Notes Page

01 Mar 10

Since the re-write I've uploaded a lot of stuff, the language conversion option has been added to every page, and we are now on Twitter (please follow us, all new articles are tweeted). I do try to get at least one new article up a day (work and family permitting).

31 Dec 09

Well since the site re-write last month, there's been a ton of articles and stuff uploaded, with the new format its easy for me to publish articles as I hit problems and find solutions. Thanks to all who made a donation to the site in 2009 and thanks to all the emails sent in, where possible I've replied to everyone. Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2010!!

11 Nov 09

Firstly apologies - If you have any pages book marked, the URL may well have changed, I've completely re-written the site from the ground up. Like any entity that has evolved over time, the layout looked like a bag of spanners and needed sorting out. The site started as a place for me to stick odd articles and tutorials, but over the last year has developed into more of a database/knowledge base of articles, So I've rolled all the older articles into the database format, linked the whole thing back to some cascading style sheets, so hopefully everything looks a little more uniform. That being said please let me know if there are any broken links or something does not render properly.

24 Jun 09

Well the Techbin got far too unweildy, so I've rolled everything ont the techmain page - all the backend links are the same, (just in case you book marked anything :) Stuffs going up steadily and the sites got better band witch now (50Mb).

13 Oct 08

Never have I done so much work on the site! it seems not a day passes without me scribbling something down to publish on the site, I've done a ton of Hyper-V stuff over the last week. And stuff is getting dumped into the TechBin on a regular basis Plus my usual Cisco Stuff The home page has been cut down so it just links out to the other parts of the site, and I've dropped a few donation buttons onto the site in case anyone feels generous.

08 Sep 08

Started the Bargain Bin section today, There's a ton of other stuff trickling onto the site, done a fair amount of Cisco ASA stuff (WebVPN and Setup etc ) .

26 Jun 08

The Tech Main Page was re-done today to make it easier for me to put new stuff on it, I've put up an article covering ever thing about domain time problems that I've amassed, as a sort of "Fix All" for a lot of Event ID's. Also put up some info on creating a Virtual PIX firewall for your test bench :)

04 Mar 08

Occasional work done on the site - Upgraded my home server to 2008 and Exchange 2007 so I've been playing with Hyper visor and getting more experience with exchange, which was fun to get running with my domain provider SEE HERE. I've also been off on a VM Ware course so I will have another Exam to sit, I'm in the middle of studying for 70-620 so if anyone has any advice on the test it would be appreciated.

01 Dec 07

The "Trade Lull" before Christmas is on us all in technical land :( Over the last few months I've been decommissioning old Symantec Firewall's for our clients and replacing them with new ones (Mostly Cisco ASA's) but I thought if I'm doing that then so are a lot of other people, so there's a glut of small Symantec firewall's kicking about. So if you want one get on eBay and start searching to Bag Yourself a Cheap Firewall. Special thanks to Andrew Dorrian for the Client to gateway stuff on the Symantec FW200 page :)

The Event ID page was getting hidden at the back of the site so I've linked it off the main page, and I've been steadily doing some small bits on the site and uploading Event Errors and stuff.

13 Oct 07

I was at a Microsoft Technet event the other week, and while the thing was based aground Virtual Server the guys were using quite a bit of "Windows Deployment Services" which looked quite a good piece of kit. A week or so later one of our clients was asking me about imaging PC's and being a Symantec Reseller I naturally mentioned "Ghost" - Now I've used Ghost for years for imaging, mass rollouts, and even backing up PC's and problems I've had in the past were cured by my colleague Allen installing RIS, and using that to make Ghost work with bothersome network cards (do a Google search for Broadcom and Ghost wont work).

Now with WDS at the client site, the "workaround" we used to use didn't work, so I said I would run WDS up on the test bench and take a look at it. Now I've not touched "Microsoft's imaging stuff" since RIS and only then because it was NEW while I was studying for the 2000 Server exam, so there were loads of questions on it. But it looked like an unwieldy beast so I stuck with Ghost. But WDS is an all together better solution and if you want to take a peek read my walk through here.

30 Aug 07

I've been steadily putting tech stuff up for the last couple of months, the tech main page had started to swell up a bit so I broke it up a little to make it easier to navigate round. I've finally got round to putting in a temporary firewall at home to free up my PIX, so I will probably do a raft of PIX500 stuff over the coming weeks, then I can put it back and concentrate on the newer stuff. I've got a head full of Symantec Hardware firewall stuff as well so If anyone want's I can publish some stuff on that too, just drop me a mail.

17 Jul 07

Exam all done and passed, I've finally got round to writing down how to deploy 3cdeamon, an app I use all the time, to get the benefit yourself CLICK HERE to see how to use it for backing up your Cisco firewall's, CLICK HERE

13 May 07

First week back after the course, which went well, down at the Comstor I will get round to doing the exam in the next couple of weeks (work permitting) put some USB Encrypti on stuff up today. Ive been a bit scarce on EE this month cause Ive had a lot on, hopefully things will quiet down after the exam :)

31 Mar 07

All the ASA Stuff Iff Ive done so far is up, theres some ASDM and CLI configs here, and here for example, the Exchange Relay stuff is uploaded. My "Loan ASA" Goes back next week so I'm unsure how much more I will get done. Well at the end of next month I'm off to do my SNPA Course so I might get some more stuff published soon.

25 Mar 07

I've a fair amount of updates on the site over the past few weeks, Stuck some ISA info up, and will get some info up on the Cisco ASA when I've had it proof read by Tanya :) There's some "Open Relay & Exchange" stuff to upload too so watch this space.

30 Jan 07

The door opened and closed for Rogues admissions here at PNL some more stuff has been dropped into the Event ID section.

12 Jan 07

I've not updated this page for a while - but I've been doing some odds and ends on the site over the past few months :) I've started running Vista and Office 2007 on my work Laptop in an effort to get "Up to Speed" with it before my clients start using it - so you will see a trickle of Vista stuff like this and this popping up over the next few months.

Another year and I've been lucky enough to be re-awarded the MVP for "Windows Server - Networking" Thanks to the good folks at Microsoft (Special Mention for Lorna and Akim :)

08 Apr 06

Done a ton of work on the site today uploaded a walkthrough on the use of Exmerge. And how to use dcpromo with the adv switch HERE. Converted the rogues section to ASP and put some page counters on there. Overhauled the techmain page and put up the links for the Event ID section I started a while ago.

With all the recent works some links might have stopped so I'd be grateful if you come across a dead link if you would Email me and let me know.

03 Mar 06

Been a while since I put anything on the notes page, I've been doing odds and ends on the site over the past year - but nothing too stunning :( Cause I've been changing jobs and studying a lot, I've finally got my my backside in gear and started finishing of my MCSE, you can keep up with my progress Here.

I've also decided to start putting some Event ID stuff on the site cause I'm sick and tired of researching a particular problem - and sifting through pages of junk before I find a FIX - watch The Technical Section.

09 Apr 05

Updated the Downloads page with a bit more stuff and put some graphics on it - as it was starting to look a bit Dull.

20 Jan 05

I haven't updated this page in an age but I've done some sporadic work on the site in the past few months, the rogues page has been added to and I'm in the process of trying to present it a little better, (sorry for the wait) I'm moving the Longhorn link from the main page cause its said "New" for far too long

19 Aug 04

After dropping files on my web site willy-nilly for a number of posters at EE I decided I'd better create a download section to drop stuff in, as I'm loathed to give public access to the secure section of the site - there's just the 2K adminpak in there at the minute, if there's any "difficult to find" files that I can drop in there (Legally!) let me know. DOWNLOADS

24 Jul 04

Been very lazy on the site (sorry) I've had a lot on, for those Experts waiting for the Rogues Gallery update its now been done :) PL

06 Jun 04

Done a lot of work in the past few days on the Rogues Gallery Put the Symantec live AV feed on the main tech page today, (Saw it on Kyle's site and had to steal it :)

22 May 04

Uploaded the Windows Password Recovery page yesterday, and spent a lot of time going through the site and updating the page titles, in an effort to get some better cataloging on Google. I put manual links in on the Tech Main page, cause I think the java menu is confusing the search bots.

A big ThanQ to dorward, seanpowell , Daydreams and everyone who helped out here, for those of you who have book marked the Home Page you will see we are "Icon-ed"

09 May 04

Domain name is now working fine, and we are indexed by google. Rehashed the Browser Hijack page and uploaded the "Outlook blocking attachments" page.

02 May 04

Finally got round to registering www.petenetlive.com though it's gonna take 24-72 hours for the update to filter down to everyone.

11 April 04

Well, this sites been up for about a month and I've done zip on it in that time, Despite some good feedback and ideas from a few good folks from EE. As its bank holiday weekend, I've set some time aside to get some work done on the site. Updated the news ticker on the front page, the links page, as well as building this area for me to jot down some stuff in.

I'd like to thank for following for their help,

Marcel Brugmans: For providing the secure section and logon stuff, and for his patience while I tried to get my head round the asp.

Jess Porter: No I've not been ignoring the Emails, I've been so busy on EE that I've not been here to do any updates for a while, your suggestions are now included on the links page.

Luc and Ashwin (aka LucF and Sunray_2003) Thanks for the input, I've repaired the broken links (The info was ported across from the old website) Not sure If I'm going to change the links from the main page though, hyperlinking the text makes it look odd.

What's in the Pipeline: Those of you who know me, will know some thieving scrote broke into my server room and stole all my tools :( As I've now got to dance through hoops naked to get my insurance company to replace the things, and a good article I once read at Toms Hardware, I'm going to write up "What I think" Tech's should be carrying around with them. I'll get it up in the Tech Info section when its done.

Once in the Lounge (at EE) another Expert commented that (with the exception of the page editors) No one knows what anyone looks like? If enough people are interested I'll post a "Rogues Gallery" here. Let me know if your interested. PL