Sophos Anti-Virus Management Console

In the week just passed the management console for Sophos was triggered to push out 10.2 of the Sophos client; the update triggered a large amount of warnings on the dashboard, but this very quickly dwindled as devices were used throughout the days afterwards.

VAMT

We have installed on our WDS server the Volume Activation Management Tool to help us resolve and monitor licence activations.

2003 x86 DC to 2008 x64 DC

In the grand scheme of things it is now time to migrate our DC from Server 2003 x86 to Server 2008 x64.

The jump to 2010 will be held back for a bit.

The new O/S has been built and all updates applied.

The role of DC has been installed but not applied. The 2003 DC needs its scheme updated first.

Update: 10-12-2012
The 2003 DC has had it's scheme updated and the new 2008 R2 x64 DC has been brought online.

Failed HDD in Raid rebuild

A replacement HDD arrived today for Horizon's raid. Just plugged it in to let it rebuild.

WSUS

Installed, configured and reporting as expected. This should hopefully put a stop to laptops and tablets needing to install updates almost every time they are used. Instead, they can all be updated on maintenance days.

Update 11-11-2012
Always helps to make sure all updates are applied to WSUS before getting it to try and check with itself. Patches applied and now all devices can see WSUS and report back to clients without errors.

Windows Deployment Services

WDS is back up and running after some time - not working.

Images are now easily created, captured and distributed once more.

Update: 08-11-12
Managed to create a WDS deployment USB key by replacing the install.wim file on a OS Bootable USB key. Granted it shot the file size from 2GB to 8GB, but this image can be deployed in approximately 45mins on a 1 Ghz Acer WS500 tab with everything pre-installed.