I've been the IT guy on the development team - it's not pretty.  Generally, you take one of two paths as soon as possible: you either become a developer full-time (guilty), or you dive headfirst back into the infrastructure team, never again to let anyone know that you're constantly developing scripts and apps to make your life easier.

The Microsoft IT-facing bloggers have been faced with a barely tangential dilemma - blogging about IT platform development and problems, while swimming in a flood of MSDN-camp SDK and API blogs.  Well, no more.  http://blogs.technet.com/ is born.

I found it via Kevin Lisota - apparently he's one of the first to get migrated over, and so the “soft launch” of TechNet blogs first peeks its head above the water to see if anyone's watching.  The site is definitely in a state of forming - the title still says “MSDN Blogs”, and there's a few test posts in there - but I know I'll definitely be subscribing to the main feed - and if you're an IT-head, or you have any interest in being one of the developers that actually has a clue about how your platform works, you will be too.

- G