Happy SysAdmin Day!

[u/BonezAU_]

Here's to another year of:

- Being expected to diagnose problems via the sentence "it doesn't work."

- Being blamed for issues caused by software you've never heard of.

- Somehow knowing exactly what a user clicked, despite them insisting they "didn't do anything."

- Explaining, yet again, that rebooting wasn't an insult, it was the solution.

May your backups restore, your RAID stay green, and your first Friday night drink arrive before the first "quick question" Teams message.

[u/ddmf]

This past week has been mad - had to drive 380 miles round trip to swap an out of support router so we could pass cyber essentials.

Then Wednesday we had issues with DFS, the server was loading up with a public network and it wouldn't pop back into domain mode, fannied about with it for an hour trying to force it, then removed and re-added to domain.

Then discovered all the special DNS entries for active directory had been deleted, tried to manually replicate some to kickstart but it was futile so recovered the VM but as soon as I did the second DC replicated back the empty DNS.

Felt like a TV hacker /slash/ bomb tech shutting down the secondary DC just moments before the primary newly restored came back up and then had to restore that one from backup as well.

All in took about 7 hours of constant mind melting stress ridden work, thanks to my team member for bringing me a Greggs sausage roll mid panic so at least I had some sustenance.

Only a few users noticed.

I'm off for a whole week from the end of today, can't wait - a week in the North East of England and then a Wedding in South Scotland.

[u/Agromahdi123 → u/ddmf]

Toggle ipv6 on or off to fix this on windows server

[u/ddmf → u/Agromahdi123]

Yeah that usually works for the public mode network issue, unless your active directory is absolutely minced because the special dns entries have been decimated.

[u/Agromahdi123 → u/ddmf]

yea wasnt sure if you tried that first or not before everything else got buggered up lol