We had the first meeting of the "Active Directory Working Group" on the 28th, the agenda and notes (once approved) will be available at

http://oit.ncsu.edu/iam/active-directory-working-group

In related news, the "IAM Service Team" met on the 29th, see http://oit.ncsu.edu/iam/iam-service-team

The IAM project is one of the first projects to be addressed in OIT's Strategic Operations Plan.

Folks,

I've added the alinks module to the ISO drupal site.

This module allows one to identify text with a URL, and creates an external link to that URL whenever it displays the text.  This makes it easy to write documentation that refers to Vision with a capitol 'V" without having to remember to link it.

All authors, ISO and otherwise, can edit alinks at:

http://xteams.oit.ncsu.edu/iso/admin/build/alinks

After much frustration fighting with the Microsoft documentation, I have managed to get a script that will collect roughly all the date we need and pruning off the unnecessary chaff. Kevin, John and I determined we need to have Name, Group, Resource Type, Dependencies and Possible Owners. We came up with two scripts to get all this information. One script lists the possible owners of all the resources. One script lists all the resources for which cluster node is the possible owner.

Here is a basic howto for setting up TortoiseSVN to manage a subversion repository. Let me know if there is anything missing or unclear.

Two more baby steps towards killing uni04nt, our last Windows 2000, Java/Tomcat soaked server.

I've added redirects for the old WolfPrep IP mangement tool to send folks to web00, where this tool now lives.

I fixed a bug like feature in the new NovellUSMDBClient where a quota of zero was reported as "" and not "0"

User "daniel" is the only account that ever had a zero quota, as he was hand moved from the super special ITD only volume that's not under USMDB control by hand, and didn't get a pleab quota assigned.

I've retired the "integrate@lists.ncsu.edu" mailing list, as there hasn't been an integration services team for some time.  If you were using this for anything, my apologies, and please start using windows-services@lists.ncsu.edu

Folks,

I've made some hopefully cosmetic changes to the ISO blog:

1. There is now a "post to blog" entry on the navigation, to get it up top and easily accessible.
2. The "Service Teams" RSS feed (right side) no longer includes events from the ISO blog itself.  We've already got recent items from there on the main pane.
3. Theres is a "Teams" menu item along with Blogs/Docs/Forums for quick navigation to our legion of beloved service team sites.

Folks,

At the request of the folks in the WolfTech active directory, I've added a CNAME to uni03ps of

wolfprint.ncsu.edu

This is so that existing clients that have .ncsu.edu in their DNS search path can find it more easily.

For the spring semester, we're no longer using the Novell Pcounter system for Windows workstation printing.  Instead, uni03ps is running Samba to provide access to the lprng printers via the Microsoft RPCs.

I've rumored it quite a bit and now its official.  The first NCSU FOSS         
Fair will be held Monday, February 2nd in Engineering Building 2.  More
information here:                                

https://opensource.ncsu.edu/FossFair2009

The fair is open to students, staff, faculty, Red Hat, and guests and is       
run in an unconference style.  Sign up to talk about your Open Source
project, get feedback from the community, hold a hackfest, plan your