November 18, 2008 7:45 AM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
automation,
domotics,
home,
IT supportThis is always been one of dreams! And today this dream can come true!
Since last June I have changed job role and passed from System Administration, a job that I've done form about 10 years, and have become a Technical Support Engineer in a company that is a leader in software for industry...
November 10, 2008 10:48 AM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
Group Policy,
IT supportEven if I'm not anymore in the direct IT Department, some manager have asked me this question when they noticed that there were some shutdown/startup scripts running on their client machines so I thought that writing a post that explains how to find this information could be a good idea.
Let's...
November 2, 2008 9:38 AM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
future,
IT support,
mainframe,
pastIn my experience as a SysAdmin I've had the opportunity to put my hands on several IT infrastructures and I've seen many ways of using the IT technologies. I've seen things that humans….oops that was another thing :)
Actually I'm not managing these infrastructures anymore because...
October 16, 2008 8:11 AM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
Admin tools,
Database,
Intranet,
Intranet portal,
IT supportSo in the previous post I've suggested you to use the Persist ASP Upload components (not free), some of you may wonder why…well it's easy: this component not only allows you to upload your files via ASP but also gives you the...
September 25, 2008 3:16 PM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
Active Server Pages,
Database,
Intranet,
Intranet portal,
IT support,
self-serviceIn the previous post we have seen the code that stays behind the scenes and that checks if a user is allowed to download the file. But what happens if the user is not allowed to download the requested software?
If you check the ASP code in my previous post you will see that there is a subroutine...
September 24, 2008 12:52 PM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
Active Server Pages,
Database,
Intranet,
Intranet portal,
IT support,
Patch managementHi folks, I just found out that I had an image of the concept behind the Download Center so I think it's much better to post it so this can clearly explain how the whole thing works…here it is!
September 24, 2008 12:36 PM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
Active Server Pages,
Bandwidth,
Database,
Intranet,
Intranet portal,
IT support,
NetworkingSo we're finally at the "interesting" stuff: the page that checks if a user is allowed or not to download a certain package.
As in previous posts in order to allow a user to download a certain file he/she must be a member of a given group; e.g. we want to restrict the downloads of...
September 17, 2008 3:07 PM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
IT support...but time won't take the boy out of this man! (U2 - City of blinding lights)
Some of you probably notices that I'm not updating as frequently as before...oh well...soooooooorry but this new job is sucking taking all of my time in styudying, exams and so on. So pleas ebe...
September 11, 2008 10:13 AM
Posted by: alessandro.panzetta
Active Server Pages,
Database,
Intranet,
Intranet portal,
IT supportIn this post we will build the page that downloads the packages that we have defined as: STANDARD, GOODIE or PATCH. These software packages are the ones that are available to all users in our domain so no special need is required except being a user in the domain.
What the page will do is to...
