Network Admin Forums

clade · 18 Jan 2010 at 10:34

Does anyone have any recommendations for network admin forums?

Im an Network administrator for a small company 30+ users and still quite new to the trade. Im trying to find a forum for IT professionals so I can get/give advice on such matters as anti virus/spyware, active directorys etc.

Banzai_Joe · 18 Jan 2010 at 10:36

www.petri.co.il
Been very helpful for me in the past.
For your job you may find a technet subscription useful, for software evals AND support.

Muel · 18 Jan 2010 at 11:13

techsupportforum.com is supposed to be really good.

rz30 · 18 Jan 2010 at 11:14

was going to suggets petri also, bit slow for replies but some experienced people there. Also yahoo answers has very quick replies and a ton of talent on there.

Dangerous · 18 Jan 2010 at 11:31

http://www.experts-exchange.com/

Is handy

Sp00n · 18 Jan 2010 at 11:51

Petri and Experts Exchange are both excellent forums for enterprise level support.

Dist · 18 Jan 2010 at 15:35

Dangerous said:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/

Is handy

Good thing they added the - in the domain, I remember there used to be a website without the -, not sure if it was the same company.

Anyway, depending on how technical you need help, I've found OcUK to be really helpful (although I havn't had to ask anything more technical than CCNA level questions).

s0ck · 18 Jan 2010 at 17:41

Dangerous said:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/

Is handy

Qu3 · 19 Jan 2010 at 14:00

experts-exchange it good, just scroll to the bottom of the page...

K.C. Leblanc · 19 Jan 2010 at 14:25

Expertsexchange and Petri are both good.

Edugeek.net might well also be worth a look (It's aimed at education but some of the stuff will still be relevent).

Banzai_Joe · 19 Jan 2010 at 14:52

Qu3 said:
experts-exchange it good, just scroll to the bottom of the page...

Lol, this ^^^

It's always high on google search when you look for teccy advice. Took me ages to cotton on that some answers are at the bottom of the page. Always thought you had to subscribe to see even one answer. :rolleyes:

tbz_ck · 21 Jan 2010 at 14:15

I'd recommend Spiceworks. Not only is the app (for monitoring and reporting on your network) good, free and open source the community is brilliant for IT pro's in small to mid size businesses.

www.spiceworks.com

paradigm · 21 Jan 2010 at 14:43

Another one I have found invaluable over the years is www.msexchange.org, of course this is only of any use for environments which utilise Exchange Server.

rz30 · 21 Jan 2010 at 14:47

http://www.smallbizserver.net/ for SBS!