I spent a some time configuring the Eventlog-to-Syslog service on my domain controllers, yesterday. A bunch of that time was spent trying to figure out why the service wasn’t able to read the config file I had created. The upshot is that I had installed a 32-bit version of my text editor of choice. When [...]
After seven years of providing robust file service hosted on a NetApp filer, we’ve decided to migrate our services to native Windows File Services. We have encountered several issues with the interaction of newer Windows client operating systems and NetApp’s third-party implementation of CIFS and SMB2. We did meet with some staff from various units [...]
We use BIND for our DNS, and allow certain systems to perform dynamic DNS registration. This arrangement has worked well for years. When I started deploying Server 2008 R2, I noticed that they weren’t registering PTR records. At the same time, I noticed a bunch of errors that seemed to indicate that Dynamic DNS wasn’t [...]
Geoffrey Duke
Sr. System Administrator,
University of Vermont