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  • Snow Leopard Client And Active Directory

    In the midst of our migration to Active Directory, we’ve run into a snag… To set the stage – We were forced to stand up a “temporary” AD Domain (running on Server 2008 R2) for a copier project with the understanding that our “real” AD Domain would take over duties for the temp. No biggie. After […]

  • Yowza

    Been a while since I’ve even checked on this site… Lots of changes for the work side of things. We finally upgraded our Zimbra install – I’ve been thinking about writing up the process, but don’t know if it makes a difference now. We migrated hardware and upgraded to version 7 and since Zimbra is […]

  • Speaking Of Xserves

    We’re still running Zimbra at work and it’s still providing us with what we need as a collaboration suite. Unfortunately, we’re running on Leopard Server and still stuck on version 5 due to Apple’s unwillingness to fix the bugs in their server software. Which is why we’ll be migrating from the Xserve to an Ubuntu […]

  • On A Happier Note

    I finally got our authentication/home directories deployed. Running on Xserves. The same Xserves that Apple discontinued 8 months ago. <Sigh>

  • HP Breaks Up With WebOS Devices

    Today’s news that HP is discontinuing WebOS devices breaks my heart. I’m the proud owner of a launch day Palm Pre running on Sprint. I moved to the Pre from a Treo which had faithfully met my needs until the screen started losing it’s mind. It took a day for me to get used to […]

  • WordPress Install

    I decided awhile ago to switch I/O from Movable Type to WordPress after doing the same on another site of mine. The other site was a clean install with no content carried over and took about 30 minutes from WP download to being content with the results. Making the switch here took a little longer […]

  • Call For Assistance

    If there are any OS X Server gurus out there, I’m having issues with Tiger client Netinstall images and Leopard server. They just don’t work! The machines netboot just fine and look like they’re going to image properly but the installation ends after 3 seconds with a “Software successfully installed” message. The only thing that’s […]

  • Zimbra Update

    Just a quick note: We rolled out Zimbra back in October to our 2,000+ users with some last minute account insanity. Aside from quickly adding over one hundred last minute accounts, the roll out was a success. We’ve had a few issues since then, but nothing major and all issues were addressed by Zimbra’s support […]

  • Zimbra External Directory Sync

    One of the first problems I had to resolve after installing Zimbra, was how to keep Zimbra’s internal LDAP directory in sync with our Open Directory server. This problem was compounded by the fact that out of the box, all Zimbra mail boxes have to be provisioned by hand. Granted, there are command line tools […]

  • Just Curious

    This one is for any other sysadmins that happen to stumble across this blog… Our school district has the worst data management possible. We have had active email accounts for people who haven’t worked for us in years. It’s that bad. Actually it’s worse (although I don’t know if this counts as worse)… We have […]

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