Summer 2008
A large number of projects commenced: · ANSR to Proteus migration · Manual to GPO delivered applications · Computer imaging with Windows Deployment Services · Implement VLAN’s · Implement Firewall ·...
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In an effort to manage a portion of the network I began working on replacing the current methodology for computer imaging. Imaging computers with Ghost in our network environment is very dangerous; the...
View ArticleSummer 2008
A large number of projects commenced: · ANSR to Proteus migration · Manual to GPO delivered applications · Computer imaging with Windows Deployment Services · Implement VLAN’s · Implement Firewall ·...
View ArticleSummer 2007
In an effort to manage a portion of the network I began working on replacing the current methodology for computer imaging. Imaging computers with Ghost in our network environment is very dangerous; the...
View ArticleSummer 2008
A large number of projects commenced: · ANSR to Proteus migration · Manual to GPO delivered applications · Computer imaging with Windows Deployment Services · Implement VLAN’s · Implement Firewall ·...
View ArticleSummer 2007
In an effort to manage a portion of the network I began working on replacing the current methodology for computer imaging. Imaging computers with Ghost in our network environment is very dangerous; the...
View ArticleSummer 2008
A large number of projects commenced: · ANSR to Proteus migration · Manual to GPO delivered applications · Computer imaging with Windows Deployment Services · Implement VLAN’s · Implement Firewall ·...
View ArticleBulk URL Monitoring
How did I not know about this before? So I’m working on creating a Management Pack for Advanced Group Policy Management, and hunting for the utility to seal a MP. I find this utility buried in the...
View ArticleDISM…’because reasons’
I don’t know why this is a thing, it shouldn’t be a thing. I’m going to post a link to the page on TechNet, and then just paste in the content. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn482069.aspx...
View ArticleDSC + WinRM + GPO
Ok, so I’m working on Desired State Configuration at work, and I had created a GPO to manage the WinRM settings a long while ago. This allows me to control how WinRM works and so forth and was needed...
View ArticleAutomating Linux in Azure
Automation is one of my major areas of work, and most of my automation revolves around System Center Orchestrator. I also do a fair amount of work in Azure and thought it was time to dust off my...
View ArticleUnified Logon Script
This script is entirely too long to publish as a page, you can find it in my public repo at the following URL. http://mod-posh.googlecode.com/svn/vbs/production/UnifiedLogonScript.vbs This script is...
View ArticleUnified Startup Script
Following along with the Unified Logon Script, there is also a Unified Startup Script. Again with the release of Windows 7 much of what we did via script technologies is now handled differently but I...
View ArticleGroup Policy Preferences in a mixed environment
We were recently directed to push Windows 7 out to the network which triggered the previous post on Windows 7 deployment. In order to make this happen we made a significant investment in hardware. The...
View ArticleFinding Enabled User Accounts
I was recently notified that one of the computers that we’re responsible for had been compromised by Torpig. The way I understand it is the user launches a website that might be a part of a phishing...
View ArticleExtending a Virtual Disk on the MD3000i
We purchased our new iSCSI SAN this past summer and one of the important features for us was the ability to resize a lun as needed. The Dell MD3000i gave us that capability, while not in the best...
View ArticleThe value of virtualization
From time to time I think that we all sometimes overlook the value of virtualization. I know that I do, and it came home to me today. We have a problem with storage, it seems we can’t get enough! Over...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Clustering
Our current file server cluster falls out of warranty in about a month, and as it was over-spec’d to begin with we made a purchase of new hardware from Dell. We bought several things, two new servers...
View ArticleFun with VMware ESXi
In the course of rolling out new hardware we encountered some problems with our up-and-running VMware ESXi servers. I won’t go into that now, but I’ll go over the fun things we found out. Most of these...
View ArticleSQL Server Upgrade
In an earlier post I mentioned that we were in the process of upgrading hardware and moving something’s around on the back-end. The end-result of this process would make us feature complete in our...
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