Category Archives: Servers

Snow Leopard Client And Active Directory

In the midst of our migration to Active Directory, we’ve run into a snag… To set the stage – We were forced to stand up a “temporary” AD Domain (running on Server 2008 R2) for a copier project with the understanding … Continue reading

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Yowza

Been a while since I’ve even checked on this site… Lots of changes for the work side of things. We finally upgraded our Zimbra install – I’ve been thinking about writing up the process, but don’t know if it makes … Continue reading

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Speaking Of Xserves

We’re still running Zimbra at work and it’s still providing us with what we need as a collaboration suite. Unfortunately, we’re running on Leopard Server and still stuck on version 5 due to Apple’s unwillingness to fix the bugs in … Continue reading

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On A Happier Note

I finally got our authentication/home directories deployed. Running on Xserves. The same Xserves that Apple discontinued 8 months ago. <Sigh>

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Call For Assistance

If there are any OS X Server gurus out there, I’m having issues with Tiger client Netinstall images and Leopard server. They just don’t work! The machines netboot just fine and look like they’re going to image properly but the … Continue reading

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Zimbra Update

Just a quick note: We rolled out Zimbra back in October to our 2,000+ users with some last minute account insanity. Aside from quickly adding over one hundred last minute accounts, the roll out was a success. We’ve had a … Continue reading

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Zimbra External Directory Sync

One of the first problems I had to resolve after installing Zimbra, was how to keep Zimbra’s internal LDAP directory in sync with our Open Directory server. This problem was compounded by the fact that out of the box, all … Continue reading

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Just Curious

This one is for any other sysadmins that happen to stumble across this blog… Our school district has the worst data management possible. We have had active email accounts for people who haven’t worked for us in years. It’s that … Continue reading

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Zimbra

One of the projects I’m involved with at work is implementing a new email system. We’re going to be moving approximately 2100 users from Squirrelmail to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. As part of the transition we’re not going to be … Continue reading

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