Iamthefallen's Journal: I R sysadmin!

As a followup to This.

Our sysadmin goes under the knife today, so I get to put on a new shiny hat and pretend I know what I'm doing with servers and networks. First order of the day, figure out why the Exchange backup failed.

Second order of the day, impose fear, terror, war, pestilence, disease and death upon the users.

I am become sysadmin, destroyer of Outlook appointments.

I'd link you to BOFH for advice

[eglamkowski]

but 1) you won't have the time today, and 2) you seem to have the right idea anyways :)

Pestilence AND disease?

[FortKnox]

...pestilence, disease

Same thing, bro. Don't want to overdisease the population...

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[Iamthefallen]

Oh, look at Mr. Thesaurus here, pointing out synonyms.

That's it, I'm changing your password to "Iambutauser,Iwillnotquestionthewisdomofthesysadmi n" and removing your ability to change it.

I appreciate your new attitude, but ....

[Degrees]

I appreciate your new attitude, but I have to admit, your boss' management-fu is truly impressive.

You now have three weeks to implement the Daylight Saving Time shift. It's up to you, padawan, to choose to do it now or wait until the week prior....

;-)

(Of course, this is meant in humor, and I'm hoping he already pushed out the change).

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[Iamthefallen]

Don't get me started...

DST change is a huge deal for us, and affects lots of systems and applications. We're still waiting for the last and final patch from Microsoft before updating the systems. The regular sysadmin will hopefully be back by then, but I think we'll both be checking in that weekend to make sure our stuff is working OK.

I still have to update some classes doing date conversions to and from UTC before the change occurs.

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[Degrees]

The biggest pain point for us is that GroupWise stores meetings/appointments in its database as UTC timestamps, and asks the host OS (Winders, usually) when that timestamp should be. So for all the meetings/appointments lodged in the database prior to the workstation patch, those appointments are now off by one hour (post- DST patch). We are going the proactive route; we patched last Monday, so that all future appointments are correct. But we do have people that schedule meetings two months (or more) ahead

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[Iamthefallen]

Yep, we have the same issue in some our systems. The new stuff we're working on will check if the date is before the 2007 DST change or not and use the correct formula to translate it, but the older systems don't have that logic.

I'm planning to post some about our issues in the near future.

What is best in life?

[Captain Splendid]

To fuxxor your lusers, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their boxen.