Learning New Stuff

Greetings to my blog readers!

The days are tending to shape up to be fairly excitable, as i mentioned on my previous post; i have a job offer for help desking and today i got a phone call from my soon to be Boss, inviting me into my future workplace in order to meet the team and see where I'll be working, so yeah, that's cool.

In the meantime however, i have begun reading an Active Directory book which i have VOWED (yes, I know its dramatic), to learn how to use/at least understand. You may find yourself asking why I have vowed to learn AD, the reason is simple.
In my many many many months of unemployment, I was of course job searching, and in the sort of jobs I was applying to, (help desk/1st line support), i found that among other requirements such as previous experience, AD was asked for. Well, having taken a purely academic route in life thus far, e.g. I went to high school > College > University, This left me in a conundrum, i needed these jobs to start my career in IT that would enable me to learn these things however, i needed to learn these things before an employer would even consider me.

Luckily, my new job is going to teach me these skills so that's bonus, though we may have to take a moment for a minor tirade on the job situation in the UK.
Employers, you ask for experience yet are not willing to provide it, if you all adopt this mentality then nobody gets employed or even the chance to become a worthy addition to your company because you are only allowing those with previous skill to get the jobs. Just something to think on!.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, AD. Well, as I'm learning about this delightful new concept, so too shall you my minions (just decided, my blog readers are now my minions  :) because I'm awesome and weird like that).
So first upping; What is Active Directory?
Well, AD is essentially a great big database that lets system administrators (or whoever!) control the information that is stored on it. On AD, the info stored on there is about user accounts, printer access, group policies (access rights to certain things), log in rules and all manner of other things.
As an example, AD lets the Sys Admin dictate that the users from Payroll need to change there passwords every 14 days to a brand new one for security purposes.

I've just realised how long this post is and we shall resume on a new post!

Toodles for now minions!