Implementing NI/AD – 10/14/2008

Let’s see.  How would I describe today?

Crazy.  Erratic.  Unexpected.  Not-normal.

But definitely fun.

We started out the day by having Rob Brumley’s ARDSA class come over and listen with us as my friend Scott Duvall from Holland CPAs gave a presentation on a day in his life as an IT administrator.  Scott, being the sole IT person at his business, definitely wears a lot of hats, both in the hardware (my area) and software (Rob’s) realm.

Afterwards, we started to work on Chapter 5, which dealt with network security.  What we soon discovered, however, was that the ultimate in security breaches had already occured to us.  Our “vacuum cleaner” server, the old Dell 600 MHz Pentium III I was using to run our root domain?  Yeah?  Its SCSI adaptor now can’t find the HDD array.  Without the root domain working, and without any kind of backup (you’d think I’d REALIZE this by now) we decided that the best course of action was to tear down the entire domain structure and start from scratch.  This was definitely a cool learning experience, and we ended up getting finished with one of the chapters (which, admittingly, was more than I thought we might get finished with today — with having to rebuild entire domains, and all).

Homework:

• Chapter Five: Review Questions