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We finished up the final day of Ministry Tech yesterday and it was great.  I made some great new connections, I learned new things, and as always feel re-energized. During the conference I had the pleasure of moderating one of the roundtable sessions. Session 2 to be exact. I will post more on the conference later as I go over the notes that I took. For now I am just posting on this session.
These are the notes I grabbed on the discussion for those who wish to comeback and look over our discussion.

Roundtable Session #2 Notes:

Topics
Storage
VLANS – Whats enough how to start etc…
IPv6 – Does it really exist?
2008 Server & Published Apps
Vista & UAC
Windows 7
Internal Wikis/Collaboration
Web based/Hosted Apps
Password Management
Documentation – If you get hit by a bus

Discussion

VLANS
-Dont VLAN without a PLAN
-VLANS behave differently so TEST before rollout
-Strategize Broadcast domains
-EBuford – VLANS:’Theres trouble to be had’
-Older hardware may ‘tag’ traffic differently
-If you use Linksys – We will beat you
-You WILL be accountable for security
-Whats the Entry Point?
-Hub and spoke for VLAN Routing
-Unused ports go into ‘Public’ zone
-VOIP VLAN voice traffic on Same switches
-VOIP does not need a GigPOE switch
-Ruckus -> Wireless solution that provides different access levels(ruckuswireless.com)

IPv6
-Turn it off
-Slows Name Resolution
-Not anytime soon

2008 Server
-What are the benefits?
-Some just member servers some DC’s

Exchange 2010

-It will be possible to upgrade from 2003 to 2010
-Great improvements for Mac users
-Entourage as an apple app would be ‘iSuck’
-Probably don’t want to run the current beta in production

Vista & UAC
-Good hardware and lots of ram
-Very stable
-No problems
-Maybe wait for Windows 7

Windows 7

-Lots of improvements with UI
-Better performance
-RC being released May 5
-Try it

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I had an interesting string of thoughts today during some of the talks here at MinistryTech. It was a little seed that was planted during Tony Morgan’s presentation.

Tony’s presentation went over the “10 Reasons Why Techies Scare” him. His number 6 reason was that techies don’t document processes. His example involved the concept of ‘the techie before’ and how we aren’t going to be where we are forever, for whatever reason. And we all have stories of knowledge/processes/documentation that left with the techie before us. So what exactly are we leaving behind?

I think that in order to do the best for the ministries we support, the churches we work in, and the God we live for, we must strive to leave a legacy.

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