I'm in WAY over my head

Blogging might be fairly light over the next few days because I'm doing a major overhaul of our company's servers over the next four days or so. I'll blog now and again when I can, but I'll more than likely be pretty busy.

Here's what I'm doing these next few days (of course, during the late hours so that nobody gets put offline that):

Backup everything a few times over
Upgrading NT 4 Domain Controller to Windows 2000.
Replace NT 4 Citrix Metaframe server with Windows 2000 Metaframe Server that I've built (much faster than the POS we have in there), pull the other one offline
Patch to SP4, etc...
Setting up group policies, settings, etc...
Migrate accounting's data to new server
Move hardware between a couple servers, pulling it from offline server
Re-wiring the mess in our network closet
Put it all back together
Test and pray to everything that's holy that it all works.

Then the next project will be to take that old Citrix server, upgrade it to Small Business Server 2003, getting a new switch in the server room (the one we have is crap -- anybody have a nice 12-port or larger switch to get rid of?), recut some of the network cables in the wiring closet (as we have some some 30-foot cables that are going about 3 feet) -- among about 400 other project that need to get done. Ugh...

Posted by Jake on 04/07/04 @ 12:11 PM
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Barney L said on 04/08/04 @ 09:07 PM:
(Patiently waiting for Jake to come back up for air, wishing him the best of treatment from the High-Tech Gods...;-)

monkeyinabox said on 04/09/04 @ 01:39 PM:
Sounds like fun. Not as serious as that, but when I wanted more options for internet access in my house (of course before wireless became more affordable) I got an old hub from work, and drilled holes in key locations of the floor and went underneath the house. I crawled on my back 30 feet in dirt, so that I could have internet access to my laptop in my bedroom. Of course what I really want is to goto the doctor and have an internet LAN card installed in my body and then when I want to update my site I'll just plug the CAT 5 in my belly button and mentally transmit my post. :)

yoleen said on 04/10/04 @ 10:15 AM:
I'm glad you warned us up front that the blogging would be light for a while, otherwise I would have worried, as it's in my nature. It pisses me off that a growing part of corporate culture has you and so many others working so hard and doing so much for THE COMPANY, yet they won't even provide you with minimal health insurance. Grrrrrrrrr. Just pisses me off.

Jake said on 04/10/04 @ 07:55 PM:
Chris: HAHA...I think that's a photoshop job waiting to happen...just need to do it and post it here at some point :-)

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