SysAdmin Talk

So, welcome back, fellow field agents. From being a fledging SysAdmin in Episode 1 of this series, you’ve come to be a Legendary SysAdmin with the tools described in the second episode. Now, in this third episode, I will help you to become Mythical in proportion.

In my previous article, I showed you 10 Items That Should be in Every SysAdmin’s Backpack. In this list, I enumerate ten more things that a SysAdmin should carry with them if they want to earn a place in the Book of SysAdmin Legends. I hope you have a capacious backpack.

1. Two-way radios. You will inevitably need to send a coworker to a distant part of the building, but also need to work in coordination with each other. Why not use cell phones? Because they tend not to work in some of the odd places that SysAdmins find themselves wedged into. For example, HVAC tunnels. Don’t ask.

This is the third and final clip in this series explaining how to use the Exchange Management Shell to import PST files into Exchange 2010 mailboxes. In this video, now that we have a list of relevant machine names, as well as the names, owners and locations of PST files on those machines, we’ll run through a script to set up the Mailbox-Import requests from these PST files into their relevant mailboxes in Exchange. Further information can be found in this article.

In part one of this series, we looked at how to identify the relevant machines on your network (i.e. machines which are currently offering refuge to PST files), and in part 2 we covered how to use the Exchange Management Shell to identify the filenames, owners and locations of the PST files those machines. This final video will complete the process, and cover the actual import procedure.

This list is not for desk jockey SysAdmins. This list is for those faithful ones who like to walk through the server rooms once a day to make sure everything is in shape. The intrepid ones that know the plenum spaces with their eyes closed. The ones who can discern between a harmless cellar spider and a brown recluse, while groveling through a crawlspace with only their mobile phone as a light. Those who have to adjust outdoor wireless access points Hemingway-style; dying, in the rain… alone.