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[–] ot_to_know ago 

Personally love these types of challenges, could care less about the previous person. I think this is more the norm, at least around where I live and work, than most business care to admit. Give me the challenge I will take it...

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[–] e0steven 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

No no no you're doing it all wrong! Never update or apply patches to anything! That's how the NSA gets it's backdoors put in! Just look at the FUD they're pushing out to windows 7 and 8. Back doors everywhere, Cortana is just another NSA mole scooping up your data and just handing it over. Never update past Windows XP or maybe 98SE just to be sure.

</sarcasm>

Anyway, that's horrendous. I may not have left my last sysadmin job pristine, but nothing like that disaster.

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[–] sozcaps 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

So sarcasm aside, you're saying NSA isn't spying on people?

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[–] recursive ago 

More like, whether or not the NSA is spying on someone probably has very little to do with whether they're using Windows 10 like voat likes to believe or any other particular technology.

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[–] Kookus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Heh... Sounds like one of my first admin jobs, but I had about a year to get everything in order. Thirty days? Can't be done; not safely and adequately, anyway.

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBS2 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Seriously. Passwords more than one person should have them at a minimum perhaps some kind of documentation kept near the rack?

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[–] buri 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

the poor bastard. I'd have been tempted to nope right out of there. It'd be super satisfying to get it back ship shape though no chance of that happening in the month he was there.

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[–] slope 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Wow... updating a windows server at random could easily kill it, some of us learned that the hard way. This is not a clean and stable thing.

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[–] arrggg 0 points 21 points (+21|-0) ago 

That consultant was an idiot.

Charged in and turned on updates and started rebooting old servers without warning anyone. Actually said "trusted windows to do its thing" before rebooting an ancient pc... Didn't mention backups once until something bad happened. I bet he did all this during working hours too.

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[–] Waspocracy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Agreed. My company is notoriously bad for poor communication. Our IT hardware department decided to update various computers and it crashed the entire business for about 2 hours because the updates affected software that was being used.

What did they learn from this? Nothing, it happened again two weeks later.

My point is that sometimes sysadmins don't update for a reason.

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[–] Terkala 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Could not agree more.

Day 1, you check backups, reconfigure them if you have to. Once that's done, you're allowed to look at other things.

With the kind of money they had, he should have instead written up a proposal asking for either a big increase in budget, or a consulting team to come in and fix that mess. Nobody likes it when the new guy comes in and says "we can't do X task with Y resources, give me more resources. But if you can reason your argument, and pull it off, you look like the guy who just removed a hidden minefield.

This guy went "minefields? What are those? Boom. Boom. Boom. Not my fault!"