WTH

I would just like to thank LGF for this. You had me at hello..., tear.

Active Directory Project update

We moved over our Customer Service and IT staff to the new domain last Tuesday. It's been a couple days of clean-up and minor problems. I had wanted to accomplish two secondary tasks with this move.

First - Our password policy is atrocious and it would be embarrassing to even describe it. We will now be forcing all of our users to abide in a new strong password policy that was adopted by the company.

Second - The other task involves workstation administration. When NTFS permissions became common place on workstations several years back, my company decided to start granting "domain users" local administrator rights to clear up problems with programs needed modify rights for certain areas of the HDD. This has lead to pirated software, mis-configured computers and large security holes on our network. Unfortunately, this issue still exists and will not be able to be fixed at the present time. I guess I will add it to the project list

Damn....I missed it.

I will be celebrating this next year.

Login Scripts

I was trying to determine how I wanted users to run their login scripts when they are moved over to the 2003 domain. I decided to not use group policy at this point and just utilized the user account properties. My accounts are segregated nicely by OU which makes the advantages of GP closer to nil. I also decided to use WScript instead of the old DOS way of coding login scripts. This website had some great simple coding examples

I want one

OK. This has got to be the coolest thing I've ever seen. I want one for Christmas. Click the picture to go to the Moller International.

Active Directory Project update

I've decided to move forward with the Active Directory project using 2003. I was going to wait until the file server I was migrating was done, but I'm waiting on others to get me information on certain files and folders and that mini project is dragging. I'm start converting our customer service department over to AD as they make useful lab rats. In all fairness I'll include the IT staff in the process so we can all share the pain.

Housekeeping

What is with people and not cleaning up their files. We are in the process of migrating our main file server over to a newer box. This old file server has been around since the invention of dirt and never has had a clear organization about it. This has led to files after files that no one has any idea about. I just found HR documents that aren't secured and are wide open for anyone to look at. I also just discovered that I'm being paid $20,000/year less than the rest of my colleagues. Time to upgrade that resume.