Category: REDDITINT-SYSADMIN

REDDITINT-SYSADMIN

Software for managing config files

Suppose that I spend 3 days setting up a server: installing new software, setting up user accounts and credentials, generating config files for SSH, Samba, firewall, etc. Now I want to store these instructions in a config file, so that on a new installation I press a button and the desired server is generated; importantly,…

Cloud CA + Intune w/ MS NPS?

Moving away from MS Certificate Authority and vetting cloud PKIs (SCEPman, SecureW2, EJBCA). So far everything has seemed straight forward but I may have just hit a design snag. TODAY all of our endpoints will be Hybrid AD Joined so they have computer objects in on-premise AD. If using MS Intune to enroll device cert…

“Killer” ergonomic setups

After decades of tendonitis in several places, I feel like I've tried a lot of different mice (vertical, trackball, 45 degree; both right and left) but my latest tendonitis (De Quervain's Tenosynovitis) is telling me I've stagnated on the keyboard side of things… So I'm considering the ErgoDox EZ. Any other ideas to stave away…

Internet Speed Testing

We have a 1gig connection to the Internet. Our Internet Speed tests are showing download speeds of 217Mbps. I have my laptop plugged directly into our ISP router and rebooted the router before testing. Just curious if there are other options for testing Internet speeds? I have reached out to our ISP about it, but…

Sites & Services: subnets

So… we have our topology and sites well-defined and based on physical location of data centers with DCs in them. What we haven't been keeping up with is the subnet definitions. We now have hundreds to add. My question is: is it better try try to supernet and add large ranges of IP, and maybe…