Posts about the administration of systems. These days it's mostly Windows but there's still Linux work to be done. Oh yeah. And network stuff. Mostly solutions to problems I've encountered and a smidge of philosophy.
Last night I was updating the Switch OS on my Mikrotik routers. I was doing it remotely, cause that's what you do when you only live three minutes away from the site. It was not working. Automatic update. No joy. Manual update? Nope. It'd flash…
Continue reading...At my last gig I was hoping that a CMDB would be able to act as a single pane of glass for managing the IT environment. We were using Sysaid which did a great many things (except for monitoring Linux servers which was 90% of…
Continue reading...There's a lot of disinformation around Windows updates and I frequently have to debunk the notion that Windows updates should only be applied as a last resort. Just about all my coworkers at my two most recent gigs (and the folks I help on the…
Continue reading...Over the weekend I performed a memory upgrade on one of our Poweredge servers. It needed a bit more in order to run a virtual machine in addition to it's designated role as an application server. A simple task, right? Open the case, smack two…
Continue reading...Here's the email I send out to my coworkers when they're given access to a Shared mailbox in Exchange Online. I prefer shared mailboxes over distribution lists in almost every instance. It's also a great way to share out a mailbox of an employee who's…
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