Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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@DustinB3403 said:
The topic is all kinds of backwards, he offers nothing of what his goal is, just want he wants to do. Has no concept of how everything should work, and is just extremely ill informed.
But this is typical. So we start with the standard, let's back up and ask what the goal is first before we consider any solutions.
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This guy gets super defensive when he gets called out for attempting to do the worst possible things. Doesn't even manage a rational defense, actually proves why he was wrong in his response. http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1237579-vmware-workstation-required-for-xp-32-bit
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That topic sounds an awful lot like several others asking where to find cracked CD keys and what not. Doing everything illegally because it's "free" to do so.
Yet when the system needs support or work done, nothing can be performed because they aren't legitimately licensed. So then comes the question of "How do I do <insert something completely weird> ?"
The answer is always, license your self properly and upgrade as needed. Trying to maintain 20 year old software without any upgrades is insane.
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What's weird is he was ONLY trying to spend money and specifically unwilling to even talk about free options, he claimed for the opposite reason. Since when is someone too poor to do something free but can waste money on a paid solution that is more effort? Makes zero sense. That guy is scamming his clients and hoping no one notices. He's just creating something complex so that he can charge more for supporting it.
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Here's another topic for the pile where an IT person is a contractor for a customer assisting with domain administration, yet there are outside vendors who have domain admin rights, and are changing other domain admin credentials.
Nothings been burned yet, lets find out what's left after the smoke dissipates.
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http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1271282-windows-sbs-2003-standard
- Not virtualized
- No full backups, only data backups
- No DR or recovery plan
- Has not updated the OS for a dozen years
- Running SBS instead of the normal OS (not so much a BP as just rarely good)
- Stayed on a long dead server architecture, IA32 has been dead for servers for eleven years
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@scottalanmiller you forgot one.
- Attempting to reinstall SBS 2003!
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller you forgot one.
- Attempting to reinstall SBS 2003!
Well he is probably screwed on that point given his lack of other options. He would need new hardware to go to pretty much anything else. He could update to 2008 but he is limited to what will run on 32bit hardware and, I assume, needs to recover his lost data.
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For an Unlimited amount of money, I may be able to help him
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http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274399-bad-language-frusterated-with-server-boot-drives
- Not using backup software
- Not virtualizing
- Pulling drives out of a RAID array to "do stuff with them" and putting them back
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@scottalanmiller said:
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274399-bad-language-frusterated-with-server-boot-drives
- Not using backup software
- Not virtualizing
- Pulling drives out of a RAID array to "do stuff with them" and putting them back
haha.... sounds like someone needs to learn some of the basics of systems administration and configuration... should really make a book on that... and use these as wonderful examples of what to not F^&^((& do.
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It gets worse... no RAID for the system, SSD for boot but not data...
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I think that the worst thing there is he didn't word-wrap a single sentence, until the very end. Everything is it's own line until the end.
And his response for it being broken is "I have no time to learn". There is no way someone is busy 24/7 that they don't have enough time to learn something new that will save them work in the long run.
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He has a great attitude, though. He's taking everything constructively and looking to make changes. I'm impressed.
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Maybe he's one of the few that recognizes the folks commenting are not out to attack him, but help him... and for free!
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Well he did have to leave for lunch to take a breather.
IT Really shouldn't be so stressful that people have to rage like this. Had he come the a community and asked before attempting to implement he'd already be in great shape.
Currently he's completely bent and cooling off. So helping him to understand may work, but he'll need a good amount of hand holding.
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@dafyre said:
Maybe he's one of the few that recognizes the folks commenting are not out to attack him, but help him... and for free!
Seems that way. It was a tough start too, with him being pretty upset and venting in the OP. But immediately he went rational, explained the hows and whys and stuff and is really looking for good feedback.
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I guess that thread shows the quality of IT staff you get when you pay them a non-profit company IT wage... incompetent with a chance of irrational. Talk about "take whatever you can get". Hope he keeps his head out of his ass after SW fixes what he broke (for free).
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@RojoLoco He's had a chance to cool off a bit after he gets some food in him, lol. He's doing things the "way he's always done them" -- and that's not a bad thing (Best practices aside), because it always works...until it doesn't.
At best, he learns a bit from Scott about RAID 1, RAID 10, and virtualization. At worst, he just stays frustrated and keeps digging himself deeper.
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Well he's getting his RAID 10 Array built now, and should report back soon. I'm steering him to XenServer. If other want to stir him in other directions go ahead.
