Moving on with OD/AD integration one should ask himself ‘What if?’ What if something fails what should we do.
I’m talking about components of the setup such as Active Directory, DNS, Open Directory etc. If all of sudden one of those newspapers loose their connection to the internet – what would happen? Read »
Tags: Active Directory, Apple, DNS, Open Directory, Server Setup
Finally I’m back after a long spring/summer Vancouver Island ‘trip’. Back here at Grandview office everything is same as it was when I left. Except for new equipment that has been received for our never-ending projects.
Maybe Island installation project is finished, but I have to support, oh well about 100, new computers and users. Read »
Tags: Active Directory, Apple, Open Directory, Server Setup
It’s about time… Last week of Island OS X migration is behind the corner and I cannot wait any much longer for all this to over. It’s been a great experience in some cases, in some others it was pain in the @$$. With last newspaper in OS X and InDesign I can relax and wait for next challenges my life is going to throw my way.
Next challenge, of course, would be migrating dozen LMP newspapers to OD/AD scheme (more about it in my OS X Setup posting) But before that there is a lot of ‘cleaning up’ to do, tying loose ends, in other words.
But, I’m running s bit ahead of myself. Let’s recall what was done in last 4 months, shall we? Read »
Tags: Apple, Open Directory, Server Setup
For what reason, I don’t know, I was punished and sent to install Windows PCs for sales people in Nanaimo Daily News.
What’s been the main reason I switched to Apple long years ago ruined my day again.
It might sound like an easy task, but believe me it was not. Sure you can open each one of them, load applications on it, update all of them, set up with user and that’s it. Well, not really. First of all, even-though installing applications on each one of them wouldn’t be a big deal since it’s only MS Office they need, it’s updating it. We are talking about downloading more than 30Mb updates for Windows (who am I kidding, it must of been all 70Mb, but at this point I don’t remember for sure) and downloading 50Mb for office and then 30Mb more. So all together I would have to pull more than 500Mb of updates from internet. Sure, you can say that Apple Mac OS X updates are even larger, but at least you can streamline their downloads. Read »
Tags: Apple, Blogging, Server Setup
Well, it’s been almost 3 weeks without entries. I’ve been setting computers up in most beautiful location yet – Ucluelet BC. If you don’t know where it is, you might have heard of Tofino, well it’s just north of it. There’s no corporate class hotels – there are cabins, there’s no franchise restaurants – there are corner cafes, everything is different there. People are different, food is different, atmosphere is different – those two weeks I’ve been there felt like vacation. Read »
Tags: Active Directory, Apple, Blogging, Open Directory, Server Setup
After having some issues couple of weeks ago with our main OD master, I had to promote existing replica to master and downgrade master down to replica. Well today all that is going back to it’s original setup. What was replica should become master and all replicas of old master will become replicas of new master. Sounds ‘Star Warish’? Well, you are reading IT blog after all.
Promoting replica wasn’t an easy task. For some reason I started getting message “Unable to access domain controller.” and “This computer is unable to access the domain controller for an unknown reason”. Read »
Tags: Active Directory, Apple, Open Directory, Server Setup
After having some DNS, DHCP and what other issues we had at Port Alberni, I’ve decided to get some help from ‘above’. I’ve contacted Apple and have setup a meeting to go other our setup.
In the meantime I’m installing OD replica in each of our location. First replica went into Port Alberni, and the reliability and speed have increased significantly. They don’t have to contact Nanaimo for authentication scheme anymore, all goes through local replica. Read »
Tags: Active Directory, Apple, Open Directory, Server Setup
Well, again, I can say certainly that Duncan is so far the easiest deployment I’ve experienced.
Let’s recall what has been happening with OS X setup so far going all the way back to my first OS X 10.4 Server setup:
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Tags: Active Directory, Apple, Open Directory, Server Setup
Once again I’m coming back from Vancouver Island on Thursday afternoon. This week was one of those weeks when you fall in love with your job, again. Everything was smooth. Installation, networking, Domain binding… even place I stayed in was one of the best – ‘Oceanfront Grand Resort and Marina‘.
Tags: Active Directory, Apple, Open Directory, Server Setup
Here I am again, on my way home after tough week on Vancouver Island in Port Alberni. Let me recall what happened.
Tags: Active Directory, Apple, Blogging, FileMaker Pro, Open Directory, Server Setup
Last week has been eventful. After shooting various type of photos for over 7 years I’ve decided I want to practice and grow my portfolio of modeling, fashion and headshots. Not an easy task, I might add. If shooting nature, landscapes, city and architecture requires only camera, fashion and modeling requires… right – models. In [...]
Just arrived at F5-Expo at Vancouver Convention Center. I bet there will be hundreds tweets, blog posts especially about bumpy start of the expo. Running quickly to the office to grab stack of business cards I thought I would be late for conference kick-off scheduled. Update: Despite computer issues, F5-Staff decided to let everybody with [...]
I’ve neglected my blog for quite some time time now writing only one post per month, if that. With this post I’ve determined to write about all those things I have done in the past 6-9 months but haven’t shared yet. I’ve mentioned our new corporate Rogers Cell phone plans, but haven’t really talked about [...]
Two members of our team were heading oversees, Russia to be exact, for couple of weeks and it was my responsibility to come up with solution for cheaper roaming. One of them was on Telus with World Blackberry while other had personal Fido phone. Telus roams fine in Russia, but bills are outrageous. Telus charges [...]
After shooting Anthony Sedlak at Eat! Vancouver show Friday night, I’ve imported footage from my Sanyo Xacti HD1010 into iMovie 09. I was so happy that by converting .mp4 files into .mov it actually reduces size by 50%. The truth was – it only imported half of the clip.