Your biggest mistake ever at work (noob moments)

jake108

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Just setup a primary and secondary DC (Windows 2003 R2). Configured AD, DHCP, DNS. The usual setup you know. Realised we could no longer access the Internet. Verified the DHCP had the router listed, checked the replication of the DNS. etc.

Rattled my brains out for hours, realised I had listed the Google DNS servers to resolve the test domain on the network, and pointed the test server querying to the the Google DNS servers.

Local domain > 10.3.0.1 and 10.3.0.2 (correct)

Test domain > Sent to to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 > instead of 10.2.0.1 and 10.2.0.2

All other domains > Sent to 10.2.0.1 and 10.2.0.2 > instead of 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Felt like such a pillock :P

Whats yours?
 
Cannot speak for myself but a friend of mine managed to mess up royally back when I was working for 'insert company name here'. We both started as interns and his boss took him down to one of the server rooms and told him to turn off one that wasn't working properly. Co-incidentally the emergency 'off' button was on the wall next to this particular server. I think you can imagine what happened next...
 
Sent out an email to detail the launch of a new messaging service. The email subject said Massaging Service!
 
I have not once but twice driven to work and then walked home.

I also managed to cut about 40 computers off the network by shutting a fibre patch in a cabinet door.
 
Reversed a van into a forklifts forks the other week. Luckily only broke the number plate and a bit of plastic on the lights.
 
I was setting up a new account record in our CRM database that I administer and in the billing country field I put "Ikea" instead of "India".
Had no effect as I noticed it after I'd created and changed it but it made me chuckle!
 
It was yesterday actually - moved 30 users from one OU to a new top level, set all the permissions and GPOs correctly but forgot to tell our email provider to 'ILM' enable the new OU. Two hours later 30 people had no mailboxes :p
 
getting owned by a "digger" breaking sternum,nice litle hellicopter ride to hospital and being investigated for 12months. not such a good day.
 
Back in the day I managed to accidentally assign deny permissions to everything on the main production file server.

Which was nice.
 
jake108 said:
Just setup a primary and secondary DC (Windows 2003 R2). Configured AD, DHCP, DNS. The usual setup you know. Realised we could no longer access the Internet. Verified the DHCP had the router listed, checked the replication of the DNS. etc.

Rattled my brains out for hours, realised I had listed the Google DNS servers to resolve the test domain on the network, and pointed the test server querying to the the Google DNS servers.

Local domain > 10.3.0.1 and 10.3.0.2 (correct)

Test domain > Sent to to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 > instead of 10.2.0.1 and 10.2.0.2

All other domains > Sent to 10.2.0.1 and 10.2.0.2 > instead of 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Felt like such a pillock :P

Whats yours?
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OMG LOL, such a noob mistake.

(I actually haven't got the slightest clue what he's on about, he might as well be speaking in Russian)
 
Well only been in my first job just a bit over a year now and one of the very first times we did a dress down day I came in my work clothes. We pay one quid for dress down and I didn't have a pound so didn't want to be told of for not having money. Turned out people just laughed at me, told me I didn't need to go in work clothes regardless :(
 
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