The Grumpy IT Admin

Ahhh, the trials and tribulations of being a new boy. Not for me as I am entranced and more concerned with my pension rights, but else where I see new boys come in and make a pigs ear of it. Whenever you start a new job you need to reconnoiter the place, get a feel for who does what, who knows what. these are basic steps. If the company is over 1000 strong and covers more than one site you also need to understand the politics, how the departments interact and who you can safely talk to without having it used against you and most importantly your co-workers. It can be fraught with segregation, demarcation and multi-site or multi-divisional companies can have this doubled with in fighting between these groupings. Stepping in to a managerial role that covers one or two sites and one aspect of IT can be a minefield and is a path trod with care and an open mind, toes need to avoided and support garnered during the probationary period. You need to learn and learn fast.Understand th...

What is it with developer that they feel the need to do completely stupid things without a though for the consequences, just as long as it works? Are they just lazy perhaps? I have come across a couple of instances in the last couple of days where developers have created shares on servers and left them wide open to abuse by anyone being a bit nosey on the network. When I say wide open, I mean barn door wide open. Yes they put the Everyone group in with full control on both the share and NTFS permissions. Yes that’s right, I couldn’t believe it either; they even went to the extent of removing all the other users from the NTFS permissions. Complete and utter thoughtlessness and madness.  I quickly created some groups added the users I was aware of that need access and added that in to the shares and NTFS permissions after I reset it all to defaults. This not surprisingly caused some problems as users that were expecting access no longer could and the support/developer people got th...