School Sysadmin

This blog follows my exploits as a one time Network Architect / Systems Administrator / IT Manager at a university in South Africa. When you've RTFMd, and it didn't help, WABM!

Thursday, 26 May 2016

The day Google broke email signatures...

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We are having an interesting time (since yesterday morning) with email signature images in Gmail at the moment. It's a minor thing, bu...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Dear Apple. Please stop pretending you're the answer to all of our problems.

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This post was prompted by a brief discussion with a teacher acquaintance of mine who has 300-odd iPads at their school, which they have to m...
Thursday, 24 March 2016

Simplified 802.1x roll-out for windows clients: The JANET SU1X utility

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I'm clearly not the first sysadmin to find setting up windows clients a pain; the UK university network consortium, JANET, has supported...

Apple Cache Server update

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In a previous post , we went through the steps I took to install a working Apple cache server. It looks like our Apple cache server is ear...
Tuesday, 22 March 2016

FreeRADIUS - production SSL certificates

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In the previous post, we covered the basic setup of FreeRADIUS. In this post, we're going to focus on getting the SSL certificates rig...

FreeRADIUS installation and configuration

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I eventually abandoned  shelved getting a working PacketFence installation (the learning curve and my time availability were not friends); I...
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Monday, 29 February 2016

Apple caching server

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With the ever growing number of Apple devices [particularly iPads and iPhones] on our campus and (as far as I can see) no local Apple server...
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