People, Technology, Connected

While polling the microsoft exchange team site recently, I found this post about an internal tool the dev team has available to them, which recently has been made public. After a quick download and setup of RDCman, I was off and running. I exported my current list of servers straight out of “remote desktops” tool and directly into rdcman. Once some intitial editing was done for credentials to each server (we have two domains, each with different admin credentials), it was time to check it out.  continue reading…

Well, I can’t believe it has been an entire year since I last posted on this blog. I have a ton of learning to convey and just haven’t had the time. On a personal note, I began taking care of two parents who were both diagnosed with Alzheimer’s back in mid 2008.  Trying to keep up with my own family (wife and two kids) and add to that all of my parent’s affairs, well my life has just been crazy. Thinking about blogging, but just never getting to it.

The VMWare cluster implementation is complete and I will add some posts about that. As I move towards a full IMAP to Exchange 2010 implementation, I will add posts regarding those processes as well.  I moved from my iPhone to Droid recently and quite honestly, will probably never go back . I will post my findings on that as well.

Stay tuned…

Frustrated by the lack of documentation by Adventnet on this topic, I decided to dig into and discover the proper procedure on installing an SSL certificate that would work for their ADManagerPlus application. Having some previous experience with Java certificate stores, I used that knowledge to complete the task. If you are like me, I tried to use Adventnet’s documentation but kept getting stuck on how to embed the Root CA correctly (knowing this from the fact that https revealed an untrusted certificate!). This is the process I followed to get ADManagerPlus working with our private Root CA…

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Tired of seeing ^M characters in your config files? Try this nice little VI trick.

Open the file and type:

 :%s/^M//g

To enter the ^M, press the control key then keys V and M

Ahh, so the woes of running Vista continue to pile up. As mentioned at the end of my previous post, I bought a laptop designed for Vista-which has proven to be more stable so far in the short run. But another nice little quirk I found with Vista is it just doesn’t like to attach to legacy wireless devices. On a recent trip to Seattle I found out just how bad it can be. continue reading…

Okay, this probably won’t be what you think (I am misleading you just a little by the title here), but if you want to see a significant increase in performance from Vista, I suggest switching to Server 08 as your workstation. Many administrators prefer to use a server based OS as their primary workstation for several reasons, one of which has not been performance. This all changes with the modular design and function of Server 08. continue reading…

Remember the days of slipstreaming the latest security patches from Microsoft directly into your RIS images? Well, the same can be done with WDS. The process is a little different but works like a charm. Unfortunately, this process does not work for WinXP images, only Vista Images. The following process will slipstream patches into Vista WIM images. continue reading…