The thing that always bothered me about the DRACs were that they kept changing the software so you never knew from month to month what software you would use to work with them and what you could do in it. Overall though, they made life a bunch easier for us several times than it necessarily would have been otherwise.
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 2:20 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books... Those DRAC cards from dell are a POS if you've used a ILO or RILOE from HPQ not to mention the fact that those DRAC cards from Dell are a POS when you try to do disk imaging on a PowerEdge with one. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Fuller, Stuart Sent: Mon 1/23/2006 10:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books... C) Hunter and I were TRs and I would highly recommend it. Joe & Robbie have made significant changes and have cleared up a couple of my pet peeves in the scripts and security bits from the 2E book. It also still has the best introduction and explanation of VB scripting for AD. As to the BP guide... I too would like to see that. We have managed to stay fairly centralized but we are now supporting a second remote data center. The one thing that has saved us is the new version of Dell's RAC card. It has a virtual CD/floppy drive feature where you can map your local workstation drive to be the CD or floppy of the server. Using that feature I was able to do bare metal installs across the wire. Very cool and saved me a seven hour round trip drive to eastern Montana. _Stuart Fuller -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rocky Habeeb Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books... Dear people, I would appreciate it it you would prioritize the following for me; [A] [ ] Work 60 hours a week managing (with only one other person) 250 PCs in 4 states and 40 Servers. [B] [ ] Live at the only bookmark in my browser when at home "www.microsoft.com" looking for solutions, etc. [C] [ ] Read joe's (et al) new book. [D] [ ] Studying for my MCSA [E] [ ] Studying for my MCP [F] [ ] Studying for my MCSE [G] [ ] Securing my network [H] [ ] Reading the new book joe is going to write on BP's [Yes, please tell me how to rebuild a DC remotely from bare metal!!] [I] [ ] Reading Robbie's book(s) (note: please sub-prioritize those books) [J] [ ] Balanicing my checkbook ( hey .. I have to do something else at home, right?) [K] [ ] Patching my network [L] [ ] Learn to script [M] [ ] Watch College basketball on TV [N] [ ] Read all of Sakari's books [O] [ ] Read the AD list archives completely "Hey, I'm almost serious here." As Guido would say, "That's enough for today." RH List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
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