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Jason Short
Jason Short
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Jason Short replied to Cody Harlow's discussion 'How to start out in system adminstration?'
I agree with that. The best teacher is experience. Painful, painful experience. :)
Jul 1, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Cody Harlow's discussion 'How to start out in system adminstration?'
Computer Science will be more about theory and programming than about system administration. I find that most of what I learned (I have a CS degree) does not directly apply to the sysadmin world, BUT having some idea of what's going on…
Jun 29, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Graycat's discussion 'Archiving'
I've had a pretty good experience with GFI Mailarchiver. For the most part it seems to "just work". (Knock on wood - I probably just set myself up for a massive failure :) ) http://www.gfi.com/mailarchiver
May 16, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Administrative Rights'
I'm jealous that you're getting to eliminate it - must be fun! It's the same with us. It's always the line of business applications that are the real trouble. Because at the end of the day, we do have to help people get real work…
May 13, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Dan Taylor's discussion 'Administrative Rights'
We've got ~ 300 users, with maybe 3-4 having admin rights. (Not counting system admins - though we run with regular accounts normally. Of course it's easy for us to elevate when we need to.) Our reasons are primarily security related,…
May 11, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Graycat's discussion 'iPhones in the enterprise*'
We have a relatively small deployment of iPhones - probably < 30. They really seem to just work - point it at the OWA server and put in your password. Probably the biggest problem we have is people changing their Windows passwords but not…
Apr 30, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Richard Holloway's discussion 'Backing up Windows PCs on a very small network'
BKFs are inconvenient, but not [completely] worthless. To do a bare metal restore, you have to install the OS again, then restore the BKF file(s). Restoring them to a machine with different hardware would be involved but probably doable with enough…
Apr 28, 2010
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Jason Short commented on Tsahy Shapsa's blog post 'Are you SICK of trying to figure out “Whose Data Is It Anyway?”'
Assuming you're on Windows, AR and F sounds like a job for auditing object access, along with something like GFI Events Manager to notify you when something interesting happens. (I'm not associated with GFI, other than using their software…
Apr 16, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Kev Gallagher's discussion 'Update Management'
We use WSUS to manage Windows updates. Workstations get them at night and reboot automatically. We don't do any "formal" testing, but they get deployed to a small group of workstations before getting pushed to the whole…
Mar 21, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Graycat's discussion 'Deploying Desktops'
We use two different images that cover most of the software we use, and customize them if necessary. (For example, the marketing department needs Photoshop, etc. But for three workstations, it's not worth maintaining a separate image) We have…
Feb 5, 2010
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Jason Short replied to Charlie Rudinger's discussion 'Certification Traning / Testing'
1. They'll often pay for books, and reimburse for the exam if you pass (now that's incentive). Assuming it's something actually relevant to your job. I probably couldn't get a cert in "basket weaving with thicknet…
Jan 22, 2010
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Jason Short commented on Jason Short's blog post 'Do what I want....'
At least on our workstations, they'll run fine for a few minutes (say, 10 or 20). Just long enough for you check them after a reboot and think that they're running fine. Shortly, they'll show symptoms of the kernel running out of…
Jan 21, 2010
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Elizabeth Ayer commented on Jason Short's blog post 'Do what I want....'
Great post, Jason. So can you tell us -- what exactly >did< happen in this case? Please, give us all the gory details! What was the end effect, and was there anything that could be done to fix it?
Jan 20, 2010
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Do what I want....

And not what I tell you to do!Pop quiz:What does the following Powershell script do?$MachineName = '.'$reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $MachineName)$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey("SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Memory Management",$true)$regkey.SetValue('PagedPoolSize','FFFFFFFF')Answer:Cause pandemonium, as it turns out.If the registry key already exists, the SetValue method helpfully converts it to the appropriate type (String, Binary…See More
Blog post by Jason Short Jan 20, 2010
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Wesley "Nonapeptide" left a comment for Jason Short
Neat. I'm getting exposure to PowerShell, but only in an Exchange 2007 context. I'm hoping to get into Python some day and try to shoehorn that into a Windows environment... but maybe I should just go for PS and be done with it. =)
Jan 20, 2010
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Jason Short left a comment for Jason Short
Powershell is my favorite. VBscript if I must (and I often must), good ol' batch files if I'm doing something simple, or Bash if I'm doing something Linux-ey. So, whatever gets the job done!
Jan 20, 2010

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Sr System Admin
Tech Interests - e.g. Virtualisation? Cisco? Etc.
Virtualisation, automation, scripting

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Jason Short

Do what I want....

And not what I tell you to do!



Pop quiz:



What does the following Powershell script do?



$MachineName = '.'

$reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $MachineName)

$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey("SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Memory Management",$true)

$regkey.SetValue('PagedPoolSize','FFFFFFFF')







Answer:

Cause pandemonium, as it turns out.



If the registry key… Continue

Posted on January 20, 2010 at 3:37am — 2 Comments

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At 1:41pm on January 19, 2010, Wesley "Nonapeptide"Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
Hello Jason! Always nice to have a scripter in the mix. What language to you script in?
At 2:52am on January 20, 2010, Jason ShortJason Short said…
Powershell is my favorite. VBscript if I must (and I often must), good ol' batch files if I'm doing something simple, or Bash if I'm doing something Linux-ey. So, whatever gets the job done!
At 2:59am on January 20, 2010, Wesley "Nonapeptide"Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
Neat. I'm getting exposure to PowerShell, but only in an Exchange 2007 context. I'm hoping to get into Python some day and try to shoehorn that into a Windows environment... but maybe I should just go for PS and be done with it. =)

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