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I’m exhausted. I don’t bitch about personal stuff much on this site but my life is clearly affecting my work situation as well as my upkeep of this blog. Between work, part-time college, a pregnant wife, and being VP of … Continue reading →

Taking ownership of this network through the migration (post) has helped, in my mind, solidify my position in the organization. The urge to leave has lessened and though relations with my boss are still rough, the friction ebbs. I’ve come … Continue reading →

Remember my rant about not paying retail prices (post)? Of course not! Well, the point was to get a dedicated sales rep and a business account when possible. Not only can they offer better pricing but they also provide personalized … Continue reading →

Stuff keeps breakin’! This week, when we shutdown the old domain controller, everything broke. Many staff couldn’t do anything. I realized quickly that all of their computers had their DNS manually set. The old server no longer existed and nothing … Continue reading →

So a week after server migration success some problems are cropping up. Notably, when accessing webmail users cannot just login with their username and password. Trying that, the login screen comes back filled in with mail.domain.org/username in the username field. … Continue reading →

The consultant provided me with a link to a page from WindowsNetworking.com (site) to deploy network printers via Group Policy (link). It’s a pretty straight forward setup. The only part that didn’t work for me was adding the PushPrinterConnection.exe login … Continue reading →

An end of project summary is a good thing to send to staff, especially if you’ve needed their assistance with any part of it. We all know that staff are primarily concerned with their desktop first, and rightly so. Therefore … Continue reading →

A handful of staff stopped me in the hall or came by my office to not only congratulate me on a completed job but also to express astonishment at how little impact this migration had on their workflow. I’ll take … Continue reading →

As much as I love projects, they do make me stress and get critical of myself. I received a couple of messages of support today such as one commenter writing “if the users are happy, servers are migrated, and you … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →