Let’s get the community going
Posted by Jeremy D. Pavleck on July 14th, 2008
Granted, as SCOM people we already have a lot of places available to us. There’s the newsgroups, SystemCenterForum.Org, MOMCommunity.Com, the MS community, MyITForum, FAQShop, and the whole army of bloggers - but I can’t find somewhere I can’t get live help, bounce ideas off of people, etc. Sure, I have friends on various IM programs that do the same thing, but they aren’t always around and I’d hate to bother them if I don’t have to.
I want one. From hanging out in a PowerShell chat room I’ve learned so much more, and so much faster, then I would have reading books and going through tutorials.
So I’ve setup an IRC chat room on the FreeNode network. Why FreeNode? Well, the PowerShell guys hang out there, so we might as well hang out there too. So if you’re familiar with IRC, connect to chat.freenode.net and /join channel #scom. Not familiar with it? Then use the web based chat I’ve setup (And will eventually register) or read the ’short’ IRC primer.
Hope to see you there, as I’m fairly lonely in the channel all by myself!
July 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
How about the email lists? Get almost instantaneous answers, and you get to manage the information in your inbox instead of yet another separate location…
http://www.myitforum.com/lists/
July 15th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Ah, brilliant Rod - I had completely forgotten about the mailing lists - in fact, I had no idea they were going strong. Very glad to see it though, I’ve gone and subscribed.