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 […]