A Bit of a Purpose

So over the years I've blogged about a number of topics elsewhere, but this one is a good place to be my professional blog. I work as a SysAdmin for a large Healthcare Provider in the North Eastern part of the country. I spend my day knee deep in both Windows and Novell and am going to write about that here....starting with...

Time!
(or how I stopped hating the Domain Controller)

When I took this job, I had a few weeks to look around, one of the things I noticed was that everything was taking a long time to sync up. A quick poke or two at some systems and I discovered that the entire network had up to 15 minutes of delta between the various systems, so I set upon my way to rectify the situation. Originally the various networking groups did not communicate well and when they set up their various systems they all did the best practice for time management, but none of them used the SAME system, in fact one SysAdmin was setting his boxes by his wristwatc. After many meetings, several weeks and much fretting about things,
the plan went through and now they have a delta of about .1 seconds....and we were actually able to see what was truly broken...