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Networking Projects
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Process Data Domain
Designed an NT domain structure that allowed a 30 server
multi-refinery application to smoothly integrate into a central domain
structure undergoing many changes due to a corporate merger.
Established the domain by installing NT on the primary domain controller
and most of the backup domain controllers and servers. Created an
installation document for third party contractors to use for the remaining
off-site NT server installations.
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Client Installation Utility
Wrote an application in Visual C++ that runs any process under a
predefined user account. This utility is used on a 900 NT
workstation network to roll out software packages through the logon script
that can only be installed by a workstation administrator.
This utility was required to allow users to logon to
the workstations without administrative privileges, greatly reducing PC support.
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Active Directory Utility
Created a Visual Basic application that uses the Windows 2000 Active
Directory object model to
enumerate all of the servers and workstations attached to an NT
network. Also created a utility with Visual C++ that allows all NT
system policies to be set remotely. These utilities are used in
conjunction to perform real-time network wide system security
updates.
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ODBC & SQL*Net Rollout and Maintenance
Created a set of scripts that deploys all ODBC and SQL*Net components and
configuration settings required for clients to access ORACLE 6, 7, and 8
databases from both 16-bit and 32-bit applications. These scripts have
been used, virtually unchanged, since 1996 to maintain all client ODBC and SQL*Net
settings on a 700 PC network. All PC's have the same ODBC and SQL*Net settings,
which greatly reduces the configuration required when machines are changed
out.
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Government Agency Network Installation
Designed and implemented a small TCP/IP network comprised of a Windows NT
server, a Sun Solaris server, and approximately 10 windows 95 PC's.
Specified and purchased the necessary Ethernet cable, routers, and network
interface cards and installed the cable and cards. Established an ISP
account for the client and configured the client machines and the UNIX
server to access the internet through a software proxy server running on the
NT server.
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Server & Storage Area Network Installation
Physically configured and installed 10+ 2 and 4 processor Dell 6300 class
servers as well as the external SCSI and fiber channel storage
systems. Also assisted Dell with debugging a mismatch between the
SCSI RAID controllers and NT (the RAID controller was only compatible with
a cluster based NT system). Flashed the controllers with the
appropriate firmware, installed NT on all of the servers, and configured
the external SCSI storage devices and the fiber channel Storage Area
Network.
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Corporate Network Installation
Installed Windows 2000 and Windows Millennium Edition on several PCs that
comprise the BTS corporate network, and connected them to the Internet with
a Cisco 675 DSL router. Determined that the Cisco IOS that came with
the router was not compatible with the Microsoft VPN software and upgraded
it to a compatible version, solving a problem that the DSL provider was
having with many clients. Configured the NAT settings on the router
to forward HTTP and FTP requests to an internal server used to test internet
applications under development.
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DOS Load and Execute Display
Created a DOS terminate and stay resident (TSR) utility that displayed all
commands executed by the operating system. Used this utility to debug
why early LAN Manager network logon scripts failed. The problem turned
out to be a hard coded environment block size in one of the LAN Manager
logon utilities, which limited the total size of the environment variables
used by the scripts. This information was passed on to NCR/AT&T
and the bug was subsequently fixed.
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