June 25, 2008For an upcoming project, we started moving an external vendor off of a Microsoft PPTP VPN tunnel (per user client), to a fixed VPN tunnel using IPSEC, and handled at the gateway. During this migration, it was decided to remove access to the PPTP tunnel to ensure the vendor was using the proper tunnel. [...]
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June 19, 2008We deployed Veritas’ DLO for a manager a few months ago after a laptop rebuild. Mostly because he spent several hours a week making regular backups of his documents folder. A pointless exercise when we have the software to handle backups for him.
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February 19, 2008How badly can MS Word 2007 mess up a blog post? I just found this interesting item in Word 2007 that allows you to publish to a blog. This could be interesting, and allow me to do more writing offline (flights, etc). I have tried Microsoft LiveWriter a while ago. It seemed interesting, [...]
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December 5, 2007I did some AD cleanup yesterday, including removing some accounts that have been disabled for over a year. This is all part of our migration plans to move to integration .
What I didn’t notice was one of those accounts was for an employee that hadn’t been with the company for several months, [...]
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October 23, 2007I have a terrible memory, which is why I’ve started keeping this blog, so I can remind myself on how I’ve fixed stuff, and if somebody else finds it useful, then an added bonus. As I mentioned in my previous post, I mentioned that I was cleaning up our images server. This lead [...]
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October 16, 2007Part of the work I’m doing while I’m out had me add a collection of test users. This could have been quite a task, had it not been for the nice features of vbscript.
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September 17, 2007A few months ago, I signed up for an account with Zooomr, just to play. Whilst uploading a batch of images from the Dallas Arboretum, I noticed a “Geo” feature (I believe Flickr have a similar feature). Having a quick play around, I noticed I was able to append longitude, and latitude to [...]
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July 26, 2007Earlier today, somebody mentioned not being able to get to the internet, but didn’t seem to be having any issues getting to local resources (file server, printers, etc). They also mentioned that they had seen a meesage about IP address conflicts with another computer. This is a little interesting trying to debug, because [...]
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July 5, 2007I’ve been asked to perform an upgrade for one of our vendors to a new version of our software. Unfortunately their data is still stored in the old DB format, and app pages. We figured the easier way to perform the upgrade would be to migrate their data to the new format, rather [...]
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June 22, 2007Another issue where scripting easily helps your day job is handling the copious amounts of log files. I handle about 15 web servers in our production environment (that I remember off the top of my head), and quite a few in our dev/stage/qa environments. These generate a lot of log files. Our [...]
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I'm a full time network administrator, working for a large company in the automotive industry. I enjoy spending time with my family, when I get away from work that is. I also enjoy photography, and computer programming.
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