Some ideas take a long time to realize. Unfortunately, one of those has been a good way to manage local administrator passwords. System admins the world round have developed scripts to randomize and change the local administrator password of their systems. Others ensure the local administrator password is disabled, but […]
Now that our Network Operating System conversion project got a date that seems really close – February 3rd – I feel a bit of pressure, especially since my once-working task sequence built in MDT 2008 now “mostly” works. I spent the better part of the day trying to troubleshoot why […]
Recently we were able to approve Windows Management Framework for distribution using WSUS. If you haven’t heard, the WMF is a package of tools that enables administrators to do some great things. Included in the Windows Management framework is Powershell 2.0, BITS 4.0, and WinRM 2.0. The downloads come as […]
Just about a year ago I started messing around with the MDT 2008. I found it to be rather slick, despite the glaring crashes that happen frequently. Since then, MDT 2010 was released, and still it crashes. However, despite the rough edges, the results are very, very impressive. I haven’t […]
Over the past few months I’ve had a few large projects. One of which is a replacement project to the “Kraken”, which never did get put into full production use. The largest project of all was the domestic social network expansion project I embarked on (read: we had another child, […]
I’ve recently had the inclination to give Hyper-V a go now that it wasn’t only a release candidate. After a brief setup and install, I was impressed with the responsiveness of the MMC snapin. Compared to VMWare’s Infratructure Client (VIC) it is a huge difference. VIC has on often crashed, […]
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 […]
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 […]
As systems sprawl has taken place, we have had the unfortunate task of implementing products that do not or did not utilize a central store for information, such as Active Directory. As a result, we have numerous products that have their own information stores. This becomes frustrating as an administrator, […]
There are a number of additional components available for purchase from various organizations that claim to help you manage your Active Directory environment. I must admit, many of them look quite intriguing, however, I find it hard to do a justification for such tools when many of them could be […]