Tuesday, December 19, 2006

To Tux or not to Tux...

As my friends know, every now and then I just “happen to” find myself in interesting situations. Well so it is that I just “happen to" find my self in charge of the IT implementation at work. Currently we are using two main techs. A windows based Active Directory implementation and a SQL based central database. This system is currently a very hackneyed implementation by the previous IT staff with resources just slapped together by wiring and users just thrown randomly into the AD. This is quickly reaching manageability limits as the number of users in now around 25. My goals are to move all this to a Linux based setup with the goal of easy future additions to the network. Some considerations are to use easily manageable tech so that I can teach administration to non-Linux IT team members. On big hurdle is to do all this experimenting after hours to minimize down-time.
Over the next few posts I will talk about the implementation that I… implement and how I got about it. This is going to be fun.

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