Rodd Young's Page

"Hi All, We went through some major changes to our data structure fairly recently and decided on the following: Corp Level + Deparrtment Level + Group + Management + Public This was set as the base level structure for all Corp Data. AD Groups were…"

"Hi All, I work in a Local Government organisation and we to have been looking into the implementation of VDI for much the same reasons as Zac has stated above. So far the only exception to this for us would be our high end users, ie Engineers that…"

"We havn't had a need to add aliases in dns as yet, although we have done some P2V and then hosted them on another VMWare Server. It was only our old financial systems, so all we did was update the shortcuts on the network to point to the new…"

"Much better than a previuos place I worked at where they named them after fish like mullet, schnapper and whitting As you can guess he was a mad keen fisherman. More recently (thank god) they started naming them after Star Wars characters...now…"

"Hi Matt, For Desktops and Laptops we used to use the Dell Service tags numbers for ease of auditing( we now have software for this). More recently though we have gone to a Positional Machine Name. ie FINICTSA First 3 letters is the Directoratethe…"

"Hi All, This being my first post on the site go easy on me.... We break our server/infrastructure names into 3 parts ie VMDSS01: VM indicates that it is Virtual Infrastructure DSS - Domain Support Services (DNS DHCP etc) 01 - 1st server…"

"Like Julian I was a member of SAGE-AU, I took up a trial 12 month membership. At the end of the day I didn't see much benefit in having the membership. It was more or less a discussion forum which are freely available such as this."