Configuration Management
In 2010, I was hired for a Department of Defense (DoD) contract to help deploy the technical assets for the newly formed Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) with Lt. General Klotz in command. The AFGSC mission was to manage the U.S. Air Force (USAF) portion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. With a newly formed team of 10, the decision was made to split up the team based on our strengths, and I ended up in the lab with someone who was to become one of my very best friends, newly retired Master Sergeant Robert Bills. He is the type of IT guy who does IT for the fun of it. His call sign in the lab was Crazy Talk because sometimes solving the problem was so obvious it was crazy.
When we walked into the lab, the process was to take a Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 .iso of an operating system, burn it to a DVD, and image a single machine. After imaging, patching, joining to the domain, adding the appropriate software, and then forcing group policy on the system...
