Re: Lists of Active Directory Consultants

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Herb Martin wrote:
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Joe Richards [MVP] wrote:
AD is incredibly easy???? Can't recall hearing that one before
except from SBS Admins where AD is basically a black box store.

Well Joe, it does get a lot easier when you take away replication,
have only one domain forests, all fsmos on a single server, and have
only 75 users or less. Still, I've see some Admins make a mess out
of even that environement.

No, those who really understand AD (Joe does) and DNS find AD
to be actually easy -- no more compliated than the actual business
and technical needs, and sometimes those can be simplified by those
who really know just a few basics of AD.

I've *no* doubt about Joe's depth of understanding, but I'd wager a pint
even he learns / discovers something new every so often. Otherwise, I'd
imagine he'd get boared and find something else to do.

People like Joe tend to learn something every day or more often, but
he likely learns nothing major about AD itself on most jobs, or every
often if the jobs are long running.

The point is not that there might be something esoteric about AD or
design but that the 95% case is really very easy IF you really know
95% of the details of AD and that 95% is really a pretty small set
of very logical facts.

Those people who think AD is hard, scare me.

Joe doesn't think AD is hard FOR HIM, and he didn't have to work
that much at it (I will bet) before he got REALLY GOOD even if he
has imiproved since then.

Sure there are complicated jobs but AD itself, and the DNS it depends
on is not that hard.

AD is incredibly easy if you really understand the basics of both it
and DNS.

Why? Because it is logical and the rules are not that complicated.

Most unsuccessful admins/designers don't KNOW the actual rules
but are working from near (or not so near) approximation they
learned from crummy books or other people who didn't really know
either.

The two worst I find are;
Those who think they understand it, but really don't.

Tyros are always a problem.

The "button pushers" - who know very little but aren't afraid to try
almost anything.

In production that is deadly -- in learning that is essential.


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