I said I want to make it to 175 posts (from 148 posts). I have been thinking (for at least 5 minutes) that one way to do that is to write about some of the things that I want to work on. Then I could share my progress, as well as the lessons learned from each phase of each goal. To get me started I wanted to write a list of goals. Then I thought about it and decided I was too non-committal to call them goals. I think “interests” is a safer term to use. So here are some of the things I am interested in working on this year:
- Windows Server 2016
- Deployment methods
- Test environment
- Useful features list
- System Center
- Operations Manager
- Management pack tuning
- Automated issue resolution
- Service monitoring
- Service definitions
- Virtual Machine Manager
- Update Rollup 6 (already in progress, so a pretty easy one I think)
- Azure management
- Configuration Manager
- Use PowerBI to examine the data
- Report on desktop update status and health
- Azure Stack
- Deploy it
- Use it
- Roadmap
- Work with my team (and others) to roadmap our services
- Communicate the roadmap
- Communication
- Communicate our status page
- Build some automation into the status page
- Management
- Be a better manager
- Read more
- Listen more
- Talk less
- Be positive
I am sure that I will have more things that I am interested in doing. I am sure that a lot of the items on this list will not be accomplished. They all need some definition. Maybe I will update this page with links to future posts on how I am doing with all of this. Maybe…