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, 16 June 2016

Synology RackStation RS3614xs+

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Some time back, we received two Synology RS3614xs+ units so that we could address our rather painful lack of on campus storage (my Thruk mo...
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OMG. I can't Teach, the Internet is down...!

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Earlier in the week, we had our first major/prolonged outage since I've been here. A contractor (somewhat ironically installing a route ...
Monday, 13 June 2016

One day, Apple might actually work in Education.

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On Wednesday last week, I had some fruitful (pun not originally intended, but greatly amusing with hindsight) discussion with some people wh...
Thursday, 9 June 2016

Juniper EX4600 switches - first impressions

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We recently* took delivery of two Juniper EX4600 switches to ultimately replace our rather decrepit old Nortel Passport 1624G collapsed cor...
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Friday, 3 June 2016

Enabling VLAN assignment on Ubiquiti UniFi-IW APs

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Whilst I've had a fair number of fairly serious headaches when it comes to the deployment of Ubiquiti's UniFi wireless system sinc...
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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...
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