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Shawn Anderson
Shawn Anderson
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  • Layton, UT
  • United States
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Wesley "Nonapeptide" left a comment for Shawn Anderson
Mail doesn't take long to get from up there to here. I send and receive snail mail from Grand Junction CO and it takes one to two days. They must supercharge the carrier pigeons.
Jan 24, 2011
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Shawn Anderson commented on Wesley "Nonapeptide"'s photo
LOL - thanks Wesley. Man, that got there fast. We just shipped out last Thursday I think. Thanks for letting us know. Cheers!
Jan 24, 2011
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Wesley "Nonapeptide" left a comment for Shawn Anderson
I just got my Admin Arsenal Polo shirt today! Thanks! I'll wear it to my next MSFT geek-out here in Phoenix. ;) http://www.sysadmin-network.com/photo/admin-arsenal-polo-shirt
Jan 24, 2011
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Remotely Install Office 2010 - Part 1 - Office Customization Tool

Prior to remotely installing Office 2010 to your company, you'll want to run the admin tool, also known as the Office Customization Tool.We have a video which demonstrates using the Office Customization Wizard. We'll also show a…See More
Blog post by Shawn Anderson Sep 2, 2010
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Shawn Anderson replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
Bear in mind that hard and fast policies can become valuable information to hackers. Quarterly patching may be convenient, but when you have a serious patch, including zero day and out of cycle patches, then the knowledge of your quarterly patching…
Aug 23, 2010
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Wesley "Nonapeptide" left a comment for Shawn Anderson
I dug out the password for my Dell Ideastorm account and voted up the Dell vs. Dominos idea. Let's see if we can create a groudswell! I'll post something about this on my blog.
Mar 2, 2010
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Kinda cool. A link to my blog article on Dell Server vs. Dominos Pizza made it onto Dell's feature request website. http://bit.ly/cFSPLi
Status posted by Shawn Anderson Feb 26, 2010
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Shawn Anderson commented on Shawn Anderson's blog post 'Reboot With Pride'
Good to hear, Albert. It's OK to be proud of Microsoft. Most Unix admins wouldn't have their jobs today if it weren't for the efforts of brother Gates. I'm fortunate that I get to live in the land of Windows, Mac, and Unix, so I…
May 6, 2009
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Albert Widjaja commented on Shawn Anderson's blog post 'Reboot With Pride'
Ah, it is such an encouraging article for me to read :-) I've been living as a sheep in a wolf land by being Windows Admin myself and after I read this article, I am now becoming more confident in what I'm doing now. Cheers.
May 6, 2009
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Reboot With Pride

There is an old saying used by the US Navy submarine forces; "we hide with pride". Let's take this page from their playbook and apply it to our roles as system administrators. Reboot with pride.Photo by ori2uruIn the past, rebooting a computer, especially a server, seemed to be almost an admission of guilt. For two decades Unix administrators have been…See More
Blog post by Shawn Anderson Apr 28, 2009
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Know Thy Exit Code

(Photo by Loui Loui)I was deploying some custom software today and discovered that even though the application was encountering errors and failing, it was not sending a non-zero exit code. It was just ending with zero. This can be a real pain when deploying software. Sometimes (and by sometimes I mean always) you need to know if the software was…See More
Blog post by Shawn Anderson Apr 10, 2009
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Shawn Anderson is now a member of The SysAdmin Network Mar 3, 2009

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Co-founder
Tech Interests - e.g. Virtualisation? Cisco? Etc.
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Shawn Anderson's Blog

Shawn Anderson

Remotely Install Office 2010 - Part 1 - Office Customization Tool

Prior to remotely installing Office 2010 to your company, you'll want to run the admin tool, also known as the Office Customization Tool.

We have a video which demonstrates using the Office Customization Wizard. We'll also…

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Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:57am

Shawn Anderson

Reboot With Pride

There is an old saying used by the US Navy submarine forces; "we hide with pride". Let's take this page from their playbook and apply it to our roles as system administrators. Reboot with pride.

Photo by ori2uru
In the past, rebooting a computer, especially a server, seemed to be almost an admission… Continue

Posted on April 28, 2009 at 10:03pm — 2 Comments

Shawn Anderson

Know Thy Exit Code

(Photo by Loui Loui)
I was deploying some custom software today and discovered that even though the application was encountering errors and failing, it was not sending a non-zero exit code. It was just ending with zero. This can be a real pain when deploying software. Sometimes (and by… Continue

Posted on April 10, 2009 at 4:30am

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At 12:55am on March 2, 2010, Wesley "Nonapeptide"Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
I dug out the password for my Dell Ideastorm account and voted up the Dell vs. Dominos idea. Let's see if we can create a groudswell! I'll post something about this on my blog.
At 10:40pm on January 24, 2011, Wesley "Nonapeptide"Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
I just got my Admin Arsenal Polo shirt today! Thanks! I'll wear it to my next MSFT geek-out here in Phoenix. ;)

http://www.sysadmin-network.com/photo/admin-arsenal-polo-shirt
At 10:53pm on January 24, 2011, Wesley "Nonapeptide"Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
Mail doesn't take long to get from up there to here. I send and receive snail mail from Grand Junction CO and it takes one to two days. They must supercharge the carrier pigeons.

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