Simon Laing
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Head of Production Support, EU
England, United Kingdom
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Head of Production Support, EUMarqetaMar 2021 - Current (5 years 6 months)- Production Support ManagerMarqetaJan 2021 - Current (5 years 8 months)
- Production Support EngineerMarqetaJan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years 1 month)
- Senior Implementation EngineerRetailNextAug 2014 - Jan 2018 (3 years 6 months)
- Windows Server SpecialistUnify Business SolutionsNov 2011 - Jul 2014 (2 years 9 months)
- Systems AdministratorPebbleAug 2007 - Nov 2011 (4 years 4 months)
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- Newcastle UniversityNewcastle University
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- MMDT/WDS Deployment failure - a learning experience!Jul 2013 - Current (13 years 2 months)Entertainingly, with more time to prepare than the last Microsoft Deployment Toolkit outing, I was undone by budget machinery which lacked WinPE 4.0 drivers. A whole day (and a bit!) was wasted trying to track down network drivers (and testing alternates) before I gave up and looked at my options. Installing from scratch was unpalatable, so I pursued the MDT to media option. With a little bit of tweaking, it worked well, and installing 10GB isos from usb devices proved far from horrific. It's not ideal, but it can be done!
- MMDT/WDS DeploymentJun 2013 - Current (13 years 3 months)With prep time of 1 day I hit an essentially incommunicado (1meg DSL) brand new site with the VMWare server built and 4 virtual Windows 2012 servers hosted in its depths (including a fully stocked WSUS server, thank you 100Mb leased line!) Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update 1 was a dream to work with, and by the third day, the whole network was running sweetly, Windows 7 activated, updated and secured, Office running great and activated, and there was even time to accommodate the client's last minute demands for those items which definitely weren't in the spec! The job went better than I could have expected, which is fortunate, given the time constraints!