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.
Documentation. That thing that most SysAdmins know they should do, but usually don’t. Have you stopped to think that maybe documentation is not limited to a wiki or ye olden Moleskin notebook? No, documentation can and should also take the form of labeling your assets. I’m not talking mere inventory tracking; I’m talking honest-to-goodness informational documentation in label form. The following are some tips that I’ve learned over my time as a SysAdmin, concerning the art of labeling.
All users in your Exchange organization are automatically listed in the Global Address List. When you have multiple departments, or maybe multiple companies (sometime also referred to as organizations, but this has nothing to do with the Exchange organization) in your Exchange organization you may want to organize or split up the Address List.
In the previous part of this guide we looked at gaining a list of PST files and machines. In this, the final part of this series, we will look at how to import these into Exchange 2010.
