Recorded: January 2, 2011

Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:31:54

Topics/Links:

• MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • We discuss Chapters 4 and 6 - Servers and Data Centers
  • Designing servers for performance and reliability
  • Data Center Design - location, security, racks, wiring, tools, HVAC
• Killing IPv6 in your LAN environment

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Sorry folks.  Due to a household emergency, we’ve had to postpone the recording of the next Book Club segment scheduled for tonight.  We are hoping to re-schedule for some time over the weekend and will post/Tweet the info as soon as it’s available for anyone to participate.

I hope everyone had a great holiday and we look forward to getting back into the show.

Keith

Recorded: December 9, 2010
Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:10:20

Topics/Links:

• MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • We discuss Chapter 3 - Workstations
  • Understanding and knowing the ’state’ of your workstations
  • Automation, automation, automation
  • Maintaining your workstations - patching, application updates, diagnosing, repairing, state changes, etc.
  • Standardizing workstation builds and network configurations
• OpenFileViewer from Nirsoft
• 90% answers and when they’re wrong

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Recorded: November 11, 2010
Your Hosts: Keith Albright & Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:17:43

Topics/Links:

• MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • We discuss Chapter 2 - Climb Out Of The Hole
  • SiTracker - Support Incident Tracker software
  • TicketDesk - Support ticket software
  • Chapter 3 next to be discussed - date to be announced
• Debian guest on VMWare - NIC problem solved
• Exchange 2010 Transition - Several links in the show notes.

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Recorded: November 4, 2010
Your Hosts: Keith Albright
Show Length: 35:21

Topics/Links:

• MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • We’ll be starting our discussion with Chapter 2 on the live show Nov.11, 2010.  Read ahead and participate in the discussion.
• Thunderbird email client update
• PortableApps version of Thunderbird
• LSASS error on startup - reload registry from System Restore Point is the fix
• Unable to find eth0 interface in Debian VM on VMWare ESX
• SQL Records disappearing……possibly solved.

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Recorded: October 28, 2010
Your Hosts: Keith Albright & Steve Murawski
Show Length: 46:31

Topics/Links:

• MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • We’ll be starting our discussion with Chapter 2 on the live show Nov.11, 2010. Read ahead and participate in the discussion.
• Everything Sysadmin Blog
• Tweaking an app using the Borland DB Engine to work in Terminal Services environment
• Steady State for Windows 7 (NOTE: More resource links in the full show notes)
• HP PC’s spontaneously powering off
• Norton Power Eraser - Aggressive Anti-Virus/Malware tool
• Sys Administrivia Podcasts
• Stand Alone Sysadmin Blog

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Rescu.Me - Get out of that awkward with an urgent text or phone call.

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Recorded: October 7, 2010
Your Hosts: Keith Albright & Keith Kern
Show Length: 36:07

Topics/Links:

• Problem turning off Outlook Out-Of-Office Assistant
• Dropbox
• Blackberry Playbook tablet
• WSUS registration problem - duplicate SID’s
• Finding duplicate SID’s
• Animated GIF’s - love’em or hate’em?

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Recorded: September 23, 2010
Your Host: Keith Albright
Show Length: 28:54

Topics/Links:

• Network Design Dilemma - Multiple Gateways
• Converting DVD to Flash video for website
• Cryptarithmetic
• Permutations Macro
• Google Charts API
• Android SDK

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Shoot the Bear - funny viral video ad campaign

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Recorded: September 9, 2010
Your Host: Keith Albright
Show Length: 26:16

Topics/Links:

• Promise VessRAID iSCSI Storage Appliance
• BackupExec problem - Sector size on destination drive causing problems backing up Exchange Logs
• Main Backup server died - primarily used with DFS to mirror main site
• Epson Workforce 520 AIO
• TWAIN SANE

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Recorded: September 2, 2010
Your Host: Keith Albright
Show Length: 33:47

Topics/Links:

• Prey Project - PC tracking and recovery
• Trick to restore iMac from Time Machine backup
• Deleting Forms Cache in Outlook - solved two problems
• WSUS Server problems
• TrueCrypt disk encryption

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• Adran Otto’s Blog - Adrian discusses a great new DB platform called /dev/null. Sarcasm added for your enjoyment.

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