Things to know as a Tech Consultant !!

IT Expertise:

Core

IIS 6/7
Windows Server 2003/2008
DNS/WINS (Name Resolution)
TCP/IP & other network considerations
SQL Server 2005 Advanced Administration (Backup, Monitoring, Logshipping or Database Mirroring)
Basic Firewall rules and Proxy
IT Infrastructure Design
Hardware Acquisition (RAM, CPU, Disk I/O, and other hardware considerations)
Performance Monitoring
Capacity Planning
Growth Management
Workflow (Windows Workflow Foundation)
Client Troubleshooting & Support: IE, Firefox, Safari, Office XP, 2003, 2007, etc...
HTML & Client side scripting (Javascript, AJAX, DHTML, XSL, XSLT, XHTML)
Exchange and SMTP integration (Inbound and Outbound email including contact objects)
High Availability: Microsoft Cluster Services, Windows Network Load Balancing
Storage: Appliances, HBAs, SANs, Archive Storage
Backup Solutions: Various Tape, Hardware and software snapshots, software nearline and offline storage (soon to add DPM 2007)
Hardware load balancing, ISA Secure Web Publishing
IAG (Internet Application Gateway) Whale Communications
Single Sign on integration
Connection Monitoring & Troubleshooting (ADO.NET, Web Services, CDO)
Global Deployments - Multi farm deployments
Dev, Test, Staging, Production - Staged deployments
MOF, ITIL, MSF Frameworks and strong understanding of the development life cycle
Virtualization - Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC, VMWare

Solutions:

Internet Publishing
Internet Community Portal
Intranet Central Search Portal
Intranet Departmental Dashboard Portal
Intranet Collaboration
Business Process Management
Extranet Collaboration
Document Management
Records repository
BI Solutions
Search Center or Intranet and Internet Search Solutions
Reports Center
Mobile Solutions
Remote employee solutions
Multi lingual solutions
Project Server
Web 2.0 Solution: Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking (Profiles & My Sites)

Extended

AD (Group Policies, Security Groups, DLs, Contacts, authentication, and attributes for profile import)
Desktop Management (IE settings, Office deployment, storage and collaboration considerations)
MOM Systems Center Operations Monitoring of performance and system health of servers and dependencies
WAN and Network performance testing and considerations, (minimum performance levels) caching
File Services & (extremely light... policy SMS and Patching considerations)
Antivirus management solutions like Forefront
Presence Integration (LCS, Office Live Communication Server, SMTP and SIP)
Understanding and supporting Dev: ASP.NET, C#, Assemblies, GAC, Bin, web.config, web parts, web part connections, missing assemblies
MIIS in cross forest or resource forest scenarios or dynamic security groups
Migration Skills: Public Folders, Documentum, Lotus Notes, CMS, WebSphere
Interop and Integration

Office Interoperability (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Project Server deployment
Microsoft Dynamics (CRM, ERP, AXAPTA, GreatPlains, etc...)
Infopath forms troubleshooting and basic design skills (XML, HTML)
Visio integration
Biztalk
SharePoint Designer for workflows, CSS, Design, etc...
Reporting and Analysis Integration: SQL Reporting Services, SQL Analysis Services
SAP integration with Duet
BDC Siebel web services integration
Oracle Financials integration in BDC and Excel Services
Other ADO.NET BDC connections: includes various CRM, ERP, DBMS
Commerce integration in Internet sites
Web Services integration
Documentum, WebSphere
Search/Indexing Integration
Data warehouses RDBMS
Single Sign on solutions and integration with client certificates, smart cards, and 2 factor auth
N tiered web apps, web services, and stores
Samba and NFS?