Have you ever had a period of time go by that you were so into your work that you can’t really remember what’s been going on?  That’s where I’ve been lately.  I’m going to attempt to recap some of that stuff here.

We had a training day for our Service Programming teams (video, worship, audio, etc.) this past Sunday.  I had the chance to sit down and talk to our control room volunteers in a non-production setting.  Our video volunteers are AWESOME.  I love being able to work with them and watch them get better at what they do.  Just a few months ago, we had no video people besides myself.  God has blessed us IMMENSELY with a complete control room staff, camera operators, editors for our offline stuff.  It’s been awesome to see His hand at work through everything. 

On Monday we started a trial run on Service Desk Plus.  I must say, I am really impressed with the software thus far.  It’s a huge step up from what we’ve been working on to this point.  We’re going to demo the software for 2 weeks and then make a decision on it.  So far, it looks like a win to me, but we’ll see..

Tuesday and Wednesday, along with messing with Service Desk, I’ve been tinkering with SSL Explorer.  This is something I tried out earlier this year when we were looking for a VPN solution.  It got moved to the back burner to make room for other things, and because at the time we really didn’t have the bandwidth to support it.  I installed it on one of our servers and got it connected to Active Directory.  Once everything is tuned in, K and I will start training on it.  We’ve had some users asking about it (we sent out a poll to guage how much VPN would be used if we installed it), so I’m pretty anxious to get it cranked up so those same users can take it for a test drive.  Much thanks to Andrew Mitry for talking me through what I really needed and helping us save some ca$h.

Tomorrow I was planning on simply getting ready for the simulcast and prepping for the weekend.  Late this afternoon though, Danny’s laptop began giving him fits, so it looks like I’ll be hitting that up first thing tomorrow morning.