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The following tutorials are projects and work related research that has a specific link to how technology is applied to a work related scenario, or project. Ever wander, in college, "why I need to learn this?" Wondering, if the teacher was ever going to lecture out where and how such topic is applied in the real world. In the end , it turned out we all struggled with our first jobs; having the logic learned at school but not the awareness as to how to apply it at work, and above all, make it work for you and your work assignment!
The following tutorials are specified to the task at hand...some tools are freely available as open source, while others, the employer needs to provide. Updates will be posted regularly. A good piece of advice, as already noted in the main page, build yourself a home LAB. And then, get yourself a good Maxtor drive, with about 300 gigs of space...I recommend a Terrabyte, because, trust me, a good technical library, consumes space. And we'll built what I just wrote, a technical resource library for you. Our ultimate goal is all this, is automation. As much as possible, and when possible, to use automation to facilitate the deployment and administration of the work.
"Oh, the picture below is only here to remind me the purpose of all this, my ultimate goal...the goal above all goals!"
My enthusiasm and passion for automotives leads me to such goal; with the ownership of a Ducati, currently a BMW M3,
a Yamaha R1, and soon, soon enough, the Ferrari 430!"
Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 and Ghost Console 2.5
PXELinux bootloaders and TFTP Servers for PXE Booting: Non use of CDs or Floppies for booting/imaging machines.
Altiris: Imaging and Deployment
Altiris: Repackaging of applications, deployments, and patch mgmt
Wake-on-lan: Wake up /shutdown PCs, Ghost Console WOL, and use with PXELinux PXE boot TFTPDROOT/TFPTBOOT
Red Hat Linux: How to set up DHCP Server
Red Hat Linux: How to set up RHEL srv 5.1 and partition the main directories
Red Hat Linux: Kickstart
Red Hat Linux: GLinux -- ghost for linux
Solaris 10: Main Initial Set Up Measures and QA prior to deployment of machine
Solaris 10: Jumpstart
VMware ESXi installation and build of 1 Virtual Machine
How to use Nmap, AngryIP, BackTrack, Intrusion Detection, Wireshark, and other security Tools
Microsoft Sysinternals and PSTOOLS
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Toolkit
Microsoft Sysprep and Vermalex how-to (very good link and source to learn how to use Sysprep)
Windows XP Pro Imaging: Key Imaging Components
Ghost Tricks and Switches
Routers: ACLs and Pen Testing
SCCM and automated deployment of applications and operating systems (wim files/images).
BDD 2007 - WDK - Zero Touch - WIM files - TFTP server usage - more
Registry Tweaks and RUN ONCE
Important Utilities and Tools for every committed Admin
Security: Wireshark and network package monitoring
Microsoft SCCM and its predecessor SMS 2003
Microsoft Clustering and Network Load Balancing: WLBS
Microsoft Servers and Protocols: DNS, DHCP, IIS, CA, TCP/IP, UDP, and more...
Authentication Authorities
Active Directory and DNS
Backups: Difference Once and For All Between Incremental and Differential!