Stories
- Hiding my services behind a port knock
- A full teardown to swap one part
- A site-to-site VPN, tested offline before it went live
- A zero-downtime server refresh
- Automating student account provisioning
- Azure foundations for Dynamics 365 migrations
- Dropped calls, found in the firewall logs
- Four hours down, one bad cable
- Getting signal into a metal building
- In-house reporting instead of $300-an-hour consulting
- Keeping the streaming, fixing the network
- Proving WEP wasn't protecting us
- Ransomware, first thing in the morning
- Running Sage without handing out admin
- Teaching networking by building it
- The escalation point for Windows XP
- Turning config tracking into handover documentation
- When an expired certificate took the VPN down
- Working with the site's IT, not passing the puck