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If projects have one unpleasant side-effect, it is that they cost money. Because of this, it is an accepted practice to set up a budget for a project before we start on it. Estimates are given, numbers are shouted and before you know it, a shiny new budget
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Date: Friday, the 18th of July 2008. Location: OGD HQ (Delft, The Netherlands). 'So, we reached the conclusion that you've been slacking', Sander tells me. I ponder upon this for a moment, and then fully agree with him. After another moment of cogitation,
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My article for June will be a bit later than you might expect. This weekend, several projectteams have worked at my customer to accomplish a rather tricky migration, replacing all WAN-links, servers and software, consolidating (in a way) all company-data,
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With a pointedly 'Do you know which month it is ?', Sander reminded me that it was time for another blogpost. Not that I had forgotten, but the past weeks have been busy enough. That, and I wasn't 100% sure on which to write. Admittedly, an article had
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It's April, so that means it's time for a new blogpost! This time, I've decided to dig a little deeper into the technical aspects of projectmanagement and write an article on planning techniques. We'll examine the various popular methods of planning projects
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Documenting your project is a wonderful thing. It can fill those lonely hours that you'd normally spend behind the geraniums watching the rain drizzle down in a slightly insulting manner. It can warm your heart as it grows in size and keep you company
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.. be warned. As of today, I've decided to make at least one blogpost every month. I was reminded by the fact that I still _have_ a blog by Sander (and indirectly by Carlos. Hi Carlos!) and he kept hugging and cuddling me until I caved. I tried to run,
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A few weeks ago, I got a call from one of our accountmanagers. If I would be available to perform a migration at a customer. The situation seemed a bit tricky, as the customer had a clusterconfiguration that, apparently, 'wasn't very stable'. That, it
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We all know that it is vital to protect our systems from viruses and outside intruders. If we fail to do so, our beloved systems are very likely to end up as nodes in a botnet, have their contents read and altered; you name it. So, to prevent that from
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Resulting from a small scenario I handled today at a customer, I wrote a short post on ISA server client requests and why it doesn't always 'just work'. You can find it here: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/paul/pages/no-it-doesn-t-do-that.aspx Enjoy!
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Today, a wise man reminded me of a fundamental truth: 'People just expect it to work'. Unfortunately, the reason that there are people who specialize in certain areas is because, well, most of the time it doesn't just work. It takes a certain insight
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When you look at it, planning makes a project go round. It defines the lifespan, control and scheduling of all activities. And when we're being honest, that's what projectmanagement (in it's technical terms) is all about. Still, even planning is a subjective
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During the past years, I've done quite a few projects. As a techie, I was often extremely annoyed at that which is so lovingly referred to as 'Decision Time'. After all, I was the techie, I said how it was to be done and that's the end of it, right ?
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.. this time on Vmware. I just realised I might have to apologize to the people reading all this. For my work, I do a lot of different things, some of which are not related to Active Directory at all. I have in the past years developed databases, done
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So. There I was, happily bathing in the rays of my newly created W2K3 cluster. Using NLB, it was happily distributing incoming requests through to the included servers and my life was a good thing. At one of my previous customers, we implemented a NLB-cluster
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