Migration Day 3 - I'm Out

When I envisioned this migration being documented on this blog, I expect a well planned success story with me as the hero. Man, does reality suck. And embarrassingly so.

I spent all day fighting with...well, I don't know what I was fighting with but apparently it was trivial. The consultant remotely fixed the permission issue after I left work today. He explained what he thought was the problem, which I didn't quite understand, but hopefully Tuesday is only minor chaos.

My day involved a lot of back and forth. While I did deploy the network printers and drive mappings, setup every users' desktop profile, and rewired the server room, the permissions issue monopolized my time. At one point, after I stopped and reset all the shares, everyone suddenly had permissions to write to every folder. No user was responding to the explicit rights I had set. Until that moment I had assumed all staff had rights to modify every folder because every folder had been setup to allow the Everyone group to modify. I had not checked memberships because I felt any changes prior to migration would possibly break something. I found out today that all staff who started prior to my arrival had been given administrator privileges. Holy crap! What the hell was the previous IT Manager thinking?! And Holy Crap! Why hadn't I checked this before?!

If the consultant is right and he fixed the issue, I'm thinking Tuesday should be relatively smooth. The impact on staff has been light, though I do expect confusion because no one will know where to find their files, but hopefully everything works the way it should. Yet I'm having a hard time calling this a success. I feel like I made way too many mistakes and I'm certainly feeling the limitations of my knowledge. I know no migration goes off without a hitch and I did miss 3 days this week in training, yet I feel this could have/should have gone better. The rest of the week is going to be spent doing cleanup so we'll see what comes.