Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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Taking bets, but we just know that this is the cardinal sin of AD. How do so many people, so often, deploy AD without knowing about the names that have to be used? If you get taught one thing about AD, that's it. If you look up AD problems, it's the one thing you always find. It implies that most people deploy AD without having ever seen so much as a discussion about it. How do they even know what AD is or how to acquire it?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084423-company-website
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Used a SAN for a NAS task. Has no idea what a SAN is. Overfilled his SAN (not his LUN) and made the whole unit go read only. No means to clear up space because it's a LUN that was larger than his SAN capacity.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Taking bets, but we just know that this is the cardinal sin of AD.
I am ashamedly guilty of this, too
and we've been living with it for years. I just setup an A record in our AD DNS for www to point to our web host. If I had any issues other than this I would have fixed it by now, but it's not that big of a deal. -
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083822-oh-no-the-feed-service-is-currently-down-nov-7-2017
"oops, we totally blew it when we decided to upgrade the backend during regular business hours.... No, we don't know when it will be fixed."
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@rojoloco said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083822-oh-no-the-feed-service-is-currently-down-nov-7-2017
"oops, we totally blew it when we decided to upgrade the backend during regular business hours.... No, we don't know when it will be fixed."
That one is a pretty major best practice. Deploy off hours. So basic.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@rojoloco said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083822-oh-no-the-feed-service-is-currently-down-nov-7-2017
"oops, we totally blew it when we decided to upgrade the backend during regular business hours.... No, we don't know when it will be fixed."
That one is a pretty major best practice. Deploy off hours. So basic.
Indeed it is.
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@scottalanmiller Many have done it this way because in the past Microsoft "recommended it" and they did not understand the requirements and kept upgrading their DCs with the same domain name....
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@rojoloco Yes, the off hours update would have gone much better.
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I don't know about this one
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084810-dell-h700-upgrade-and-esxi?source=superfeed -
@dbeato said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
I don't know about this one
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084810-dell-h700-upgrade-and-esxi?source=superfeedNot cost effective, but should be fine.
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RAID 5, lost two disks, didn't take solid backups.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2088286-hyper-v-server-2012-corrupt-filesystem
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WAMP on Windows 2008. C'mon, really? Doesn't the fact that you are trapped on a decade old OS tip you off that this is a bad idea?
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Following my rule that topics come in bundles, here is yet another Intel FakeRAID and no virtualization post.
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This f'ing guy keeps wanting to use RAID0 for his backup system, for no reason at all!
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@dustinb3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
This f'ing guy keeps wanting to use RAID0 for his backup system, for no reason at all!
Not for a backup. He's not doing backups. Just a second local copy! And not even virtualized!
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Thought that by paying the high toll for MS Access that even if the system was crappy, that it would at least be quick and easy. Turns out, it's not.
When Access or Excel seem like a good place to store a structured set of data, It's not... ever.
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@tim_g said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Thought that by paying the high toll for MS Access that even if the system was crappy, that it would at least be quick and easy. Turns out, it's not.
When Access or Excel seem like a good place to store a structured set of data, It's not... ever.
Excel is great for a single user and like 15 data points
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Rebooted an array that had failed, and refused to boot after replacing the drive.
Got lucky and was able to pop the failing drive back into the array and get back to operational. Is now asking for advice.
