WSS 3.0, MSSearch Service and SQL Server
In my previous post I talked about the SQL upgrade that we performed recently. I left out the part that had to do with our SharePoint server. While it is fundamentally related I thought I would share...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 Core Net Server
I wanted to setup a DNS and DHCP server for my home network. I could have used a Linux server to do this, but I wanted to write about server core. I also wanted to mess with working over ssh to do...
View ArticleProduction Script: UpdateADDescription
The UpdateADDescription is run hourly on a computer connected to the domain. It’s sole purpose is to loop through all the computers in a given OU and update their Description property. It serves as...
View ArticleDPM 2007, Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2008 Core Domain Controllers
Still bringing services online after our recent hardware upgrade, today’s goal was to make DPM 2007 go. The original server was a PoiwerEdge 1950 with a MD1000 attached. It was populated with 15 750gb...
View ArticleDrupal to Django Migration
To be honest I completely ripped off Carson, he has been talking on and off about this for a while. I decided about a week ago that I would give it a stab, and so started searching Google for answers....
View ArticleRegistrySizeLimit…who knew?
This past Friday we pushed out 30 new lab machines. These machines were imaged the same way we image the rest of our labs. We noticed that several applications failed to install, and Carson began...
View ArticleOEMStringArray and VMWare
OEMStringArray as defined by Microsoft will contain: List of free-form strings that an OEM defines. For example, an OEM defines the part numbers for system reference documents, manufacturer contact...
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DPM Finally Complete
Not really a whole lot to say here, just really happy that my backup of user data is complete! It has taken about a month to get a successful backup and now that I have one, I’m not really sure what to...
View ArticleDjango and Windows
You will need several things before you begin: 7-zip Python MySQL Server Setuptools Visual Studio 2008 Express: vcsetup.exe MySQLdb Module Apache Mod WSGI Sysinterals Suite Django Getting Started The...
View ArticleSubversion and svnsync
First things first, I am in no way proficient in how subversion works, but I am usually pretty good at reading documentation and then being able to work out issues I encounter. After reading Chapter 5...
View ArticleDelegation of OU and GPO’s
Recently A department within the School wanted to leverage the capabilities that we currently provide many other departments. They currently run their own domain, and they needed the same amount of...
View ArticleComplicated Printing
Why does printing need to be so complicated? Admittedly a portion of the problem falls on us running our own domain. At times it can be irritating, like now, and at times it can be a lifesaver. So this...
View ArticleSQL Management Express and Microsoft##SSEE
Download and install Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express Download and install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit Configure the built-in SQL instance for remote management by...
View ArticleOne admin, multiple domains
So I want to be able to have a single Django admin site for more than one domain. After talking it over with Carson, he showed me what needed to be done. It’s really quite simple when you talk to...
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The usefulness of TCPDUMP
We are mid-firewall migration, it’s set to happen in about 2hrs from this post. But in the middle of trying to figure out why we are getting crazy network outages, we ran tcpdump on our dns/dhcp...
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Does anybody really know what time it is?
Or, How to fix your Novell clients so they don’t get hosed up times! If you don’t know this, when a computer in an Active Directory domain gets an invalid time it stops working. It has to do with...
View ArticleActive Directory Naming Strategy
Does anyone have a good naming convention for Active Directory? It’s all completely subjective, what works for one organization is absolutely horrible for the next. Does anyone document what their...
View ArticleWorking with computer objects
So I’m working with computer objects, if you can’t tell from my previous post. There are times when what you really want to know about a given computer is, who’s responsible for it. With good user...
View ArticleManaging your network interfaces for VMWare Player
If you need to reconfigure your virtual network, you will need the vmnetcfg.exe utility. This is part of the VMware Player download, but you have to run the installer such that it only extracts it’s...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 and Print Logging
Yesterday I got a support ticket that stated the user was unable to connect to any printers on the network. I found this odd since we push out printers via GPO Preferences, and that user’s particular...
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