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Over the past month I managed to upgrade our KMS server, so we can now license both Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
Though I spent most of the month working on various issues/mini projects for the ECS team. Ending the month with building the newly purchased em05, and rebuilding em04 so that it could utilize the additional RAM that was purchased… Gotta hate it when you build a server with 32 GB and only install Standard, then decided you need more RAM. Anyway, two mailbox servers down, eight or so go.
I spent quite a bit of time after hours setting up lab environment at the house, so that I can both work on my 2008 R2 skills, and to assist automating our build process. So far I’ve gotten my 2008 R2 AD setup, and Windows Deployment services installed and configured. Hopefully next month I can test doing some OS pushes, and then investigate incorporating our default settings, firewall rules, application installs etc, into an automated package.
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I finished moving the SharePoint Test farm behind the F5, and setup SSL termination on the F5. Some of hte service monitors are not ideal, but as soon as I have some more time to spend on it, I should be able to get things setup properly. Then I can document the process, and start [...]
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Moved the test SharePoint farm moved behind the F5, though I still haven’t gotten it working yet. Mysites seem to work fine, but all the other sites, i.e. its, dar, etc don’t. I’ve spent a large portion of my time learning the F5 this month, and have had quite a bit of assistance from Peter [...]
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Well this month we finally managed to get all of our Wintel servers upgraded to ePO 4.0, sadly we still have one server that is still running VSE 8.0. Hopefully I can get that one upgraded to 8.5 this month, so I can close out that SWE as well.
I spent most of the month, preparing [...]
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We discovered this month that by default hibernation is enabled on all Windows 2008 installs. Thereby potentially consuming large amounts of disk space depending on the hardware in the server. As we discovered with our SharePoint servers, we had an 8GB hibernation file on each server. Fortunately this is easy to fix, by simply opening [...]
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Operations
Streamlined our server build process, and updated our build documentation accordingly. For both Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 I wrote some PowerShell scripts that utilize netsh to set all of our default firewall rules.
Also for Server 2008, I wrote some additional scripts that install all the Windows Features that we install by default, such as [...]
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Another month has come and gone, and again, I’ve spent most of the month working on SharePoint & ISA. Fortunately I do believe we’re actually getting close to a resolution. Maybe by the time I write up next months MARS, I can say the issue is resolved.
Determined that if you disable WebDAV and require Check [...]
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I’ve spent most of the month working on ISA, sadly it seems that every time we think we’re making progress, we find out we’ve broken something else.
At this point, I think we’re moving in the right direction. It appears that we’ve solved the issue with some Vista clients not being able to save a document [...]
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Lets see, what have I done this month…
Oh yeah, SharePoint, and a bit of ePO stuff as well.
Rebuilt the SharePoint test farm on the new Test Admin Network.
Spent countless hours either on the phone with Microsoft troubleshooting our file edit issues when using ISA.
Spent countless hours testing various scenarios and building and rebuilding Vista VM’s [...]
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I’ve spent the past month almost entirely on migrating all of our SharePoint servers from Windows 2003 R2 x64 to Windows 2008 x64. By the end of the month we will have finished three of the four SharePoint servers. The final Server will be migrated in January.
I’ve also spent quite a bit of time trying [...]