What's Your Current Project?
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OK I've tossed another on my plate - learn to deploy all required settings via GP (GPP and IEAK for IE) and if possible remove the requirement to grant users local admin rights for web application use (i.e. install ActiveX controls without needing local Admin rights)
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A recent ML post has me building out AD in my second lab site and testing out DIrectAccess. Beyond that, I'm toying with the idea of writing an AWS Server 2012 optimization script.
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@Nara said:
A recent ML post has me building out AD in my second lab site and testing out DIrectAccess. Beyond that, I'm toying with the idea of writing an AWS Server 2012 optimization script.
ML is starting to have some influence, I see
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Hummm Projects...
- Migrate some storage from physical to Virtual - Not the server yet though...
- Install some 2012 R2 Servers and have them be the New AD Domain, DNS DHCP
- Remove some of the older 2003 Physical boxes
- Attempt to Remove more Commvault from my Life... - still like the email stubbing but exch2010+ has that if I want to purchase enterprise cals I guess
-- commvault server move to virtual, but keep tape drive functionality for email archiving / compliance - the make sure veeam has tape aux option as well. - move my Veeam Server from Physical to Virtual (uninstall - reinstall probably)
- VoIP Elastix - while keeping our existing system in place - putting that one off... Server looks Easy... phones / softphones have no idea!
- Complain about my choice of firewall - thinking I should have gone another direction, x300 works but is loud and QoS is odd
- upgrade some older systems to SSD's - leave XP on 1 / two of them the others are old systems running Win 7 but want them on SSDs to give them a little longer life. (that shouldn't be too difficult - trick is imaging to non-identical size drives for low/no cost imaging - clonezilla doesn't like different size drives)
-- Projects that have been completed recently - for others
- New Virtualization Server ESXi Free 5.5, and be able to manage from vsphere 5.5 client from a virtual host DC (tricky)
- Move / Change DC from physical to virtual, demote the older ones
- Exchange 2007 > Virtual Exchange 2007 (they didn't want to spend money for 2010 when they didn't need it)
- Various system reloads/upgrades/SSD installs
Think that covers about 25% of my headaches lately...
Heading over to Vegas next week to look at tech and security stuff... (might be nice to see that metal 3D Printing System)(Home Project List is HUGE)
- New Exterior
New Windows
New Flooring for ~ 1,500sqft (possibly some subflooring as well)
New Bathroom - since its currently just studs
New Front Yard... currently weeds / dead things + fixing sprinkler lines / valves - stupid system - wish nest or someone had a nice web managed system... (saw one last year - too much money)
Roof - Repairs and better flashing all around
New Exterior Doors - going from several single pane glass doors to nicer Low-e
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That is a LOT of projects
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Forgot Vacation... that has now become a project instead of a plan...
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@BC said:
Forgot Vacation... that has now become a project instead of a plan...
Mine keeps getting pushed off. Was going to England in May, that's been cancelled. Then was going to go to the Caribbean this year, had to cancel that too. I'm sticking to my guns about the Italy trip in the fall, though.
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this was our weekend project.
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Very nice. Now my wife will be jealous as we have no yard at all.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Very nice. Now my wife will be jealous as we have no yard at all.
one of the main reasons we bought this house. An acre in the middle of city limits. Live oak tree and 4 pecan trees. And it's got a big office that in itself is a project I need to tackle. Dirty.
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Very nice. We have no lawn at all and park in a parking lot
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@scottalanmiller said:
Very nice. We have no lawn at all and park in a parking lot
sorry dude. setup the watering system today
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Last weekend I cut into my water main to install a two for a sprinkler system.
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Tonight I did two disk space extensions where existing partitions had to be expanded in place. Then I got my girls to help me clean the house while the wife was out grocery shopping.
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@scottalanmiller finished y'all.
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Oh very nice. I like the walkway.
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On Friday I wrapped up coding/testing on some new scripts for our shop floor production reporting system. It uses this proprietary language with a dialect similar to VB. One of my primary tasks was to modify our PO Receiving process so it utilizes ASN data from EDI-enabled vendors. Now, rather than operators having to type/scan details off the paperwork (and inevitably making mistakes), I coded it to automatically key the entire transaction based on an ID # that's scanned off our vendor's inventory barcode label. The operator's new procedure (at least for vendors we're receiving ASNs from) is to simply scan the barcode label, verify the data on the screen, our inventory label prints, and the transaction done. Should be very slick. I also did a number of workflow improvements based on feedback from the operators on the shop floor. All of this will roll out Tuesday morning. I did an overly cautious amount of testing so it should go well (knock on wood)
Also on Friday I received approval for a new phone system so I will be getting the ball rolling on that next week. We're going with Switchvox (commercial Asterisk system from Digium.) 50 handsets across the office and manufacturing plant. This will yield us about $1,000/month in immediate savings thanks to conversion from PRI to SIP trunking, elimination of backup analog lines for the PRI (because it randomly drops calls due to the poor quality of our underground copper lines which Ma Bell refuses to replace), and elimination of our third-party conferencing service. Should also be a fun project. I can't wait to get rid of our old Nortel BCM 400. This project will fully utilize last summer's project where we ran fibre backhauls from all the key points in our facility to the server room (eliminated all the daisy chaining between switches on Cat5), put new managed switches in all the locations, a new core switch, and implemented VLANs.
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Doing more work with Chef today. Got three new Chef books in the weekend Chef sale too!
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@Dashrender said:
Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1
Any more info on this project? Want to know how you are getting on, did you put anything online for geeks like me to read?
Love VMware stuff, and love hearing how virtualisation projects are coming along.
Thanks,
G.
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Not much to read really, Plus I've never been a blogger.
But to answer your questions:
The new server is deployed with ESXi 5.5 u1, it currently has 2 VMs on it -
Win 2012R2 (AD, DNS, DHCP, Printers, File shares) I've migrated our primary network share to this machine with little issue, soon need to migrate the homedirs.
I'm having an issue with my printers though. The printers that can print double sided Do and I can't seem to change the default to single sided - work in progress.
Win 2012R2 test VMI've deployed about 15 of the new computers so far. Images created using Clonezilla/sysprep. I did spend about 3 weeks creating GPOs that would remove local admin rights, while at the same time allowing ActiveX controls to be installed by websites we trust. Also learning how to deploy printers via GPO (man that really slows down login times!).
Since I'm a one man shop I'm lucky if I get to spend 50% of my time working on this project so it's slow and steady...
