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.
Over on the InfoWorld website (Galen Gruman), they have put together a bunch of predictions, on how Microsoft will fair over the next decade. Made for some fun, interesting, but sometimes gloomy reading, check it out
Five futures, from terrible to greatGiven the state of Microsoft and the clear trends emerging, InfoWorld has envisioned five futures for Microsoft, from worst to best, from the vantage point of 2018. See which you agree with:
The "Borvell" scenarioThe "slow decline" scenarioThe "streaming" scenarioThe "Oort services" scenarioThe "Gates was right" scenario
"Gates was right" scenario, had me in stitches ... gates occassionally finishing with ". Idiots", classic!