Category Archives: SysAdmin

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Managing Local Admins using GPP

Posted on 13 November, 2009 by Daniel

This is a brain dump of something Alan Burchill and Lilia Gutnik presented at TechEd Australia 2009. It covers managing local administrators on your workstations using the power of Group Policy Preferences. Create a new GPO if necessary, link it … Continue reading →

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How to install a Windows-CA-Signed Certificate on VMWare Server 2.0x

Posted on 16 April, 2009 by Daniel

Make a backup of /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.crt and rui.key Generate a new server key: openssl genrsa -out rui.key 2048 Generate a CSR: openssl req -new -key rui.key -out server.csr Go to the Certificate Services web interface on one of your DCs, and … Continue reading →

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Mini Brain Dump: IP Subnet Change Considerations

Posted on 16 October, 2008 by Daniel

I’ve been sitting on this post for a long time, and intended to write a more detailed description. Here are some things you may need to consider (outside of the obvious like DHCP scopes, DNS server settings, Firewall settings & … Continue reading →

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mRemote: A Remote Connections Manager

Posted on 16 October, 2008 by Daniel

This tool should be a part of any self-respecting SysAdmin’s toolkit. mRemote is “a full-featured, open source, multi-tab remote connections manager”. What does this mean?, you say. It means you’ve got one neat console where you can manage all your … Continue reading →

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Update: Deploying MYOB Premier via MSI

Posted on 13 October, 2008 by Daniel

I recently figured out a better way to get MYOB Premier to deploy via MSI that the previous method that I posted. This method basically stops the MSI from checking if it’s been run by a bootstrapper (Setup.exe). I’ve tested … Continue reading →

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