Exactly. At %dayjob% I was allowed to roll out a couple of 2008 servers (this was pre-R2) and mainly because the SE team didn't have the manpower to deploy file/print/app servers and I am "rogue" enough to push ahead (if they break they're under my management anyhow) without waiting for them to decide we're officially rolling out 2008. One of those "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness" scenarios".
It's only in the last six months that the SE team has stopped using 2003 Server for *their* new server builds, because there is more oversight on their end. My servers are employee-facing and get perhaps 10% of the attention the client-facing systems get. Dave From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: When it rains it pours... +1 Work in a big enterprise, and what you did the other night would take at least 6 months to get done. New docs to write, architectural and security signoff, new U&I test plans to write, new UAT plans to write, UAT certification, new performance test, new equipment move requests, new IP addressing, new cabling requests, new CMDB records, new failover tests, new DR tests, new operations run books, new monitoring rules and responses, ITSM error DB updates, blah, blah. Cheers Ken From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 3:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When it rains it pours... Quit yer griping... :) ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:27 PM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 2nd biggest %nightjob% client (17 employees) sends me a text message today: "Ok we're ready to jump on your recommendation of a new server and move to SBS 2011, get us a quote and we'll order ASAP". At least these guys aren't virtualized (yet) and I won't have the risk of what happened Saturday. Finally, I get them off the server that has SBS 2003 with SQL that has just SATA drives. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
