Got hired on to be a sys admin, shortly thereafter the guy that hired me, who was the only one running this place from the get go, quit. This place is an organizational nightmare. Random shares everywhere like the domain controller (which is also being used as an app server, what a brilliant idea!) and exchange server. AD has never been cleaned up so there's user accounts, that are still active mind you, from employees that left years ago, same with mailboxes. All the servers are still running 2K server, some of which haven't been patched in 6+ months (a couple of which I can't even patch now because the sys volumes were created with 2-3gig partitions and they're completely out of space). Very little policy set on group policy, pretty much any user has full reign of their PC with no oversight. No management of anti-virus or spyware, I don't find out about problems until someone complains. Horribly outdated antispam, people were getting dozens, in some cases hundreds, of spam emails direct to their inbox on a daily basis.
The only documentation on anything is what he threw together in the 2 weeks between him putting in his notice and leaving. He didn't keep track of the licensing on a lot of stuff either. Luckily he hired another guy, right after he brought me in, to manage all of the Cisco gear and VOIP stuff (and he's having the same amount of fun with all of that as I am with the servers).
Hopefully we'll get all the money we need from the higher ups. The hardware is 4-5 years old so I'm hoping to buy all new stuff, start from scratch and then migrate everything that's needed over to the new gear.
Let the good times roll. /rant
The only documentation on anything is what he threw together in the 2 weeks between him putting in his notice and leaving. He didn't keep track of the licensing on a lot of stuff either. Luckily he hired another guy, right after he brought me in, to manage all of the Cisco gear and VOIP stuff (and he's having the same amount of fun with all of that as I am with the servers).
Hopefully we'll get all the money we need from the higher ups. The hardware is 4-5 years old so I'm hoping to buy all new stuff, start from scratch and then migrate everything that's needed over to the new gear.
Let the good times roll. /rant