I was still traveling back to Oregon on Monday, so work didn’t start back up until Tuesday. Needless to say, there was a lot of catch-up work to do. This was compounded by the fact that our other IT worker was traveling to Utah in order to train new customers to use FSI software. This left lots of little IT issues, such as switching SMTP addresses on the Exchange server.

In more exciting news, I finished formatting and installing Windows Server 2003 on the new Dell Xeon box. This led to the larger task of mapping out the network architecture. My Computer & Network Security class is definitely being used, as I have to use MS Visio to diagram our local network. There are quite a few servers, hubs and switches, so its definitely a necessary task. The diagram will be even more helpful should the company move locations, a likely event in the near future.

Until Friday, when our main IT guy gets back, I’ll be doing miscellaneous IT tasks. I was reminded of my paper route when I had to package up CDs and upgrade documents to ship out to customers. FSI just came out with a new software release and customers have to get the upgrade, along with instructions for installation depending on their current release version. For internal uses, a little database is going to be set up with all of this information, replacing the MS Excel spreadsheet that holds data about customer’s current version and ship date.

Its back to the grind for now.