Flawless Victory!
Okay, so maybe not “flawless”, but victory nonetheless.
What this is, is a screen shot of me remotely accessing my new, upgraded server, after about 11 hours of work, with a break for dinner. I migrated the complete Active Directory server, as well as the DNS and DHCP servers. (Which for you non-geeks means I moved all the network services that let people get to both this server and the internet.) Trickier still was getting the print services moved to the new server. For some very strange reason, in my opinion, the import of the exported print configuration wouldn’t work unless I had the Windows Firewall turned on for the new Windows 2012 server. That’s just crazy to me. Why does print services care that the firewall is turned off? It should be able to ignore that and just go! Damn Microsoft…. (Grumble, grumble.)
In any case, after 10+ hours of work, the upshot is that most people won’t even realize that the server was upgraded on Monday. (At least, I hope that’s the case.) I may still have a few issues with printing on Monday morning with some people, but, I hope, those will be few and minor. We’ll see, I guess. But, everything else went about as well as I could hope for.
No, it wasn’t quite “flawless”, but I was able to work it all out, so that’s good enough.
Besides, what I really get paid for, in my opinion, is not the fact that I make few mistakes, but that I make virtually no catastrophic mistakes and I can work out pretty much all of the mistakes, catastrophic or not, that I do make.
In shot, I’m very good at what I do for a living. As a character from an old Western, “The Guns of Will Sonnet”, used to say, “That’s not brag, just fact.”
So, now, it’s off to church to give thanks for not completely fucking this up!
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