![]() It was managed centrally and best of all there was nobody available with the rights to disable the thing. Internet access was locked down Symantec Endpoint Security was set to Ha ha!. I had in my grubby little mitts the domain administrator’s credentials – necessary for the work I had been asked to do – and yet could still accomplish nothing. It is safe to say that this network was run by some of the darkest of network Nazis I have yet to encounter. ![]() The office in question was a small two-PC affair that was part of a much larger network. Round two saw me arrive early, only to discover that the required install media for Office was not present. This was apparently too late the individuals with the keys to let me into the building had left. I ran into a multi-vehicle accident and showed up onsite three minutes late. The location in question is on the other end of the city from my home better than an hour away. The project started out with a misadventure. It could stretch to four hours in the absolute worst case. Depending on the speed and number of the PCs, that’s maybe a couple hours’ worth of work. Remove Office Pro and install Office Standard to ensure proper license compliance. It was simple enough go to the site, rename and readdress up to five PCs to meet the newest conventions. One recent job has left me feeling somewhat ambiguous. Some contracting jobs are terrible 14 consecutive hours of testing cables and ghosting workstations will leave me a gibbering mental wasteland. I love the sexy ones that task me with rolling my own data center or spending a week’s worth of off hours poking holes in someone else’s network.
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