new role

fredmoogie

hi all,

if all goes well, i am anticipating getting a new role in the near future. i will be the sole IT person at this small business, roughly 25 onsite and another 40-50 offsite at another location.

here are some topics i want to discuss w/ the IT director to have a better understanding and getting up to speed:

network topology
ipv6
voip
qos
nat
vpn
firewall/security/ACL
port security
whitelist/blacklist
desktop av
vlans
subnets
server OS
desktop OS
desktop apps
AD
GPO
applications
type of servers: web/applications/rdbms
knowledge base - internal/external
incidence tracking system
collaboration tools
email
SSO
routing/switching protocols
routers/switches model
inventory
backup/recovery
SAN
virtualization
mobile devices
IM
videoconferencing
availability/redundancy
snmp manager
training
best practices

can you think of any other topics that i may have missed?

thanks and i appreciate all your responses.

Tackle

That's quite a list. I think that should cover just about everything and if not you'll be alright once you have a general feel for how things are setup.