Entries Categorized as 'Work'

Things to wreck your weekend…

Date July 14, 2008

I’ve discovered that there are always lots of random things that can wreck a good weekend… For example, getting alarms, and emails at 0700 on a Sunday morning reporting possible power issues, then more alarms at 0900 confirming a power outage.

Technorati Tags: Snake, Work

Scripting Dial-In removal

Date June 25, 2008

For 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. [...]

Veritas DLO, and TASKPANE errors

Date June 19, 2008

We 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.

Technorati Tags: DLO, Symantec, Tech, Windows, Work

Rise and Fall of procrastination

Date April 29, 2008

I’ve been stuck in a rut again, not sure why.

Technorati Tags: procrastination, time management, todo

The Midnight Oil…

Date March 18, 2008

I’ve quite often been called crazy, working until all hours of the day, cracking away to get things done. Trying to explain to people that for me, working 15+ hours a day is easy, and I consider it fun. Not many people get the opportunity to call what they do fun, but I [...]

NADA 2008

Date February 11, 2008

This year, I got roped into taking part in NADA 2008. While the prospect of doing yet another conference was not so appealing, the prospect of getting to a new city was interesting. This year, NADA is hosted in San Francisco, so the potential of seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was pretty cool, [...]

Scheduled Jobs…

Date December 7, 2007

They don’t run so well, when somebody changes all the passwords they run as, without notifying you… grumbles

Technorati Tags: Work

Domain Cleanups, and Broken Tasks

Date December 5, 2007

I 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, [...]

Looping Directories, and Bad “Encryption”

Date October 23, 2007

I 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 [...]

Batch Adding AD Users

Date October 16, 2007

Part 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.

Technorati Tags: Active Directory, AD, Scripting, Work