Vmware ESX 4/5/6
- Provision virtual machines through vSphere, assign available resources and install operating systems. - Configure the various built in alarms for monitoring, configure alarm thresholds and email settings. - Understand the use and purpose of snapshots, creating and removing snapshots in vSphere and through command line.
- Exporting virtual machines using vSphere to OVF template. - Importing virtual machines using vSphere from OVF template. - Datastore types and usage including local attached, SAN and iSCSI. - Storage provisioning types and limitations, thin vs thick.
- Configuring vCenter for managing multiple ESX servers.
- Configuring virtual switches and port groups including assigning multiple virtual switches to a virtual machine.
Active Directory
- User, group, and computer account management in active directory on a domain controller. - User and group access and permissions.
DHCP
- Adding and configuring scopes with domain, dns, gateway, pxe options and address reservations.
DNS
- Configure and mange internal and external DNS servers on Windows Server and Linux. - Create and manage forward and reverse lookup zones.
- Create and manage DNS records including A, MX, Cname, and TXT records.
RDP
- Familiar with remote server managing through RDP.
Group Policy
- Assigning network shares and login scripts via group policy. - Creating policies based on operating system type and WMI.
Login Scripts
Exchange 2010
- Use the Exchange management console and shell for Exchange server management.
- Exchange server configuration and management of Outlook Web Access, Outlook Anywhere, IMAP, POP, SMTP, and Active Sync.
- Managing Exchange database and log file storage locations. - Configuring Exchange transports and send connectors. - Exchange configuration with multiple accepted domains. - User mailbox management with active directory integration.
- SSL certificate management including adding and renewing certificates, assigning services to SSL certificates.
Outlook 2013
- Configuration for Exchange mailboxes and as well as multiple mailboxes per user. - Configuration with Outlook Anywhere for remote clients.
- Configuration with Business Contact Manager.
Symantec Mail Security for Exchange
- Configuring quarantine and manage quarantined items, release falsely quarantined items. - White listing email addresses and domains to bypass filtering.
- Add custom filtering rules based on content or subject.
Symantec Endpoint Protection
- Managing and configuring company groups and protection policies. - Use the Endpoint manager to deploy packages to clients remotely.
Symantec Backup Exec 2012
- Configure and manage backup jobs for Windows and Vmware servers including monitoring backup job statuses.
- Deploy and update remote backup agents on Windows servers.
- Configure and manage local and remote storage media for backup jobs.
- Familiar with full, incremental, differential, granular, and deduplication backup practices for file based backup and image based backup.
- Familiar with Backup Exec’s method of backing up Vmware virtual machine using vStorage api for performing snapshots.
- Perform disaster recovery scenario testing.
IIS 7/8
- Understand site bindings with IP addressed and SSL certificates. - Adding and renewing site SSL certificates in IIS.
- Familiar with SNI (Server Name Indication) in IIS8.
- Familiar with the IIS URL Rewrite module and using rewrite rules to rewrite URLs. - Familiar with the format and sections of IIS web.config files for manual editing. - Familiar with robots.txt and sitemap.xml file formats for creation and editing.
FTP
- Create and manage virtual FTP directories and access permissions. - Create and manage user access.
MSSQL
- Familiar with MSSQL manager studio and logging into database management with database and Windows authentications.
- Able to backing up and restoring a database.
- Able to modify database security and user permission.
MySQL
- Able to perform a MySQL database query through command line in order to display table values. - Able to add and remove table values from a database through command line.
- Able to add users and assign database permissions for read or read/modify through command line. - Able to dump a database to a file through command line.
- Able to import a database from a dumped SQL file through the command line. - Able to script basic MySQL commands for automating tasks.
Windows Deployment Services
- Configuring the server for PXE booting images based on architecture (x86, x64, UEFI). - Able to perform boot image functions such as adding, replacing, and disabling images. - About to mount images to perform driver injections and maintenance.
- Configure WDS to use TFTP and DHCP with PXE booting.
Deployment Workbench
- Import operating systems into deployment workbench from source disks. - Create and configure operating system install tasks for deployment.
- Maintain a repository of Windows update packages for multiple versions of Windows operating systems for injection.
- Maintain a repository of hardware drivers for multiple platforms for injection.
- Able to find silent install switches for exe and msi installer packages to use in unattended software installations.
Rsync
Sonicwall
- Familiar with DMZ configurations and implementation. - Familiar with vLan configurations and implementation. - Familiar with Portshield groups and aggregation.
- Create and use custom address objects and object groups for use in NAT and firewall tables. - Able to configure NAT and Firewall polices based on network zones and address objects. - Understand network zones such as LAN, WAN, DMZ, and WLAN.
- Understand network zone security types such as Public, Trusted, and Untrusted. - Familiar with application control and blocking rules.
- Familiar with content filtering and blocking rules.
- Familiar with RBL blocking and the advantages/disadvantages of RBLs. - Familiar with enterprise wireless configurations.
- Familiar with Sonicwall Single Sign On (SSO) authentication.
- Familiar with LDAP integration for user control and methods of authentication such as WMI, NETAPI, and DC Security Log.
- Configuring a Sonicwall VPN, users, and the Sonicwall VPN client.
PHP 5
- Read values from a MySQL database and display the values on web pages. - Use sessions to store variable data for use in forms and HTTP links. - Use includes to inject code into pages.
- Use PHP to form HTTP links with variable data.
Deployment
- Familiar with BIOS updating and configuration such as sata/raid, pxe boot and boot order. - Able to perform network booting on multiple platforms.
- Familiar with unattended Windows installations and xml answer files.
- Able to install Windows from disks including all manufacturer drivers and Windows updates. - Familiar with Windows Sysprep and its uses.
- Familiar with batch files and its uses for automating Windows tasks and unattended application installation.
- Able to perform firmware updating on server hardware such as motherboards, raid controllers, and hot swap backplanes through DOS and EFI shells.
- Able to configure and manage Raid arrays on controller cards including building, rebuilding, verifying, and hot spares.
- Familiar with BMC logs and how to retrieve and read them.
Linux
Troubleshooting
- Able to test for defective hard drives using scanning tools and smart attribute reader. - Able to test for defective memory using memtest software.
- Use Windows debugging tools to decode blue screen dump files to determine cause. - Familiar with stress testing software.
- Familiar with Windows event viewer.
- Able to rebuild and recover Raid arrays after hard drive failures. - Boot pre-configured PE environments from network or USB.
System Builds
- Able to build systems in a consistent manner with respect to component location and wiring. - Verify parts for systems match work order exactly.
- Familiar with ESD.
Misc
- Familiar with HTML and validation. - Familiar with CSS.
- Able to configure network printers and other peripherals.
- Familiar with imaging software such as Norton Ghost and Acronis.
- Able to configure and use virtual machines in Virtualbox as well as exporting and importing virtual machines.
- Familiar with full disk and partition encryption software such as truecrypt and bit locker and its uses. - Familiar with Google webmaster tools and analytics for website health monitoring.
