Last night I got the word that our director wanted MS08-067 patched ASAP, so I went into work to patch our servers and develop a script to deploy it to the workstations. We don’t utilize tools such as SCM, and our WSUS deployment isn’t ready for use, so we needed […]
As I wrapped up a few changes and committed them to SVN, I asked my supervisor if there were any issues that were going to interrupt my next project on my list of stuff to do. He chuckled devilishly as I queried relentlessly for an answer, before responding that our […]
I was working on my directory management web app today and am nearly all wrapped up with a pretty big feature – a single password reset for both eDirectory and Active Directory at the same time! You might think this is a small feature, until you realize how terrible iManager […]
Netware has been kind to me. Over the past few years, my advancement in the IT industry has been meteoric, and for that I am extremely thankful. It is, however, a dead OS. Many folks are thinks Netware and Novell still has a future, especially with their OES migration, but […]
I got to thinking today about how little insight we have in our network at the moment. At one point we operated a plethora of different tools that gave a lot of redundant info scattered in various places, and now it seems like they haven’t been maintained so we have […]
One of the things we need to provide is an environment where computers behave one way for a certain group of users in a lab and another way for the same user in a different lab. In order to centrally manage that, we began utilizing Group Policy. We have users […]
“That didn’t take long.” I thought as I thought of ways to rebuff management’s scorn of a product that has seemingly “had a lot of issues” in its short life with our organization. But it is true – we’re attempting to return our VMWare ESXi to HP. Not because we’re […]
So the saga with squid continues. I am now fighting with NTLM authentication. According to the documentation, I should be able to use Samba/Winbind with an authentication helper to authenticate to a Windows Domain. What does that do for us? The cache log will show username rather than IP address, […]
It seems that Squid cache is living in the past. With support for only a single core and support for SMP only loosely on the horizon, we were looking for ways to improve the performance of our Squid proxy / filtering server which we use for filtering. To overcome the […]
Today we were configuring Squid on a RHEL 5. box. Building from source, we knew we’d get a nice 64-bit Squid caching server, ready to quickly process the cache and what have you. We run a filtering plugin from Secure Computing, which had to be compiled in with it. Unfortunately, […]