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DesertWolf · 03-25-2004, 01:16 AM

Just to let you know at the start this is a rant to let off steam..........
Some of you know me , and also know I haven't been around much lately...
I go a job in Oct. as a Database developer/Programmer with a nonprofit, with the understanding that I would also have to work as the help desk. OK no problem..right?...NO!
I was the first full time IT person that this company had ever had.. they had a string of consultant DBAdmins and Network people throught the years. so what I had dropped in my lap was a set of 3 different databases that should have been related to each other that were not. A network that was streached to its limits, thought they had a brand new Dell Server with Win2K# installed for me to set up for them....they had been running a W2K network up till now, and had 1 server doing fiel server. db server, exchange server, and PDC, on 1 SCSI harddrive....
I am sure my boss was not happy when I told him that all of our anti-virus and backup software would not work on the W2K3 server that they had. And that was befor I told him that the exchange 5.5 server they had planned to move to the new server would not run on it...
So I have spent half the time I was suppost to be developing a new DB and interface keeping the network up and trying to get what I need to get the new server up.
And then last week things hit the fan...I started getting driver errors in the events logs... the main servers 1 hard drive was failing....
so my boss said to order a new server to replace the one that was failing...OK I did that and Dell got it to me in less than a week. But the old server was such a screwed up mes that I have spent 2 days getting precesses that had not been working to work . Tonight I was at work from 9:00 am to 1:30 am and 8.5 hours of that was trying to get the old hard drive info transfered to the new server...
So after this novel I have written( if you made it this far) what is my point ?
I wish consultants and contract labor would put a little more foresight into their work and remember that they probably will not be the ones that have to deal with the system down the road.
If you made it this far...thanks.. As I said at the start this is a rant ...and a way for me to blow off steam.

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03-25-2004, 01:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
DesertWolf Non-profit Techie Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mesa AZ Posts: 76	Inheriting a badly setup network. Just to let you know at the start this is a rant to let off steam.......... Some of you know me , and also know I haven't been around much lately... I go a job in Oct. as a Database developer/Programmer with a nonprofit, with the understanding that I would also have to work as the help desk. OK no problem..right?...NO! I was the first full time IT person that this company had ever had.. they had a string of consultant DBAdmins and Network people throught the years. so what I had dropped in my lap was a set of 3 different databases that should have been related to each other that were not. A network that was streached to its limits, thought they had a brand new Dell Server with Win2K# installed for me to set up for them....they had been running a W2K network up till now, and had 1 server doing fiel server. db server, exchange server, and PDC, on 1 SCSI harddrive.... I am sure my boss was not happy when I told him that all of our anti-virus and backup software would not work on the W2K3 server that they had. And that was befor I told him that the exchange 5.5 server they had planned to move to the new server would not run on it... So I have spent half the time I was suppost to be developing a new DB and interface keeping the network up and trying to get what I need to get the new server up. And then last week things hit the fan...I started getting driver errors in the events logs... the main servers 1 hard drive was failing.... so my boss said to order a new server to replace the one that was failing...OK I did that and Dell got it to me in less than a week. But the old server was such a screwed up mes that I have spent 2 days getting precesses that had not been working to work . Tonight I was at work from 9:00 am to 1:30 am and 8.5 hours of that was trying to get the old hard drive info transfered to the new server... So after this novel I have written( if you made it this far) what is my point ? I wish consultants and contract labor would put a little more foresight into their work and remember that they probably will not be the ones that have to deal with the system down the road. If you made it this far...thanks.. As I said at the start this is a rant ...and a way for me to blow off steam. :butt: