Welcome to the site, my name is Jeff and I have been working in the IT field since the early 90's. Most of what I post here is related to work that I do for the various companies that I have worked for over the years. Please feel free to look around ask questions or post comments (if available).
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Recent Posts
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Bulk URL Monitoring
How did I not know about this before? So I’m working on creating a Management Pack for Advanced Group Policy Management, and hunting for the utility to seal a MP. I find this utility buried in the Tools folder. I’m going to link the article I found on using it here as well as scrape the text in case it goes away.
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I have an addiciton problem
At first I thought I had a drinking problem. As evidence by the picture below, I drink A LOT of coffee!
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Week In Review: 07/27/2014
Another week coding the app, the nice thing is that the MVC re-write is pretty much done. In fact the idea of utilizing the DB to store information is actually in place, something I wound up having to do. I have decided to store a snapshot of the relevant data in some tables at login. The actual collection of data and table insert takes roughly 20 seconds, so it’s pretty quick. This speeds up everything quite a bit, the entire site feels a lot more responsive.
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Week In Review: 07/2/2014
I had intended these to be weekly, and I got off track, sorry about that. So I missed the week of Jun 29, Jul 6 and Jul 13. I can tell you that the week of the 29th ended on July 5th, and I was pretty wiped out from all the fireworks and stuff. The week of the 6th we were in Florida on vacation and the last couple of weeks (Jul 13 and this week Jul 20) were about the same.
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Week In Review: 06/22/2014
Not a terribly eventful week, I’ve been working on tuning Ops down and clearing out the errors, and lowering the signal to noise ratio. One of the hardest ones has been the domain trust monitor in the AD MP. So we use the firewall to isolate VLAN’s from one another and I don’t know that I totally agree with that, but one thing at a time I suppose. Our DC’s couldn’t resolve another domain to which we have a trust established, you read that right. So, I tried several different requests to make that go. I created their zone as a secondary in my DNS, had to allow TCP/UDP 53 through for that to work, still no go. Then I noticed that LDAP was being dropped on one of the firewalls so had to allow that through, still no go. Finally took out the big hammer and had those DC’s added to the same firewall group as mine. That worked, sort of, yesterday I noticed I’m still getting some errors, so I’ve decided that Monday I’m going to work on trying to get that and as much of everything else sorted out as I can.