Jemimus on May 7th, 2010

One of our batch of Lenovo T500 laptops refuses to boot from our Windows Deployment PXE server. So not easy to get our default company image into it. Hard to explain to Lenovo support what is wrong cause its so very specific. All other network functions are just fine. My colleague ran [...]

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admin on July 7th, 2008

This Saterday, we switched the subnet over, and moved all the remain criticle systems over to a new serverroom across the country.
I didnt get to make as many pics as I liked, and no video, this was mainly cause I was so bussy of course.
Half the pics below are curtesy of Arnold.

Back of [...]

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admin on July 4th, 2008

A tour of the current state of the office, and one of the server rooms, where most racks are now empty or near-empty.

An Epic moment. Gert-Jan uninstalls Citrix on the last 2 servers in the farm, effectively ending 6 years of the 2000-user, 60-server Metaframe XP Citrix farm that served our Netherlands users. I would [...]

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admin on July 3rd, 2008

Spent today going over some cabling details mostly. Its strange how stressed we all became over these little details, while we will have larger issues to worry about on the day.

(high res)
During the move, we will be moving the Voip servers, RF-Controllers (used by various sites to do handheld-scanning), an Authentication server, the Wyse-Terminal (thin [...]

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admin on June 30th, 2008

This is more or less how its gonna be. All the bits are now in place, half the rack stuff has been put in place already, the last stuff goes in coming Vriday.

One of the biggest oversights we made was with power requirements. If you want redundant power for a lot of servers, you need [...]

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