First Technet Blog

This being my first blog entry on Technet I'm starting slow.

My background is "I'm a PC and I've been a PC for most of my life". How's that for an advertising slogan ???

I joined the industry in 1986 and focused entirely on the then-emerging area of personal computing. Prior to that I obtained a degree in Business Administration / Management Information Systems from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo CA. Prior to that I wasn't much interested in computers and I was never great at math or science.

In the first seven years of my career I was doing PC and LAN systems administration, got trained up to speed on Novell Netware, and did software development in dBase III, Foxbase/Foxpro, Clipper and C. Around the early 90s something called "client/server" started developing and I was able to write a few applications on PowerBuilder. Also in the early 90s Microsoft emerged as the overwhelming leader in PC software and so that was the force I wanted to align with. In 1993 I interviewed with Microsoft Consulting Services in the Los Angeles (Santa Monica) office, was hired as a Consultant, and have been here now for 15 years.

In my career at MCS I have progressed thru software development on Visual Basic and SQL Server, got into Windows NT networking and domain deployments, from there I got into Exchange Server 4.0, from there I got into Active Directory design and deployment, and from there I became a senior architect focused on Identity and Access management. It all ties together from my first project for MCS where I wrote an identity management system for a customer, we had an Access database, a VB front end, and did user account management in LAN Manager.

In future posts I'll be talking about alot of the interesting scenarios demanded by today's enterprise customers in the areas of Security, Identity and Access Management.

Signed,

Glenn Walton