I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
Sometimes you're reminded just how quickly time flows past.
Today, I signed on the dotted line for an Alfa 159, 1.9 Lusso (not the 2.2 guzzler) Diesel. Very similiar to the one I blogged about over one year ago, but never got around to getting, mostly due to worry about the thing breaking down, am feeling braver now.
I felt that over the last year or two i'd worked my back end off trying to keeping a flotila of companies SMS\ConfigMgr hierarchies all green and healthy, that, well, I deserved a little bit of treat. Am picking the car up on Saturday, no doubt i'll only come back home to eat then i'll be back on the road cruising and soaking it up all before I head back to my job on Monday.
Am feeling the strain at the place i'm contracted too lately, so much commuting it all comes to an unhealthy 12 hours a day, and that deserves a special individual blog posting to explain! Which I will get around too posting when i've finished the contract mid-november. It'll make for a great read i'm sure!
Nice one - I remember hiring the same as my 40th birthday treat last year after you blogged about it.
Driving down the motorways in Portugal was a sheer delight. Maybe one day I'll own one as well :-(
Looking forward to you taking me for a spin ;-)