In working with group policies, I've run into some frustrating test conditions where the policies I set just weren't getting set on the target computers.

Checking into the event log, the issue appears to be that the clock on my vmware machine was too far out of sync with the time on the WolfTech domain controllers for a session to be established, and so the workstation service principal couldn't log in and get the list of gpo's it should apply.

The unix systems group needs hardware for the clustered MySQL service. MySQL is used by Drupal, OCS Inventory, Nagios, and a number of other misson critical and core activities.

At Monday's "Windows Action League" it was decided that we could, and should, migrate the guest VMs that the old ITD group was hosting on the free VMware offering to the ESX VMware from the old ETSS group. This will free up 2 x Dell 2850 class servers, complete with HBAs to attach them to the SAN, already wired up and ready to go in DC1 and DC2. This machines can feed the MySQL project.