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- 1.1 Building a Site from Scratch
- 1.2 Growing a Small Site
- 1.3 Going Global
- 1.4 Replacing Services
- 1.5 Moving a Data Center
- 1.6 Moving to/Opening a New Building
- 1.7 Handling a High Rate of Office Moves
- 1.8 Assessing a Site (Due Diligence)
- 1.9 Dealing with Mergers and Acquisitions
- 1.10 Coping with Frequent Machine Crashes
- 1.11 Surviving a Major Outage or Work Stoppage
- 1.12 What Tools Should Every SA Team Member Have?
- 1.13 Ensuring the Return of Tools
- 1.14 Why Document Systems and Procedures?
- 1.15 Why Document Policies?
- 1.16 Identifying the Fundamental Problems in the Environment
- 1.17 Getting More Money for Projects
- 1.18 Getting Projects Done
- 1.19 Keeping Customers Happy
- 1.20 Keeping Management Happy
- 1.21 Keeping SAs Happy
- 1.22 Keeping Systems from Being Too Slow
- 1.23 Coping with a Big Influx of Computers
- 1.24 Coping with a Big Influx of New Users
- 1.25 Coping with a Big Influx of New SAs
- 1.26 Handling a High SA Team Attrition Rate
- 1.27 Handling a High User-Base Attrition Rate
- 1.28 Being New to a Group
- 1.29 Being the New Manager of a Group
- 1.30 Looking for a New Job
- 1.31 Hiring Many New SAs Quickly
- 1.32 Increasing Total System Reliability
- 1.33 Decreasing Costs
- 1.34 Adding Features
- 1.35 Stopping the Hurt When Doing This
- 1.36 Building Customer Confidence
- 1.37 Building the Teams Self-Confidence
- 1.38 Improving the Teams Follow-Through
- 1.39 Handling an Unethical or Worrisome Request
- 1.40 My Dishwasher Leaves Spots on My Glasses
- 1.41 Protecting Your Job
- 1.42 Getting More Training
- 1.43 Setting Your Priorities
- 1.44 Getting All the Work Done
- 1.45 Avoiding Stress
- 1.46 What Should SAs Expect from Their Managers?
- 1.47 What Should SA Managers Expect from Their SAs?
- 1.48 What Should SA Managers Provide to Their Boss?
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
1.6 Moving to/Opening a New Building
- Four weeks or more in advance, get access to the new space to build the infrastructure.
- Use radios or walkie-talkies for communicating inside the building—Chapter 6 and Section 20.1.7.3.
- Use a personal digital assistant (PDA) or nonelectronic organizer—Section 32.1.2.
- Order WAN and Internet service provider (ISP) network connections 2–3 months in advance.
- Communicate to the powers that be that WAN and ISP connections will take months to order and must be done soon.
- Prewire the offices with network jacks during, not after, construction—Section 7.1.4.
- Work with a moving company that can help plan the move.
- Designate one person to keep and maintain a master list of everyone who is moving and his or her new office number, cubicle designation, or other location.
- Pick a day on which to freeze the master list. Give copies of the frozen list to the moving company, use the list for printing labels, and so on. If someone’s location is to be changed after this date, don’t try to chase down and update all the list copies that have been distributed. Move the person as the master list dictates, and schedule a second move for that person after the main move.
- Give each person a sheet of 12 labels preprinted with his or her name and new location for labeling boxes, bags, and personal computer (PC). (If you don’t want to do this, at least give people specific instructions as to what to write on each box so it reaches the right destination.)
- Give each person a plastic bag big enough for all the PC cables. Technical people can decable and reconnect their PCs on arrival; technicians can do so for nontechnical people.
- Always order more boxes than you think you’ll be moving.
- Don’t use cardboard boxes; instead, use plastic crates that can be reused.