Memory shortages - or is it?
Occasionally we receive a report of a Solaris server with a swap space shortage. Much of the time there is no problem. We get enough of these reports that I've set up a technical doc Solaris Memory...
View ArticleWindows Remote Assistance and firewalls
So I've been reading up on "Windows Remote Assistance" where a "novice" can request assistance from an "expert" There's a decent overview at...
View ArticleComputer objects under the old ISO container
I'm gathering data about the OUs under OIT that we've been planning to migrate up to the OIT level for a while now. After our latest re-org, there current stucture is even more out of date that usual....
View ArticleOut of Band Microsoft Updates & Patches for March 2011
Good Afternoon, Microsoft usually issues its' Critical Updates & Security patches on the second Tuesday of the month. But under certain conditions when a critical security vulnerability is...
View ArticleErrors with Kerberos Service Principal Names
Hi folks,I got a note from Billy warning me of some duplicate service principal names. From what I can gather, this is caused usually by having a single service registered in the directory as running...
View ArticleSunOracle ILOM to ALOM
Current T3 systems use ILOM 3.0 or higher. Which no longer supports the legacy ALOM commands. That's a change some of us will have to get use to as the command syntax is very different. I found a...
View ArticleLDAP client issue on Solaris
Started a workaround section today on the xteams website. First workaround added for LDAP client issues on Unix. This might help anyone after hours and oncall for Unix servers experiencing an LDAP...
View ArticleOpening web links from within applications in Ubuntu 10.10
I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 (actually Lubuntu 10.10, but this should apply) and the Linux Groupwise client (yes, someone uses it) was suddenly not able to open external web links. Some Ubuntu apps...
View ArticleCustom .ADM files in the year 2011
So, we have some servers coming into Wolftech that need to enable "AutoAdminLogon"This setting is turned off by the Microsoft EC "baseline, best practice" security GPOs applied to the Domain.Not a...
View ArticleOIT ISO Calendar resources
We've got s couple of Google Calendars created for the ISO group in OIT.read more
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