New Hosting Provider!

Thanks to the folks @ NeoSurge for my new VPS! Hopefully the site will be far more stable than my previous provider/VPS combo.

Sendmail - Masquerading multiple domains

I have a little VPS that is used as platform for POP'ing and SMTP relaying for internal projects and testing.  Originally it was all setup under a single domain and I had turned on masquerading.  However I needed to add another domain for a different project.

Perl Script - Active Directory Password Expiration

There are alot of reasons to use Active Directory (AD) for your central authentication needs.  On a corporate AD network though, there may be some non-windows users that will not get the friendly password expiration reminders when they login to their systems.  Subsequently these users will get locked out when their password exipres.

CNAME / A with MX Records

Stumbled into an issue again today that has come up a few times for me, so I figured I will right out the reason for this as a friendly reminder.

The Scenario:

Fix - GotoMeeting Could not Connect

Had a very odd issue with GotoMeeting client on a Laptop PC.  The client refused to connect so the user could attend an online meeting.  It was acting like it had no network connection.

RealTek HD Audio and Windows7

I finally got around to rebuilding my primary desktop PC.  In addition to adding the second harddrive and creating a RAID1 configuration, I took the leap to Windows7.  Now my main desktop and my new Aspire Aspire Nettop media PC (review to come) run Windows7 on my home LAN.

Tip - DSADD and DSMOD Commands

Problem

Adding a large group of new Active Directory (AD) users and add them to a group.

Solution

Using DSADD and DSMOD command line options in a batch script.

Knowing the command syntax and having a Excel Spreadsheet of the User information, I created a bulk list of commands I executed by "batch" script.

Which gaming system do you own?

Error - NSClient Counter Errors

***** Nagios *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM

Service: CPU Load
Host: BALLYs DBA-1
Address: ballys.hubteam.local
State: UNKNOWN

Date/Time: Mon Dec 28 12:53:20 CST 2009
Duration: 0d 0h 2m 1s
Additional Info:
NSClient - ERROR: Could not get data for 5 perhaps we dont collect data this far back?

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GoogleApps BES Connector Evaluation

* I believe there has been a revision or two released since our evalutation.