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I've
said the same thing for years - in fact, I think the single largest mistake
Microsoft ever made was making the NT4 GUI *too* much like Windows 95. The
non-technical managers would basically say "well, since you do fine with Windows
95, and this NT thing looks just like it, you'll be fine"
I
agree with the Unix/Linux thing. We've already seen some of that with RedHat's
earlier distros, which started adopting the "install everything by default"
approach we all love... It is only a matter of time before the next great Unix
(specifically Linux) worm hits...
Roger
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Roger D. Seielstad -
MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
Be happy that someone knows it, even if it is just you...
Lots of companies out there don't have anyone who knows it for normal
management let alone anything beyond it and they end up going down some very
bad roads and hurting very very much. There isn't a lot of impetus out there
for people to truly become experts on this stuff because *most* companies
expect to get Windows Admins for a song because there are a glut of people who
"say" they are Windows admins and some of them even think themselves that they
are good. A good quote... "Heck I run this at home, it can't be that hard!".
That one is balanced by the "I run this at home and it works for crap, we
should be using Linux instead as that doesn't have viruses and bugs.".
Both indicate a manager who doesn't have a clue.
AD has changed the ball game for what you need out of an
Admin. You actually need someone who can think and doesn't think answers from
a book should be assumed to be correct. That someone needs to understand
computers, not GUIs.
I was just exchanging emails with Robbie about something
else for a presentation he is doing in March at a conference and my final
thoughts were something like.. I hate hearing that Windows machines are
shitty machines when in reality it is usually because they are run by shitty
admins.
UNIX never went through the shakeout that Windows has to
go through for quality of admins. Linux may have to go through it though.
Basically when people learned to be UNIX admins they generally did it because
they were a geek and liked the stuff or had to for work. A large number of
Windows admins became them because they played with it at home and figure hey,
I can get paid for this. I'm really good at making sure games work on my PC...
joe
Yeah. But since I'm the only one here who understands AD beyond normal
acct management, it wouldn't have been caught anyway.
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Roger D. Seielstad
- MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
Did you complete a Change Control Request
first? ;-)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:23
AM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADC
Question
Nah - this time was because some L-admin (who will rename
anonymous, even though his name appears in this email) whacked the server
without uninstalling the ADC first.
Roger
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Roger D.
Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis
Inc.
Roger:
I was not in your situation with a mix of 2003, 2000 and 5.5 but
I have removed old ADC server entries within the AD with ADSIEdit.
I THINK it was an issue with ADC2000 sp1 or 2 for not deleting
itself.
Clint
Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got an interesting
situation that I'm a bit stuck on, and could use all the pointers I
can get.
Windows 2000 AD in Native
mode, empty root domain and a single domain for 'production' stuff -
users, computers, etc. The forest was built from scratch, including
the Exchange 2000 Schema extensions, and the Exchange 2000 ADC. We're
still an Exchange 5.5 shop, and the ADC was *never* run - didn't even
configure a connection agreement.
The problem is that I
screwed up, and retired (about 6 months ago) the box on which I
installed the ADC. I've just completed installing the ADC for Ex2k3 on
a different server. In the ADC Connector Services snap in it still
shows the original (now non-existant) ADC. Is there any reason to
worry about that being there, and is there any reason to consider a
surgical removal via ADSIEdit?
Roger
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Roger D. Seielstad - MTS
MCSE MS-MVP
Sr.
Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
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