Hard to believe its been two years
As I was looking at my blog today…. I noticed my first blog post was Sept of 2007. Hard to believe I have been blogging about OpsMgr for two years now. Even harder to believe (to me) is that I have been working at Microsoft for nearly 3 and a half years now. In this Company… time literally flies. I still sometimes feel like I am the new guy here…. like I just started. I am still cutting my baby teeth.
On blogging…. I never thought I would ever blog. I saw all the good SCOM blogs out there, and thought…. what do I possibly have to write about? I also used to see blogging in general as narcissistic. Sort of a “hey look at me!” approach to the industry or technology. I was wrong on that one. Technical blogs add a new dimension to the products we use, and the community that uses them. It helps us share information and neat ideas faster and simpler than we ever could before. It is also very good self-promotion for those whom make their living as consultants.
How I started: What happened was… I had this big list of SQL queries, that I used for MOM 2005. I used to host them on a personal website…. so that anytime I was onsite with a customer – we could pull them up, copy, and paste them, depending on what we were working on. I HATED writing SQL statements back then, because I was terrible at it….. so I cheated. I kept them all in a big notepad document, that I would upload to my website from time to time. As I shared my list of queries (mostly stolen or collected from hundreds of sources) I decided to start a MS blog – and post those queries there. My peers were always using them – so why not post them publicly? And the rest just took on a life of its own.
When OpsMgr 2007 hit RTM…. the need for real world examples and guidance was staggering. What a challenging product to learn from scratch. So from that point on, anytime I learned something from working with a customer that I thought would be valuable…. up on the blog it went.
I appreciate all the feedback I have gotten from you all, and your topics, issues, and questions. I enjoy blogging more than I ever thought I would… and I plan on continuing every chance I get.
