Comments on: A Network That Runs Better Since The Administrator Quit http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/ Spam, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Phishing & Viruses from the Front Lines. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:34:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" : Rule one - know which window you are on http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1459 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:37:56 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1459 [...] Rule one - know which window you are on Seeing this post reminds me that I was my worst enemy last night.  I had an issue on my beta test box that I had to fix before installing the WSUS 3.0 beta and I was comparing the settings in IIS to my home server.  Well stupid me was RDPing into both boxes and stupidly changed the settings that worked on the home server to the ones that broke things on the beta server. Yup now I had two broken boxes instead of one. Yeah that was a blonde moment...so then I had to remote into the Server at the office being EXTREMELY careful not to screw anything up in the REAL server and had to compare the settings and permissions in IIS. Some folks have said that they make the background color of each server a different color so they know exactly which server they are working on. So if you don't have the luxury of having multiple 'real' servers that you can remote into, build a vpc/vmware version of SBS.. I have one on my laptop (tablet PC with 2 gigs) and it gives you a good machine to compare to. ...just don't click on the wrong window like I did.... Published 19-08-2006 05:29 by bradley Filed Under: News [...] […] Rule one - know which window you are on Seeing this post reminds me that I was my worst enemy last night.  I had an issue on my beta test box that I had to fix before installing the WSUS 3.0 beta and I was comparing the settings in IIS to my home server.  Well stupid me was RDPing into both boxes and stupidly changed the settings that worked on the home server to the ones that broke things on the beta server. Yup now I had two broken boxes instead of one. Yeah that was a blonde moment…so then I had to remote into the Server at the office being EXTREMELY careful not to screw anything up in the REAL server and had to compare the settings and permissions in IIS. Some folks have said that they make the background color of each server a different color so they know exactly which server they are working on. So if you don’t have the luxury of having multiple ‘real’ servers that you can remote into, build a vpc/vmware version of SBS.. I have one on my laptop (tablet PC with 2 gigs) and it gives you a good machine to compare to. …just don’t click on the wrong window like I did…. Published 19-08-2006 05:29 by bradley Filed Under: News […]

]]> by: BJ Gillette http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1441 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:13:37 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1441 Hi Art and Chris. Thanks for your kind words. Combined with the two companion articles, I hope I've painted a fairly three-dimensional picture of the challenges and realities of network management for many businesses. There's solid method behind what some consider to be Kurt's madness. He had a business to save, and he did it. (Did you get that, Kurt?) Hi Art and Chris.
Thanks for your kind words. Combined with the two companion articles, I hope I’ve painted a fairly three-dimensional picture of the challenges and realities of network management for many businesses.

There’s solid method behind what some consider to be Kurt’s madness. He had a business to save, and he did it. (Did you get that, Kurt?)

]]> by: Chris http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1437 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:51:30 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1437 Excellent story. I believe in the philosophy of not fixing things that aren't broke. Sounds like they had the right idea. Always go with what you know. Excellent story. I believe in the philosophy of not fixing things that aren’t broke. Sounds like they had the right idea. Always go with what you know.

]]> by: Art http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1434 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:57:25 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1434 New. Instant. Classic. New. Instant. Classic.

]]> by: BJ Gillette http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1433 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:52:08 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1433 Hi Mike. I couldn't possibly agree more... I think. Hi Mike.
I couldn’t possibly agree more… I think.

]]> by: Mike http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1428 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:56:16 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/14/a-network-that-runs-better-since-the-administrator-quit/#comment-1428 We have an acronym at work: TSDW (The S#!$ Don't Work). Unfortunately, with 500 remote Windows servers, TSDW is the norm, not the exception. If it is not some process mysterousely hanging, it is a BSOD because the latest version of Symantic AV corrupted the registry. Or my batch files can't tell if a copy worked because there is no return code that I can rely on. We installed 30 patches with 12 reboots to our servers last month, with yet another set of critical patches we need to install this week. Meanwhile, at home, my Linux desktop just runs and runs and runs#da_4&9){~^vswORA-03113: end of file on communication channel Aug 14 19:08:47 mike kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted Aug 14 19:08:47 mike last message repeated 2 times Aug 14 19:08:47 mike kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device Aug 14 19:08:47 mike kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=294914, block=589832 Aug 14 19:08:47 mike kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device Aug 14 19:09:14 mike kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device :) We have an acronym at work: TSDW (The S#!$ Don’t Work). Unfortunately, with 500 remote Windows servers, TSDW is the norm, not the exception. If it is not some process mysterousely hanging, it is a BSOD because the latest version of Symantic AV corrupted the registry. Or my batch files can’t tell if a copy worked because there is no return code that I can rely on. We installed 30 patches with 12 reboots to our servers last month, with yet another set of critical patches we need to install this week.

Meanwhile, at home, my Linux desktop just runs and runs and runs#da_4&9){~^vswORA-03113: end of file on communication channel
Aug 14 19:08:47 mike kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
Aug 14 19:08:47 mike last message repeated 2 times
Aug 14 19:08:47 mike kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
Aug 14 19:08:47 mike kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=294914, block=589832
Aug 14 19:08:47 mike kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
Aug 14 19:09:14 mike kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device

:)

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