Inherited Quirks

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Not sure if this is the best part of the forum for this thread but it seems the most appropriate as its only likely to apply to people with reasonably large networks/domains.

What inherited quirks/bad designs/implementations do you have to put up with at work?

The one which annoys me most at work is our internal network uses a public IP addressing scheme, from a random Uni in America. I'd love to change it but most of our network is mission critical (999 control room/links to stations) so it would take a crazy amount of planning/downtime.
Although it doesn't cause any real problems, recently a consultant said it might cause some issues when we implement Microsoft Forefront later this year.
Also our internal domain name is the same as our external URL, which was fine until a few weeks ago when we moved our website to external hosts. A small tweak sorted that problem out though.
 
We have a partially externally managed printing contract, they have setup it up so that print jobs from remote sites come back across the (very slow) links to HQ then back to the remote site. As you can imagine printing anything other than text is a nightmare.
 
Yeah - I forgot that that can sometimes be a VMware XP Virtual desktop in between the Terminal Server and Citrix, but thankfully it has the proper Citrix client and not useing the web portal.
And I thought the Citrix setup we have at work was crappy! Ours has automatic failover, meaning that any server in the citrix farm fails, the rest automatically fail too!
Thankfully we are getting rid of it very soon.
 
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