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One Character == World of Suck
7 Jun 2009Ladies and Gentlemen, today you are going to learn a lesson on why you do NOT edit the active directory directly for exchange attributes.
Background
A long time ago, we had a very crappy provisioning system for our hosted Exchange 2003 platform. It worked ok, but missed a lot of things that we wanted [...]
Every once in a while one of the LUG lists that I am on decides to have a big dick contest and everyone shows off who has the better uptime. Its actually a way of generating traffic on mailing lists that have greatly suffered any sort of reasonable traffic in a while. [...]
IBM Support
In: SysAdmin
25 Jan 2009I’ve been meaning to write out this for the past week and just haven’t had the time.
Last weekend, I was thrilled to get a call at midnight from someone on my team telling me that one of our primary authoritative DNS servers was having issues. We have 3 so [...]
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- Tags: IBM, Rabbit Hole, Support
Setting up a silent DNS master server
In: SysAdmin| Tips & Tricks
24 Nov 2008Recently, I have begun the process of moving my domains from the DNS servers at my previous employer. They have allowed me to continue hosting my domains there as I still send them a spam feed of unknown addresses from my various domains. Yes spammers, keep that mail coming. Its only doing you [...]
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- Tags: DNS, Silent Master, Tips and Tricks
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