Albert Tanutama

Finally I could catch up with this blog again – this time, as newly achieved Microsoft Certified Professional

Two months ago – after attending Bill Gates Live! event – I signed up for Microsoft certification course. I decided to take MCSA/E track to understand better how to design, implement and manage information infrastructure in an organization. While it seems totally different area from what I’ve been doing for the past four years – the course in broader sense will complement skills required as Information Professional.

Through this course, I was exposed to the ‘hidden world’ of system administrators, who despite obscure are arguably one of the most powerful groups in the organization. They establish the fundamental information infrastructure to ensure everyone in the organization could smoothly communicate, share expertise, collaborate. They are responsible and will fight for security, reliability and robustness (flexibility is optional). It is essential therefore that in today’s information age, their are playing a bigger role than being supporting personnel who troubleshoot computer and network issues (viruses, crashes, corrupted data, etc). Together with software developers, they will deal with bigger, unstructured and fragmented information to create seamless, global and mobile organization. This is an interesting challenge that requires multidisciplinary perspective which I’m currently trying to establish.

Meanwhile, I managed to tackle the first challenge of Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2003, which I’d like to dedicate to you who support me with prayer, time and space to study. Three more to go – yay!

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