Today I rented a car and drove to Saul Sainte Marie. I'm staying at a travel lodge for the next 3 days. I noticed a network plug in my wall so plugged it into my laptop to see what I can do with it. It lets me on the Internet without paying! This is great, it's the first time I've ever used Internet from a hotel room. I know it's nothing new, some people have been using it for years. I wonder if it comes with the room, or if they somehow detect me using it and add a $10 charge to my bill? I guess we'll find out when I check out.

So what's on the agenda? There's a long story to tell about how their network and servers were set up before I took on remote network administration. I won't go into details, but basically it was poorly designed and configured. I knew what I wanted to do with the network since June but needed to buy a few licenses first. It took until now to get them. So now I'm replacing their old file/print server & domain controller (1 computer) with another computer with a much larger drive, that's faster, has a 40 GB tape drive attached and has 25 client access licenses. I have to copy the user accounts over and all their home directories, and other shares on the computer. Have to set up network printers, go around to each workstation and join the new domain, clean worms, replace Outlook with a different email client, and my favorite part: roll out Crescendo!

Yes it's true, I'll be giving the two departments that will use Crescendo the most a copy of the software and will be training them on it. They will be able to play with it for a few days and come up with a list of suggestions and/or tweaks they want made. I'll go back to IJW and will do that work, then we'll go live. I'm so excited, I've been waiting a long time for this. I've been working days, nights and weekends for the past month trying to get things ready. I hope they like it :| This program replaces 4 separate programs and does everything in one big system. It can work offline and synchronize with the server later, and has an extensive custom reporting system (lets them design their own reports)