http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin Just another Blog.cortland.edu weblog Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:07:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Much effort and resources have been devoted the enterprise level storage for students, faculty and staff.  Administrative computing currently manages 16TB of space.  We have increased faculty network storage to 4GB per user, and will increase the space on a request by request basis.    The Campus banner system will be ... http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/12/14/administrative-systems-update-given-at-the-fall-2007-tech-liaison-meeting/ Wikipedia.org defines Green Computing as the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently.  We at SUNY Cortland are taking a serious approach to implementing new Enterprise applications to ensure we are doing so in an energy efficient manner.  We are constantly migrating from large servers, to smaller blade servers which ... http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/10/03/green-computing/ As we gear up for the start of the semester, all of the summers hard works comes to light. We have implemented many new offerings and upgraded existing systems. Our Media streaming servers have gotten new software, we have added new blades to our infrastructure, and of course ... http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/08/24/start-of-the-semester/ We are going to a Native Windows 2003 Domain, which is much more secure and dependable that our existing structure.  Windows 98/me machines, which I refer to as Wintendo machines, will not longer be able to logon to the domain, or access shared folders. http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/08/10/windows-98-machines/ We have installed a new windows update server, which "should" make administering windows patches a little easier. We have pushed the policy down through a group polciy so now one should be affected. If you feel you are not getting the necessary updates, please let someone know. http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/08/10/windows-update-server/ The campus web server (www.cortland.edu), was down for a period of time this morning.  It was chiefly related to a conversion, of a metal server, to a virtual appliance.  The switch completed as expected but had a few bumps along the way which required manual intervention.  Typically these jobs completed ... http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/08/09/campus-web-server-interuption/ In an effort to consolidate and save energy we will be moving servers, starting with web servers into our virtual server environment. During the move the servers may be slightly sluggish, but rest assured their speed and dependability will be increased dramatically in the new environment. http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/08/08/web-servers-go-virtual/ We have purchased new software so manager enterprise backups, this should increase accuracy and speed of network based backups. http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/08/08/new-backups-in-town/ In effort to keep pace with todays classroom activities, and to provide secure backuped storage facilities, we are raising "U" drive quotas to 4GBs.   We are investigating how to give students more data, we would very much value everyone's input.  Currently students have 250MB of network storage.  If you ... http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/08/08/server-quotas-increase/ Systems Administration has come a long way at SUNY Cortland, the services we provide are vast and ever growing. We have a state of the art infrastructure, which allows to meet the technical needs of the college both administrative and academic. http://blog.cortland.edu/sysadmin/2007/08/08/welcome/