Full circle

After my last post back in March, my role at work changed and rather than focusing on reactive, break/fix MOSS issues, I was focused heavily in deploying MOSS from scratch in several environments. However, as of Monday I will be taking on a new role which will incorporate both the break/fix and deployments of MOSS and will begin posting more frequently.

If you are still on the fence on whether to blog or not, I definitely recommend giving it a shot. At first it was very painful for me to get into a “blogging” mindset and I can’t say that I am anywhere close to obtaining one in the near future. However, as I look back at this blog and the posts that I made, it was definitely worth it for the following reasons:

1. It helped me to organize my thoughts, document it and share it with others easily.

2. It provided a me a forum where I could synergize my two passions: problem solving and helping people.

3. It forced me to become more knowledgeable on all of the different technologies incorporated in MOSS (i.e. SQL, OS, Active Directory, IIS, Networking, etc…).

As I prepare for my new role on Monday, I found it interesting to see that the first thing that I will be focusing on is optimizing performance for several of our company’s business critical MOSS portals. Because I took the time to blog earlier this year, I feel like I have now gone full circle as it is the first place I am going to look to get ramped up on best practices.

wayne