Inland Empire office

So, the new So. Calif office that we integrated into our network last summer that I last blogged about in September is finally moving.  We are racking the server in a 4' Dell rack and removing the Enterasys C2G124-24 switch (total overkill) from their office and replacing it with a Enterasys D2G124-12 switch.  This is Enterasys' workgroup switch which will be fine for this downsized office (5 people).  It's also friggin quiet.  I've got it right next to me and I don't hear a thing.  The only negative that I have is the power supply is external so I've got this fairly large supply that I'll have to find a home in the rack somewhere.  Maybe the rack mount kit for the switch will have something for it.  
We are also supplying a rackmount APC UPS that has been hanging around the storeroom since we replaced it with our mongo 5 hour battery backup.  The C2G switch that is currently there will be moved back to our Orange County office and made part of the stack.
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VNC

I've been using UltraVNC for awhile now to remote control my machines.  It's fast, easy to install and I like the added security of using my windows usernames for authentication.  I went to install the new version (1.0.5) however and was pretty disappointed.  It wouldn't save my password or my ms logon groups and wouldn't let me close down the admin properties if I hit cancel.  I'm not sure what the problem is but I'm going to install a older version I know works for the time being.
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Backup Exec and Domino Agent

OK, so here it the update from Symantec regarding my issue with backing up a domino agent.  Just for review, on a couple domino machines out of about 10 I would experience my domino agent crashing,  My Domino admin console would give out a c:\program files\symantec\backup exec\raws\belnapi.exe <2224/ox8B0> error about every minute and all backup jobs (obviously) would cease.  I have to reboot my machine (not just restart service) to every get the domino agent to even think about functioning as planned.  Anyway, the Symantec engineer has basically said......don't run your domino backup jobs through a policy-based job.  You must run a non-policy based job to get the functionality that I want.  So now I have to rebuild all of my jobs (for all 10 servers). I hate Backup Exec.
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WSUS clients not reporting status 0x80190194

Had a bear of a time with WSUS.  I noticed that my machines were no longer reporting back to the server with any kind of status.  I uninstalled, reinstalled to no avail.  My windows update log was giving me a http://server/selfupdate/wuident.cab: error 0x80190194 which lead me to The WSUS Support Team Blog.  Their article here summed up the problem nicely, but I still don't know what happened to break it in the first place.
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WTH

Another in my series of mind-blowing musicians that make me wet my pants.
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This is going to be a day of music apparantly. From my friend Mike, I give you the 12 days of christmas

blogroll

My new favorite blog.  Chock full of good stuff for your humble network administrator. This one is going on the blogroll and my rss reader.
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Cisco devices authenticated back to AD

So for awhile now I've known that I need to setup up authentication for command line access for our routers and switches.  I hadn't bothered because, 1. We are a smallish shop, 2. I can easily memorize a 24 digit hexadecimal password, 3. I'm lazy.  I finally got around to it and used this article by David Davis to help me out quite a bit.  When you used this crib sheet however, you never were able to get to privileged mode with your supplied credentials.  I then found this article that layed it out nicely.  
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