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i've corrupted a few databases in my time
Your biggest mistake ever at work (noob moments)
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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
Sounds like school.
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
Whats yours?
i need to work this out, so you're saying you had set the DNS on the two domain controllers network properties to point to external providers, rather than themselves? No such thing as primary and secondary domain controllers unless you mean FSMO roles
Conversely, I've databased quote some corruption in my time.
and probably true 
i need to work this out, so you're saying you had set the DNS on the two domain controllers network properties to point to external providers, rather than themselves? No such thing as primary and secondary domain controllers unless you mean FSMO roles
Generally treat DC1 as primary and DC2 as secondary. 70/30 rule on DHCP with static IP addresses assigned in AD using Active Role Server (both servers host the catalog). In a nut shell very strict IP and DNS assignment.
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Only on Monday I overwrit a whole database containing out support items/calls for all of our clients. Downtime of about 3 hours.. luckily I had a backup!
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worked for a small ISP
power cut
bigggggg UPS covers the transition to the generator but for cutomer hosting and network routers only (not the staff pc's)
I think "may as well make a brew then while the powers out"
walk into kitchen
turn on kettle
kettle surge overloads generator and UPS
first power outage for customer co-located servers in 4 years!
power cut
bigggggg UPS covers the transition to the generator but for cutomer hosting and network routers only (not the staff pc's)
I think "may as well make a brew then while the powers out"
walk into kitchen
turn on kettle
kettle surge overloads generator and UPS
first power outage for customer co-located servers in 4 years!
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hahahaha, that's amazing. I thought it would've ended with you realising that you can't make a brew, but no! It had a wee twist!
This made me smile
Not my self but our apprentice did a school boy within his first week.
We gave him the unfortunate job of going through all the old desktops and reimaging them ready to be properly cycled through.
As he was going through them, our SQL dev suddenly started to panic and shout a few mumbled words, shortly followed by the phones going nuts...
In the 15 or so seconds of confusion, said apprentice walks up to me and says very quietly "This machine has come up with machine name already exists?".
I wonder over praying it wasn't going to be what I thought it might be...
Low and behold, he had plugged in a computer that had tell tale stickers all over it.
Yep, he had managed to plug in a old test box that was setup but which had never been wiped. Caused conflicts and managed to bring the entire web interface down for over 300 users.
Never before have I seen someone turn such a shade of red before once we informed him of the mistake he made.
A round of teas was not enough justification that day for the poor sod.
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Thank my lucky stars every day that I didn't do what the OP did. I'd never forgive myself.
dhcp is an unrelated role. I suppose primary domain controller could refer to the PDC FSMO roll, but I still don't like the term
In the purple/blue shirt store, I sent someone home with a tv worth £500 more than the one they actually bought
At my last place, I delivered samples of flowers to a supermarket hq, and forgot to give over the paperwork for it. Had to do a 200 mile trip twice
At my last place, I delivered samples of flowers to a supermarket hq, and forgot to give over the paperwork for it. Had to do a 200 mile trip twice
Op knows this. He wants people to think he is ultra l33t.
No... how does speaking about AD, DNS, DCs and DHCP make you 'ultra l33t'? They're well known acronyms.
In the purple/blue shirt store, I sent someone home with a tv worth £500 more than the one they actually bought
Ouch!
Differentiated a big equation, one term of which was essentially 2x, and instead of putting 2 into the answer I put nothing.
Spent at least two weeks debugging the program before it was finally noticed. Idiotic, but it's easy to get a bit blasé when it's stuff you don't even have to think about.
Spent at least two weeks debugging the program before it was finally noticed. Idiotic, but it's easy to get a bit blasé when it's stuff you don't even have to think about.