About

For new comers who haven’t read my stuff before, welcome. I am a technology and gadget addict with a 20+ year background in computers and networking. I have been developing in VB.NET officially for about 5 years and dabbled in automation languages (Perl, PHP, vbscript, etc.) previous to that. I have served several tours of duty on various help desks and even a telephone support role for a PC Manufacturer. I am now the network manager for a local school district and enjoying the change of pace from technical to managerial. I have several articles published with Novel Cool Solutions and love to write technical reviews and walkthroughs. I am an avid Linux user for solutions like MythTV, Asterisk and other appliance type solutions. I am also experienced in Windows since 3.11 and have 3 Windows 2003 Servers as well. I run hosted Exchange 2003 for a few clients as well as web sites. For the last several years I have been the director of product development for an unstructured text analytics start-up. After losing funding in that venture I was filling the days doing private consulting on a variety of support and implementation roles as well as some custom data portal development in the telecom damage recovery area for data collection. I also did several SharePoint implementations and continue to support the efforts of the start-up.

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4 comments

  1. Farhan Faiz says:

    Hi Jim,

    I landed on your blog by:

    Unable to get global configuration data.

    One question and one comment.

    Question: If i rerun Configuration Wizard, will anything break. Issue is that Wizard is specifying a new port for CA. No backup of server is possble as we are running other web servers on it as well.

    Comment: Your post on iPhone is great. I wish my wife see this post as well :)

  2. Jim Shank says:

    Thanks for your comment, I hope she enjoys it as well.
    Regarding your question about rerunning the configuration wizard, yes, you will want to do that and then the rest of the article will help you through errors that come up as a result.

  3. LAM says:

    By any slim chance, Jim Shank, did you ever live in Westchester County for a few months? I recall a tall thin fella with your name who made me laff a lot.

  4. Jim Shank says:

    I never lived in Westchester County but good to know there is another, thinner Jim Shank out there making people laugh.

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