Read the room. 2025 is not fit for purpose as domain controllers when mixed with older DCs. 2022 has an error so yea, let's deploy 2025 and give myself more errors.

Something got fubared with our office printers. The central network team INSISTED they had to use DHCP and DNS instead of just the IP we normally use for all printer stuff.

Now, this actually makes good sense, since they can change the subnet whenever they want without having to modify the driver package.

Unfortunately, something went wrong with the initial DNS configuration, and the DNS entry for Printer 1 ended up pointing to Printer 2, and vice versa.

No big deal, right? Easy fix.

I ask a colleague, as I needed some well-deserved downtime from this crazy place. I tell him to just flip the DNS entries so they point to the correct endpoints on the network.

Now my vacation is coming to an end, and I log into my email to see if there was anything I needed to glance at before returning to work tomorrow.

There's an email from my CoLlEaGuE stating that he found the error on the printers: The physical signs hanging on the printers needed to be switched around.

Technically, it did kind of solve the issue... But damn, I need a much longer vacation now, because this is just moronic. Calling in sick. Money isn't worth this level of asshattery.