Wins and SCOM
Spent much of today wrangling with System Center Operations Manager and my new backup WINS server. There’s a list of hotfixes that are pre-requisites for runn...
Category: worklog
Tuesday – May 5
Spurred by some recent traffic on the Windows-HiEd list, I have looked into the Windows Update process on some of our Server 2008 Core systems. The thread was s...
Wednesday – April 29
Some Microsoft updates released yesterday, including Office 2007 SP2. TSGateway server Web and Terminal services didn’t restart gracefully. Investigating, I f...
Wednesday – April 22
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...
Friday – April 17
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...
Monday – April 13
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...
TGIF – April 03
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...
Wednesday – March 25
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...
Tuesday – March 24
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 ...
Monday – March 23
Goal for today: finish moving provisioning. Made some initial progress on separating functionality into different modules. Lots of reading about modules, semant...