Who am I, What is this?
You know, some people seem to find it so easy to talk about themselves. I don't, I never know what to say or how to say it without sounding too vain, to be honest, talking about myself sounds vain to me so it just makes it so much harder.
Anyway, So who am I? well my name is Johan Dreyer and I am a systems engineer working in Dubai for one of the larger solution providers in the country - Seven Seas Computers. I have been working in the Microsoft Support / Solution Provider field for about 7 years now, concentrating on design, implementation and support MS Windows server and Exchange server systems.
So what's this all about then?
Well in my time of working in the field, I have been lucky enough to learn a few things here and there about how to deploy and maintain the environments I support. I have also been lucky enough to work with a great many people who work in the same field and somehow, never seem to have the level of knowledge required to complete the task at hand both correctly and professionally.
The point of this blog, the website I'm working on and any future developments stemming from the SortedIT.net domain will be aimed at easily making some basic knowledge available to everyone out there so they could better understand the concepts, technology and systems they are working with.
The way I see it, this will reduce the amount of work load on me, increase the productivity of other's and keep the customer happy since having their systems deployed correctly from the start translates to less problems and minimized downtime in the future - its a win, win situation out there in the end.
Now I want everyone out there to know, I do not consider myself an expert on the topics covered on this blog, simply knowledgeable, I am not MCSE certified, and have never been, but hopefully will get around to completing it this year just for kicks.
I am simply an engineer who has worked extensively with the technologies I cover, done more than 500 MS Windows and Exchange server deployments in my time and gained some knowledge through that which I now wish to share.
My plan is to sugar coat all the lessons I have to pass on with analogies which relate to our everyday life and in doing so make it more fun, less technical and easier to understand.
Finally, I am only human and as such, could just possibly have the wrong information or make mistakes at times. If you feel any of the information presented on this site to be incorrect, or better yet, have an easier analogy for something I'm trying to explain, please feel free to correct me/give me feed back on your thoughts. I may just ignore it, I may just use it (props to you), or I may just flaunt it about to make fun of you - just remember, no question is a bad question, no correction is bad correction, no comments are bad comments. We are all here to learn, after all its the point of sharing information with one another.
Oh yeah, one last thing - those who choose to knock me about spelling and grammar - BEWARE! I quite frankly dont have the time, patience nor concern for these things and if just 60% of the world can understand what I am trying to say then why should I care about you?
Anyway, So who am I? well my name is Johan Dreyer and I am a systems engineer working in Dubai for one of the larger solution providers in the country - Seven Seas Computers. I have been working in the Microsoft Support / Solution Provider field for about 7 years now, concentrating on design, implementation and support MS Windows server and Exchange server systems.
So what's this all about then?
Well in my time of working in the field, I have been lucky enough to learn a few things here and there about how to deploy and maintain the environments I support. I have also been lucky enough to work with a great many people who work in the same field and somehow, never seem to have the level of knowledge required to complete the task at hand both correctly and professionally.
The point of this blog, the website I'm working on and any future developments stemming from the SortedIT.net domain will be aimed at easily making some basic knowledge available to everyone out there so they could better understand the concepts, technology and systems they are working with.
The way I see it, this will reduce the amount of work load on me, increase the productivity of other's and keep the customer happy since having their systems deployed correctly from the start translates to less problems and minimized downtime in the future - its a win, win situation out there in the end.
Now I want everyone out there to know, I do not consider myself an expert on the topics covered on this blog, simply knowledgeable, I am not MCSE certified, and have never been, but hopefully will get around to completing it this year just for kicks.
I am simply an engineer who has worked extensively with the technologies I cover, done more than 500 MS Windows and Exchange server deployments in my time and gained some knowledge through that which I now wish to share.
My plan is to sugar coat all the lessons I have to pass on with analogies which relate to our everyday life and in doing so make it more fun, less technical and easier to understand.
Finally, I am only human and as such, could just possibly have the wrong information or make mistakes at times. If you feel any of the information presented on this site to be incorrect, or better yet, have an easier analogy for something I'm trying to explain, please feel free to correct me/give me feed back on your thoughts. I may just ignore it, I may just use it (props to you), or I may just flaunt it about to make fun of you - just remember, no question is a bad question, no correction is bad correction, no comments are bad comments. We are all here to learn, after all its the point of sharing information with one another.
Oh yeah, one last thing - those who choose to knock me about spelling and grammar - BEWARE! I quite frankly dont have the time, patience nor concern for these things and if just 60% of the world can understand what I am trying to say then why should I care about you?
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