Technical Skills

Specialist Skills

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007, 2012 and Current Branch (1511+)

  • Management of all features within SCCM for over 7,500 workstations
  • Design and installation of SCCM 2012 R2
  • Consolidated & migrated 3x SCCM 2007 environments into 1x SCCM 2012 R2 environment
  • OS Deployment, Software Deployment, Updates, Compliance, Inventory (hardware and software) etc.
  • I consider my SQL report writing skills to be high

Workstation Deployment (Windows 7 and 10)

  • Created the task sequence and procedure for the roll-out of Windows 7 to over 3,500 workstations
  • Wrote the guides for the deployment team
  • Used User State Migration (USMT)
  • Started to learn about Windows 10 deployment and done deployments in my Lab environment

Active Directory Forest and Domain management and administration

  • One of four domain admins supporting the primary AD Forest and Domains
  • Group Policy creation and management
  • DNS and WINS management
  • Delegated rights to the Organisational Units and objects

Scripting

  • Mainly in PowerShell
  • VBScript
  • Batch (.bat / .cmd)
  • AutoIT

SQL Server management and report writing

  • Responsible for the creation of dozens of reports for various levels of management
  • Understanding and reporting across multiple datasources

Least Privilege User Rights

  • Inventoried Admin Rights using SCCM Hardware Inventory
  • Created Reports to show unauthorised Admin Rights
  • Setup Event Forwarding with a custom subscription / XML to identify who delegated admin rights
  • Setup Avecto Privilege Guard to elevate problematic applications and to improve user satisfaction

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (SCOrch) 2007 and 2012

  • Created many runbooks to remove documented procedures
    • Creation of AD objects
    • Changes in SCCM (collections or deployments)
    • Capture information from users and create support tickets
    • Make changes in SQL databases
  • Supported runbooks when there is a problem

Other Skills

Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack (MDOP) – App-V / MBAM / AGPM

Desktop productivity suite configuration and deployment knowledge – Office 2010, 2013 or Office 365 ProPlus

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)

Software Deployment

EMS / Enterprise Mobility Suite & Microsoft Intune

Azure

VMware ESX

WSUS and patch management

File, print, DHCP, DNS and WINS management

Network Administration

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)