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.
My email check on Jan 1st 2009 resulted in quite a surprise, with an email confirming that I am now an ... MVP!
Dear Rob Marshall,Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.
So I'm an MVP in Configuration Manager. Awesome!
This award means a lot to me. Thank you very much Microsoft. And thanks to all those involved in getting me noticed, and to those that generally kept my spirits up, and helped me over 2008 both technically and personally. I've had some amazing fun times with SMS and ConfigMgr in the 5 or so years I've been full on with the products, and hope to do so for many a year to come!
My first action as an MVP is to give you all a day off! How incredibly nice is that of me?!?!
Here's my MVP Profile, along with the directory of all 37 (to date) Configuration Manager MVP's around the Globe
Congrats Rob!
Congratulations mate !
I know I said congratulations when we met up on Friday night but here's a virtual one to follow it up ;-)
So folks that's TWO ConfigMgr MVPs in WMUG now (although we're not exclusively here to serve WMUG but the WHOLE MS ConfigMgr/ SMS community ;-) so TWICE the reason to sign up and come along to our meetings/ get involved.
Congratulations & well done Rob!
Thanks all!