Low Cost Network Administration

Here is a page to discuss various Network Administration problems and solutions. My philosophy is that it is generally preferable to use inexpensive tools that require more system engineering as opposed to expensive tools that require less engineering.
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• desktop support: Transitioning from XP to Vista - June 17th, 2008
  What should we do about Vista?  The major hardware vendors are making it harder to get XP pre-installed, so licensing will begin to get dodgy.  Also Microsoft will end "Mainstream support" of XP on ...
• Disaster Recovery: Automate ASR Backups on Windows 2003 Server - June 4th, 2008
  ASR Backups are a cool way to get system state backups of  Windows 2003 server.  They are cooler than regular NTBackup system state backups, because you can do a "bare metal" restore by booting a sy...
• E-mail: How close can you get to Exchange with Google Apps? - June 4th, 2008
  Here are the main problem I see with rolling Google Apps out to Outlook users who are used to Exchange: Access to shared calendars won't work the same I guess you could use something like OggS...
• extranet: Sharing Files with people outside the company - Extranet - May 18th, 2008
  Many times our clients run into the problem of sharing files with people outside the company.  Sometimes it's just a simple matter of needing to send large files that cannot be attached to e-mail due...
• Scripting: Automate ASR Backups on Windows 2003 Server - June 4th, 2008
  ASR Backups are a cool way to get system state backups of  Windows 2003 server.  They are cooler than regular NTBackup system state backups, because you can do a "bare metal" restore by booting a sy...
• smartphones: Using smartphones as modems - May 20th, 2008
  Some clients insist on having mobile broadband cards in their laptops which is pretty cool.  But why pay for the extra data plan when so many of these same users already have a smartphone with data.Â...
• Uncategorized: Remote Support software - June 24th, 2008
  I've been wondering why there aren't more free internet remote support solutions given that there is very good open source code out there to accomplish this (i.e. VNC).  Using VNC requires knowing th...
• web: Widgets - June 13th, 2008
  I went to my first SF Tech Meetup today and learned a little bit about widgets.  These are little chunks of content that you can embed in a webpage or blog and e-mail around.  Widget people like to ...