Greetings!

We're looking for a few people to present at an upcoming "Back to Basics" CMNIT event. The advanced and popular topics are always fun to throw together, but at times we tend to forget some of the most important aspects of system administration--the basics! We're looking for a few folks to toss together a quick (15 - 30 minute) presentation or two that outlines best practice, tips and tricks, and personal experience in day-to-day system administration. Heck, even if you can't stand power point presentations and just want to bring up a round-table good discussion, that works too.

We're not looking for experts! (Although, if you happen to be a subject mater expert... by all means!) An interest in sharing your personal experiences and generating some good discussion is all that's required.

Here's a few ideas of topics to get you started:

- Basic Powershell cmdlets
- Basic server role recommendations (File Server, Domain Controller, SQL, etc...)
- Managing Active Directory Groups
- Managing Shared Folders
- Managing servers remotely via Computer Manager, SQL Management Studio, WMI, Powershell, etc...
- Securely working with segmented credentials (elevated vs. user level privileges)
- Text parsing/manipulation with Excel/Word
- Working with NTFS Access Control Lists
- Software you've found to be overly helpful
- Anything you find helpful to your day-to-day system management.

Please contact me if you're interested in presenting.

Thanks again everyone!

CL