This week, Jerry is back from the dead, we discuss Andy’s upcoming mega site visit and talk AD & Lync.
Jerry back from the dead
- Icinga – open source monitoring system
- PPTP setup on Linux
- Ansible – Configuration management
- Outgoing brute force attacks
Andy’s audacious intervention
Before:
The plan:
- Sort the network out
- Set up users on the new NAS box
- Set up different share on the NAS box for different purposes (effectively different partitions)
RAID levels
- RAID0 – striping across drives
- RAID1 – Mirror across drives
- RAID5 – Distributed parity
- JBOD – Just a Bunch of Disks
- RAID10/RAID50 – Striping and Mirroring
RAID is not backup
What happens when you RAID 24 SSD drives?
Backups
- Offsite – in case the office burns down
- Synology Sync
- Crashplan
Careful with that ACT database, Andy!
Remote access
Al’s discoveries
- Lync
- Domain Name Best Practice for AD
- After November 1, 2015 Certificates for Internal Names Will No Longer Be Trusted
- Exchange 2013 namespace (unbound and bound)
- Windows+I,(Windows+d)+(Alt-F4)
- Trello
Miscellaneous discussion
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