Ubuntu and Active Directory in 10 Minutes
This aims to be a short and simple step-by-step guide on how to get your blank box running Ubuntu server, joined to Active Directory and login to it with your AD credentials. Once installed, you can tailor this to your own environment easily. We use this on our local development servers to allow users to have their own home directories on each server with their own sites without having to juggle 6 different passwords. It also adds security in that once a user is locked out of AD, they are locked out of everywhere.
This article assumes you already have a functioning Windows 2003 server running AD. (more…)
Managing email signatures across the domain
At Bluhalo we needed a solution to inconsistency between employees email signatures. Every time our designers came up with a new email signature for us to use they would need to produce a separate GIF or JPEG for every employee, and then someone in HTML would have to build the signature and email it to everyone to add into Outlook. This was rather cumbersome and often meant changes to signatures spanned over a couple of days as people didn’t make the change, or people were away so couldn’t make the change. On top of that, if an email went out from webmail or a blackberry, it got no signature at all, or a basic text only signature at best!
To get round this I installed a piece of software called Exclaimer Mail Utilities on our Exchange 2003 server that parses all incoming and outgoing email and allows you to apply various rules to them. One of the best features in Exclaimer is the “Disclaimer” rule. (more…)
