What's Your Current Project?
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Migrated DHCP the MS way yesterday.
In the past I would have lowered my leases to something like 15 mins, and stopped until the normal lease time had passed (say 8 days).
Then (maybe in the meantime) created the scopes on the new server with all required settings.
Disabled the old DHCP server.
Grant rights to the new DHCP server
Enable the new DHCP server, test a few clients using ipconfig /release - /renew.
remove rights from the old DHCP server.
Uninstall DHCP from the old server if desired.Instead I was able to skip the waiting period since the migration process brought all of the lease information over to the new machine, withwise it was pretty much the same.
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At work my current project is finishing up deploying some new reports to our SSRS server. Then I have to go back through and inventory everything on there and update/remove anything identified as outdated or unused. I want to get that done soon because coming up in the next week or so we'll be doing some major system changes that will consume the team of everyone on my IS team.
Outside of my actual job my major project is designing and deploying the website for my Awkward Gamer series and also learning the point of, and then using, Twitter for my series as well. I figure it's about time I actually utilize social media to try and get slightly more attention to my web series.
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Yes. Up until now I think you've been relying on the @ashbot promotion network for that:)
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OK I've tossed another on my plate - learn to deploy all required settings via GP (GPP and IEAK for IE) and if possible remove the requirement to grant users local admin rights for web application use (i.e. install ActiveX controls without needing local Admin rights)
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A recent ML post has me building out AD in my second lab site and testing out DIrectAccess. Beyond that, I'm toying with the idea of writing an AWS Server 2012 optimization script.
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@Nara said:
A recent ML post has me building out AD in my second lab site and testing out DIrectAccess. Beyond that, I'm toying with the idea of writing an AWS Server 2012 optimization script.
ML is starting to have some influence, I see
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Hummm Projects...
- Migrate some storage from physical to Virtual - Not the server yet though...
- Install some 2012 R2 Servers and have them be the New AD Domain, DNS DHCP
- Remove some of the older 2003 Physical boxes
- Attempt to Remove more Commvault from my Life... - still like the email stubbing but exch2010+ has that if I want to purchase enterprise cals I guess
-- commvault server move to virtual, but keep tape drive functionality for email archiving / compliance - the make sure veeam has tape aux option as well. - move my Veeam Server from Physical to Virtual (uninstall - reinstall probably)
- VoIP Elastix - while keeping our existing system in place - putting that one off... Server looks Easy... phones / softphones have no idea!
- Complain about my choice of firewall - thinking I should have gone another direction, x300 works but is loud and QoS is odd
- upgrade some older systems to SSD's - leave XP on 1 / two of them the others are old systems running Win 7 but want them on SSDs to give them a little longer life. (that shouldn't be too difficult - trick is imaging to non-identical size drives for low/no cost imaging - clonezilla doesn't like different size drives)
-- Projects that have been completed recently - for others
- New Virtualization Server ESXi Free 5.5, and be able to manage from vsphere 5.5 client from a virtual host DC (tricky)
- Move / Change DC from physical to virtual, demote the older ones
- Exchange 2007 > Virtual Exchange 2007 (they didn't want to spend money for 2010 when they didn't need it)
- Various system reloads/upgrades/SSD installs
Think that covers about 25% of my headaches lately...
Heading over to Vegas next week to look at tech and security stuff... (might be nice to see that metal 3D Printing System)(Home Project List is HUGE)
- New Exterior
New Windows
New Flooring for ~ 1,500sqft (possibly some subflooring as well)
New Bathroom - since its currently just studs
New Front Yard... currently weeds / dead things + fixing sprinkler lines / valves - stupid system - wish nest or someone had a nice web managed system... (saw one last year - too much money)
Roof - Repairs and better flashing all around
New Exterior Doors - going from several single pane glass doors to nicer Low-e
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That is a LOT of projects
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Forgot Vacation... that has now become a project instead of a plan...
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@BC said:
Forgot Vacation... that has now become a project instead of a plan...
Mine keeps getting pushed off. Was going to England in May, that's been cancelled. Then was going to go to the Caribbean this year, had to cancel that too. I'm sticking to my guns about the Italy trip in the fall, though.
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this was our weekend project.
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Very nice. Now my wife will be jealous as we have no yard at all.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Very nice. Now my wife will be jealous as we have no yard at all.
one of the main reasons we bought this house. An acre in the middle of city limits. Live oak tree and 4 pecan trees. And it's got a big office that in itself is a project I need to tackle. Dirty.
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Very nice. We have no lawn at all and park in a parking lot
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@scottalanmiller said:
Very nice. We have no lawn at all and park in a parking lot
sorry dude. setup the watering system today
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Last weekend I cut into my water main to install a two for a sprinkler system.
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Tonight I did two disk space extensions where existing partitions had to be expanded in place. Then I got my girls to help me clean the house while the wife was out grocery shopping.
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@scottalanmiller finished y'all.
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Oh very nice. I like the walkway.
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On Friday I wrapped up coding/testing on some new scripts for our shop floor production reporting system. It uses this proprietary language with a dialect similar to VB. One of my primary tasks was to modify our PO Receiving process so it utilizes ASN data from EDI-enabled vendors. Now, rather than operators having to type/scan details off the paperwork (and inevitably making mistakes), I coded it to automatically key the entire transaction based on an ID # that's scanned off our vendor's inventory barcode label. The operator's new procedure (at least for vendors we're receiving ASNs from) is to simply scan the barcode label, verify the data on the screen, our inventory label prints, and the transaction done. Should be very slick. I also did a number of workflow improvements based on feedback from the operators on the shop floor. All of this will roll out Tuesday morning. I did an overly cautious amount of testing so it should go well (knock on wood)
Also on Friday I received approval for a new phone system so I will be getting the ball rolling on that next week. We're going with Switchvox (commercial Asterisk system from Digium.) 50 handsets across the office and manufacturing plant. This will yield us about $1,000/month in immediate savings thanks to conversion from PRI to SIP trunking, elimination of backup analog lines for the PRI (because it randomly drops calls due to the poor quality of our underground copper lines which Ma Bell refuses to replace), and elimination of our third-party conferencing service. Should also be a fun project. I can't wait to get rid of our old Nortel BCM 400. This project will fully utilize last summer's project where we ran fibre backhauls from all the key points in our facility to the server room (eliminated all the daisy chaining between switches on Cat5), put new managed switches in all the locations, a new core switch, and implemented VLANs.
