New stuff at work Day

Day One

We handed out a bunch of new machines this morning. People seemed happy to get them.  That was the first hurdle. We are fielding phone calls for now getting people online. Hopefully, people attend their training and at least try to get up and running soon. Honestly, gathering the old equipment is going to be more of a chore than handing out new stuff.

The new laptops have lights  This is far more cool than I thought it would be.

One of the big things today was moving printers that had already been moved and rerunning old cables. I also needed to run several new cables for people. The place i shopping. It is exciting. People are turning up on the system in droves. Some folks are already switching..

Just after lunch, we had to setup a conference room with power and wired network for 18 laptops. Our wifi has issues so we didn’t want to rely on it. We had four, eight port switches feeding 20 connections. We had to allow for an observer and the person teaching the class. This toobk less than an hour because I had less than an hour to get it up and running. Last I heard, things were at least functioning. I didn’t hang around. One of the other IT folks was in the class to keep an eye on things.

the above paragraph will really test our setup. It will also get several people on the new system. Hopefully some momentum will build and the rinkles will be flattened out a bit by the end of today.

Day Two

Today there is a bunch more running of cables. People are indeed using their new systems. I’m noticing people coming up on the networks. This is very cool. We are getting old systems in and the replacement issues are starting to get filterd through the system. At some point soon, we will be over the hump.