Viewing Articles with the tag: ActiveDirectory
Profile Hell
18.Feb.07 | 1 Comment
My lone windows 2003 domain controller died today. The boot/OS/App drive appears to have decided it didn’t want to live anymore. No warning, just dead. Won’t power up, won’t even make a little whine.
Ok fine. I’ve mentioned enough times that 2k3 and Active Directory are rather overkill for the home office. [...]
Windows AD migration
27.Feb.06 | 1 Comment
What a weekend at the “days, nights and weekends” job. Partner and I did something we’ve been dreading for several years: Migrate a very well entrenched Windows NT4 based domain network to Windows 2x Active Directory. Not only that, but we met the goal of zero disruption as we managed to do [...]
An evening of geek adventures
20.Oct.05 | Leave a Comment
Tonight I finally decided I’m comfortable enough with Active Directory that I should wade in and “un-orphan” my poor little web server. He’s been stuck in a busted domain for almost a year when I last reconfigured the home network around AD. Pleasantly, it went smoothly and everything still works. I’m leaning [...]
Served..
18.Jul.05 | Leave a Comment
Last month I had some challenges with my home domain server. At the time, I recall thinking that I really should get another machine going to mirror that one. If it ever were to die, I’d be kinda hosed.
It died last Sunday night.
I pretty much ignored it all last week in some vague [...]
TANJ - revisited
21.May.05 | Leave a Comment
To wrap up last night’s post about my ailing gaming machine:
All better now. Spent a lot of hours running various scanners and utilities. Didn’t really get a hint until I wanted to back some stuff up to my domain server (win2k3 Active Directory). Couldn’t connect. “Huh,” says I cleverly. Rebooted [...]
