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• A Simple Backup Solution

  As I've mentioned before, I don't spend much money or time maintaining the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab). However, that doesn't mean that I treat my infrastructure lightly. In previous posts, I've covered many of the Group Policy objects that Read More... Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 6:44 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• The Original "Jameson Datacenter"

  This morning I was doing some cleanup of my documents folder and I stumbled across a rather old Visio document that showed the beginnings of what I now refer to as the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab). For some geeky reason, seeing this again Read More... Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:18 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Personal, Infrastructure

• Configure IntelliMirror Using Group Policy

  Yet another Group Policy object that I use in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab) is one to automatically configure roaming profiles and redirect the Desktop and Documents folders to a server(a.k.a. "IntelliMirror"). Even though I don't have Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:57 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Eliminate MBSA Warnings Using Default Security Settings Policy

  Another Group Policy object that I use in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab) is one that I created a couple of years ago in order to eliminate various warnings from the Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor (MBSA). To automatically change the Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:57 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Managing Group Membership via Group Policy - Part 2

  In Part 1 of this post , I explained the Group Policy object (named Development - Restricted Groups Policy ) that I use for enforcing group membership on a specific set of servers. As a follow-up to that post, I also want to cover an alternate method Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:04 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Enforcing Windows Update via Group Policy

  Another Group Policy object that I use in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab) is one to automatically configure Windows Update on all computers in the domain. This ensures that each server or workstation downloads updates from COLOSSUS (one Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:15 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, WSUS, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Managing Group Membership via Group Policy - Part 1

  In yesterday's post I covered one of the Group Policy objects that I use in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab), specifically one that automatically enables Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) whenever I add a new server to my Active Directory Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:45 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Enabling Remote Desktop via Group Policy

  In a previous post, I provided some details on the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab). In a follow-up post, I also discussed the Active Directory domain structure and mentioned how I use the Group Policy feature of Active Directory to "effortlessly" Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:53 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Active Directory Domain Structure in the "Jameson Datacenter"

  In a previous post, I provided some details on the "Jameson Datacenter" , which is really just my home lab that I use for learning new technologies and improving my skills, as well as actually completing my day-to-day tasks on various customer projects Read More... Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 6:50 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Infrastructure

• The "Jameson Datacenter"

  Back in a post from February 2008, I first referred to the "Jameson Datacenter" while discussing one of the servers running in my basement. Since then I've referenced my home lab about a dozen times in different posts but never provided significant details Read More... Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 6:53 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 2 Comments Filed under: My System, Infrastructure, Virtualization

• Environment Naming Conventions

  One of the challenges I see in organizations that I work with is the lack of naming conventions for various environments -- or sometimes naming conventions that provide little or no value. For about the last ten years, I've been a strong proponent of Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:42 PM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, MOSS 2007, Core Development, WSS v3, SQL Server, Infrastructure