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Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
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Wednesday – April 22

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I’ve been working on revising and refactoring a Perl application that I wrote about four years ago to handle our domain account provisioning. Originally, it w...

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Friday – April 17

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Last night, I stumbled across this video: Office Casual: How to work with the ribbon  The Inside Office Online blog post for the video includes links to th...

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Monday – April 13

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Email catch-up, and checking some alerts on DCs. Some assorted admin tasks: Hung print job User quota upgrade. Check a couple department quotas Advised departme...

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TGIF – April 03

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Long week; lots of fun with home directories. Covering backup while Cheryl and Frank are away. Just found the PureText application. It provides a universal “P...

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Wednesday – March 25

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Fixed permissions early (6 am) successfully with NetApp fsecurity command. That and the secedit tool made it quick work. Did a little Russinovich-guided analysi...

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Tuesday – March 24

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Home directory permissions issues. Found: How to display the security permissions of a file from the filer which mentions the fsecurity command. Also found the ...

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Monday – March 23

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Goal for today: finish moving provisioning. Made some initial progress on separating functionality into different modules. Lots of reading about modules, semant...

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Thursday – March 19

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Smacked my forehead last night as I saw an obvious solution to a potentially involved scripting task. Did some brief testing of the RightFax service that Marty ...

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Pandora Windows Gadget

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

If you enjoy Pandora’s online music service, and you’re using Vista or Windows 7, you might enjoy the Pandora Gadget. I find it convenient because I don’t...

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Wednesday – March 18

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Greg has been hammering on the storage migration, while I have climbed over a provisioning hurdle. Checking IPS Cert expiration issue. Worked more provisioning....

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