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Monit Tricks
In: SysAdmin| Tips & Tricks
4 Feb 2010Recently I had a chance to do a little monit foo with a co-worker for a rather interesting project that we will hopefully be sending off into the intertubes.
For one part of this project, I got the chance to get my hands dirty with my old friend monit. Monit, for those that [...]
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- Tags: monit, SysAdmin, Tips and Tricks
HMC Resource Management
In: Micro$oft| Tips & Tricks
5 Jan 2010Today I’m going to talk about the wonderful thing that is the Resource Manger for HMC (Hosted Messaging and Collaboration), the wondering framework from Microsoft for provisioning users for Exchange, OCS and SharePoint automagically.
Now, we tend to do things a bit differently at my current job. For example, I’m pretty sure I’m [...]
I’m a VMWare Certified Professional
In: SysAdmin| Tips & Tricks
16 Nov 2009Yes, its true, I passed the test. It wasn’t easy. In fact, I took the test 2 times.
The first time I went into the test I felt fairly confident. I had studied the admin guide and the maximum guides. I had taken the mock exams and done well on those. [...]
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- Tags: Certifications, VMWare
IgniteIT Talk
In: Cool Videos| Tips & Tricks
14 May 2009About a month ago I gave a lightning talk at a local IgniteIT Event. I haven’t done a lot of public speaking so I was a bit nervous going in. But the people that I was with stated that the talk I gave was pretty good. I assumed they had been [...]
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- Tags: IgniteIT, Inbox Zero, Talks
Great Service!
In: Tips & Tricks
16 Mar 2009A few weeks ago, one of our Public Radio stations here in the state of Iowa was off the air. It was a good week or two that it was out. I had a strong feeling that they knew about the outage, but I figured I would send them a quick note [...]
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- Tags: Customer Service, Public Radio
My Inbox is out of control!
In: Tips & Tricks
2 Dec 2008I’ll admit it, I’m an email pack rat. I don’t like being this way, I just am. I’m terrible about deleting emails. I send myself links to read at a later point in time. I often use my inbox as a todo list by sending myself messages of things I need to [...]
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- Tags: Email Archiving, Getting Things Done, GTD, Inbox Zero, Pack Rat
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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