How many hours do you work?

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Seriously?

I’m sitting here repairing an Exchange server which has gone belly up. Last week it was a comms room move and the week before that it was a network migration (workgroup to SBS). All of this was out of hours work on top of the usual 9-5 stuff. Make that 8 till 5, somebody always phones me on the way to the office.

I dunno if I want to count the amount of hours to be honest, it would be a ‘WTF’ moment!

Anybody else stressed out right now?

Also the Exchange server would have been ok if one of the support guys had installed SP2 and the 16GB mailbox store cap would not have kicked in, grrr!

 

The wife did say my eyes look 'weird' just now, hee hee!

On the plus side Exchange is back on-line, just need to install SP2 and then open up port 25 on the firewall and stand back!

Oh, and the reg hack to go over 16GB!

May kick someones head in at the office tomorrow, looks like one of the support guys has taken off *all* the limits on the Exchange server so it was only a matter of time before this happened.

 

LOL!

A highlight for me today (in my day of complete hell) came about as one network I support has been taken over by another company. Basically the company has been bought out and some in-house IT guys have taken over the network support. Fair enough, can’t win them all.

Anyways one of the IT guys phones me today and asks if he can use the DC and Exchange server in the ‘new’ domain as member servers . Looks like they are putting in a child domain as part of their corporate infrastructure and using the original servers as print servers or something like that. I said there was no problem with that and told him where the restore disks where so he could flatten the servers and then he could do whatever he wanted with them.

A few hours later the two servers disappear from the monitoring system we have so it looks like they have been taken offline and wiped.

10 minutes later I get a phone call and it was the random IT guy I was talking to asking why the domain administrator password I gave him doesn’t work as he can’t log onto any of the PCs.

I paused and said. “Have you taken the DC offline?” He replied ‘ yes’ as it was getting formatted. I paused again and said “So you are trying to log onto the domain with no domain controller?” In a panic he said he would phone me back and hung up!

I had just finished telling one of the guys in the office what had happened when he calls back asking for all of local admin passwords for 50 odd PCs!

Just to help the guy out I remembered what the original domain admin password was (this was going back 2 years) and the profile was still cached on some of the PCs when we installed the network.

 

It depends on demands.

My contract is 40 hours a week.

If I am on call for the week, I am expected to answer calls up until midnight.

We have a lot of work on at the moment, and I have included some weekend work as well. But my manager tries to let us all have a 'rest' as it were. If I were the solo IT guy, it would be hell and damnation.

The most hours I have ever worked in a week was 82, back when I did manual labour and forklift driving.