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Realtime Windows Server Opinion Question #3: What part of your IT job keeps you up at night the most? Virus attack? The email server? Bad employees?

As part of our bi-monthly Realtime Windows Server's "Help an Admin Out!" Contest, we'll be posting an opinion question every Wednesday for you to answer. Each answer also serves as an entry into our contest.

We welcome your comments on today's and every future opinion question!

For this week, our question is:

What part of your IT job keeps you up at night the most? Virus attack? The email server? Bad employees?

Submit your answer as a comment below. You will be prompted to submit your email address. We will use this to contact you if you win. For this contest period, we are offering up a free copy of VBSEdit, a great VBScript editing tool compliments of the guys over at www.vbsedit.com.

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I think it has to be the capacity planning, and futures. The capacity we can hanfle by second guessing the users and system required. But futures....

Which way do we go? Virtual? Thin-Client? Virtual Desktops? Windows? Linux?

Posted by: Stuart | August 17, 2007 2:12 AM

Funnily enough, this week it's been the UPS's on the servers. We've had thunderstorms all week and I'm on call. Everytime the ups's switch to battery backup they send out an alert to the oncall tech - unfortunately that's me. 3 nights this week I've been paged somewhere between 2 and 4am - oh, and I don't get paid to be on call either.

Posted by: Andy | August 22, 2007 9:40 AM

UPS and Power is always an issue. We also have the situation of the UPS alerting who ever is on call. But we have found a way of only paging us if the alert happen twice in a short space of time. The reason for this is our UPS fires up when the power drops, but then shutsdown again when the power drops. Two alerts for no reason.

Posted by: Stuart | August 23, 2007 3:23 AM

USERS!!! And calling support who call the on-call team for stupid questions!

Posted by: Stuart | August 23, 2007 3:24 AM

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Greg Shields, is an independent author, instructor, and IT consultant based in Denver, Colorado, and a co-founder of Concentrated Technology. With nearly 15 years of experience in information technology, Greg has developed extensive experience in systems administration, engineering, and architecture specializing in Microsoft systems management, remote application, and virtualization technologies. Greg is a Contributing Editor for Redmond Magazine, MCPmag.com, and Virtualization Review Magazine and is the author of five books, including Windows Server 2008:  What’s New / What’s Changed. Greg is also a highly sought-after instructor and speaker, speaking regularly at conferences like TechMentor Events, and producing computer-based training curriculum for CBT Nuggets.  Greg is a recipient of Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" award with a specialization in Windows Terminal Services.