deletes and reverts to snapshots when required (using PowerShell).
- Installed and administrated yet another 2008 Hyper-V server farm with Server 2003 and Server 2008 VMs, created a automated deployment system for easy creation of new VMs.
- Used the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator to asses Hyper-V migration for development servers
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