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Windows Server Estates

NT 3.51 through Windows 2000 — directory, messaging, proxy and systems management, at the depth of a twenty-five-exam MCSE.

Also known as Windows NT, Active Directory, Exchange

Server engineering across NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000: Exchange 5.0, 5.5 and 2000; Proxy 2.0 with logging to SQL; SMS 1.2 across a local site and remote hospitals; IIS and Index Server; Active Directory and directory services.

At StorComm this meant designing, specifying, configuring, installing and maintaining the entire estate — servers, routers, bridges, switches, modems, cabling and ISPs — plus the internet site, and writing the standards, policies and disaster recovery procedures around it. At Prudential, NT server estates, drive arrays and a thousands-strong workstation rollout. Later, a complete Windows 2000 domain design for Vystar Credit Union.

Obsolete now, and retained because it is where the systems thinking was formed.