Dales Diary
Musings of a sysadmin
Current network diagram
01512 days
by admin
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Heres a little update on my current network, as you can see the server count is way over what is actually needed for the 1 workstation. currently the workstation and battlestar and ceturion are all virtualised on my main games pc, so they arnt the fastest in the world but they are responsive enough for me.
Patch panel
01512 days
by admin
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Heres a quick pic of a little purchase I made on a famous auction website. The patch panel is 24 port and is a standard 19″ rackmount size. the panel itself only cost a few pounds I think it was about a fiver so I wasnt expecting it to be top quality but I have been pleasantly surprised with it so far. Im sure a similarly sized managed switch will be joining it in the not too distant future as well.
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290 book has arrived
01514 days
by admin
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Well the 290 exam cram book has arrived and as I've only read a chapter or two so far, I'd thought I'd make a couple of comments about it.
Firstly the paper its printed on is lower quality than expected, which as I'm into books is a little disappointing I like books to look and feel well made, this one is printed on slightly higher quality newspaper paper by the feel of it.
The other thing I think worth mentioning is there is a overly large section on the format and purpose of MS exams. Now as it is an almost excepted given that when doing MCSE/MCSA you do the client exam/s first then most people will be comfortable with the exams and the MS way of doing things already.
Apart from that the content so far is of good quality. I shall keep you up to date as I continue to study for the 290.
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290 book has arrived
01514 days
by admin
in Uncategorized
Well the 290 exam cram book has arrived and as I've only read a chapter or two so far, I'd thought I'd make a couple of comments about it.
Firstly the paper its printed on is lower quality than expected, which as I'm into books is a little disappointing I like books to look and feel well made, this one is printed on slightly higher quality newspaper paper by the feel of it.
The other thing I think worth mentioning is there is a overly large section on the format and purpose of MS exams. Now as it is an almost excepted given that when doing MCSE/MCSA you do the client exam/s first then most people will be comfortable with the exams and the MS way of doing things already.
Apart from that the content so far is of good quality. I shall keep you up to date as I continue to study for the 290.
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exam cram 2 book for the 70-290
01517 days
by admin
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Just a quick update, I have just ordered the exam cram 2 book for the 70-290 to compliment my mspress training guide. Also I have installed the correct server 2003 version on my laptop to play with, I did install it as a DC but decided that it was a bit too slow for that so dcpromo’ed it back to a member server.
Ooops
01524 days
by admin
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Ok so after installing server 2k3 onto my laptop using both disks I've read in my mspress book that the exam doesn't cover R2 version. So I'll have to format it and start again, oh well its all a learning curve so they say.
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Laptop as a server
01525 days
by admin
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Last night after waiting for ages for 4gigs worth of photos etc to transfer to a usb drive I installed server 2k3 onto my laptop. The install went ok and I used the evaluation version that I got with the ms press 290 training kit. As its a server I gave it a static address with a dns address pointing to my DC and another pointing to an external DNS server. So we shall see how it goes.
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Far flung future
01525 days
by admin
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Hi all,
After having time to come down from the excitment of passing my 270 I have had a chance to think about the future.
once I have achieved my Mcsa where do I go from there. Well I have a feeling that I would like to learn a lot more about virtualisation technology as I find it a very interesting concept plus I think that's its use will become widespread in the near future. This would hopefully put me in a better position career wise.
I know that even getting my mcsa is along way off (I'm hoping to get it inthe middle/third quarter of next year, but its worth starting to plan post mcsa.
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270 Passed
01528 days
by admin
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Hi all,
I took the 270 today and passed with 826. I got 58 questions in the test and the score was much better than I thought it would be. Im going to have a celebratory beer tonight and then a break from studying for christmas before starting the 290.
tired!
01532 days
by admin
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So im sat up in my office rebuilding another install of XP, good job the person im doing it for kept reasonable backups of their work.
Whilst doing that im contemplating what to do with my P3 800mhz pc and my dual 550mhz server. The server is rather a large beast so I am wondering if its worth getting a scsi card or two and sticking it in the pc so I can use it as a backup fileserver and then loosing the rest of the server. Dont really know if I’ll do that yet but its an idea i’ll mull over for a while and see what comes out.
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