I’ve got roughly 2000 student accounts made, but put the final 1000 or so on hold until I could figure out why students couldn’t log into webaccess. Turns out I made a boo boo in the groupwise system and the secondary MTA which was running on linux wasn’t talking to the primary domain. I got that sorted out tonight to my delight. Due to running NDS 8.85c last school year on my production tree, I had to run the secondary domain on a secondary eDirectory tree running on the linux box. We just grafted it over to the old tree. It’s a bubble gum and duct tape work around, but I’m not about to change what’s working now. It’s too late in the summer for that. During winter break, I’ll get a groupwise guy in here and we’ll rip out webaccess and do a fresh install with gw 7sp1.

This blog is all screwed up now because of spam. The database is corrupt. I’m going to move it over to wordpress with anti spam pluggins when I have a free moment. Spammers need to be stabbed with a rusty spoon.

My office is an absolute sty. I love it.]]>

Like I said, next week is inservice. I’ve made sure to clear my schedule of any projects not needed for the start of school. I probably won’t be doing anything fun for the next few weeks.

I did get a replacement for my Proliant ML110 which was my backup server. I got an ML310 and a RAID card for our MSA/20. Just dropped the drives into the new box and Server 2003 sorted it all out. I didn’t config the MSA yet. That’s something I’ll do whenever I have free time. In the mean time, I took the ML110 and made it my workstation. It’s got more umph than my previous workstation, which will help when I create user accounts next week. I had to hunt and peck for drivers though since it doesn’t officially support XP according to HP’s driver section.

I’ll say this much though, graphics companies seem to make the worst drivers for hardware. ATI’s install software didn’t even work. Too much bloat. I just need a core driver that actually works. I don’t need some sort of control center. All it ever ends up doing is gludging up the works. ]]>

And as an aside, I had about 100 spam comments on this site. I can’t imagine how much time is wasted cleaning up SPAM worldwide.

I’ve had my HP MSA/20 racked up for a couple weeks now. Turns out the controller card I got didn’t fit my server. So I ordered a new one. That one I ordered, isn’t compatible with the MSA. Now I’m doing a second RMA on the controller card and buying a new server. Hopefully I’ll be able to pull the hard drives out of the existing server, plug them right in, and fire up the new server with minimal problems(Windows Server 2003). ]]>

I wrote instructions on creating user accounts using iManager 2.6, which is the replacement for NWAdmin for the people out in the field, on our internal wiki. I’ve been really pushing the wiki on our tech people lately. It’s a great resource and tool. It just really needs to be worked into the culture so people will use it, and maybe even contribute to it. ]]>