Thu Aug 25 19:52:07 EST 2005

Projects at Work


In a nice change from the norm at work I've actually had a few fun, and not mundane projects to work on. As I've blogged about before the typical day consists of cleaning up after hapless Windows users who just can't seem to learn to not click on every attachment they get from people who they don't know. Or that still insist on using IE, even though it still has old unpatched vulnerabilities that allow for Drive-By-Downloads of spyware and hijacks. Or my personal favorite, "What do you mean I have to update my anti-virus!?"

A couple of weeks ago I managed an upgrade of a small domain from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2003 and also setup Exchange 2003 for them. Plus there were about 10 of the users who got new Palms. All around it was a nice departure from the norm. Today's fun was to get a small network into a much larger one. As in, a smaller company was purchased by a much larger one. And they didn't want to setup a trust so we got to rip down the entire old domain and then then dcpromo the server into the new one.

Anyway, I hope we keep getting projects like this stuff. Cleaning up messed up computers all the time gets boring fast.

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