We Spring Forward This Weekend???

[GTaudiophile]

Wow, seems early this year.

What's the deal with that?

 

[Pacemaker]

It probably seems early because it is early. They changed the dates.

 

[hdeck]

they moved it up as a means to save energy or some nonsense

 

[LookingGlass]

As ABC news said the other day. "At the time, it seemed like a good idea." This is costing billions to change the time ahead. Need to check our computers, the may not recognize the change, probably not. I hate setting the clocks ahead.

 

[Doodoo]

Yep..starts early and ends later....I believe it ends sometime in early Nov now instead of Oct. I don't think they thought this one through too much...i know the utilities are all scrambling to get their electric meters and software updated. And just think...in December of 07 they have the option of switching it back to the old schedule.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Wow, seems early this year.

What's the deal with that?

535 bored idiots in Washington is the deal.

 

[jlbenedict]

Energy Policy Act Of 2005

 

[Wapp]

We're putting in a lot of extra hours here to make sure everything transitions ok. Unfortunately, you guys pay for our over-time. Gov't contractor ftw!

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Wow, seems early this year.

What's the deal with that?

Have you been living under a rock?

 

[JRock]

Yea it was a fun rollout to patch all servers and workstations to make sure they were aware of this change...

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: JRock
Yea it was a fun rollout to patch all servers and workstations to make sure they were aware of this change...

That's been the easiest thing about this whole ordeal.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Will Windows update the time for me as usual?

 

[iamwiz82]

Not if you are still on Windows 2000. There is a patch for XP.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Wow, seems early this year.

What's the deal with that?

Have you been living under a rock?

Yes, the DC rock that is. These issues are front and center here.

It's just a thread title, mmmkay?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Not if you are still on Windows 2000. There is a patch for XP.

Did Windows Update get it for me already you think?

 

[JRock]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JRock
Yea it was a fun rollout to patch all servers and workstations to make sure they were aware of this change...

That's been the easiest thing about this whole ordeal.

Are you being sarcastic? It was such a pain to get the GPO to work properly with 2000 and XP machines and a mixture of Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007

 

[SirChadwick]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Not if you are still on Windows 2000. There is a patch for XP.

Did Windows Update get it for me already you think?

If you're on XP, then yes if auto updates are enabled.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JRock
Yea it was a fun rollout to patch all servers and workstations to make sure they were aware of this change...

That's been the easiest thing about this whole ordeal.

Agreed, and luckily all I'm responsible for, so I look golden.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Not if you are still on Windows 2000. There is a patch for XP.

Did Windows Update get it for me already you think?

Link

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: JRock

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JRock
Yea it was a fun rollout to patch all servers and workstations to make sure they were aware of this change...

That's been the easiest thing about this whole ordeal.

Are you being sarcastic? It was such a pain to get the GPO to work properly with 2000 and XP machines and a mixture of Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007

I was being serious. I used Intelliadmin for the updates to the OS. Why not create a few different GPOs with WMI filters? I have my workstation OUs broken down by OS, when make a GPO and have it filter by Outlook version through WMI.

EDIT: Try still being on Exchange 5.5 and having BES. :roll:

I'm stuck with any appointments made on a Blackberry showing one hour ahead in Outlook.

 

[JRock]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JRock
Yea it was a fun rollout to patch all servers and workstations to make sure they were aware of this change...

That's been the easiest thing about this whole ordeal.

Agreed, and luckily all I'm responsible for, so I look golden.

How did you do you rollout? F'n WSUS server wasn't playing nice so I had to use GPOs so that I wouldn't have to manually update 200+ Servers and 1000+ workstations

 

[JRock]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JRock

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JRock
Yea it was a fun rollout to patch all servers and workstations to make sure they were aware of this change...

That's been the easiest thing about this whole ordeal.

Are you being sarcastic? It was such a pain to get the GPO to work properly with 2000 and XP machines and a mixture of Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007

I was being serious. I used Intelliadmin for the updates to the OS. Why not create a few different GPOs with WMI filters? I have my workstation OUs broken down by OS, when make a GPO and have it filter by Outlook version through WMI.

EDIT: Try still being on Exchange 5.5 and having BES. :roll:

I'm stuck with any appointments made on a Blackberry showing one hour ahead in Outlook.

That sucks... We're pretty good with keeping Exchange up to date. Esp once 5.5 was offically no longer supported. Prob. will migrate from 2003 to 2007 in the next few months...

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Wow, seems early this year.

What's the deal with that?

Obviously you are not in IT. If you were, I would say BAN

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Wow, seems early this year.

What's the deal with that?

Obviously you are not in IT. If you were, I would say BAN

LOL, no kidding. I've gotten a total of about 10 hours of sleep this week.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: JRock

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JRock
Yea it was a fun rollout to patch all servers and workstations to make sure they were aware of this change...

That's been the easiest thing about this whole ordeal.

Agreed, and luckily all I'm responsible for, so I look golden.

How did you do you rollout? F'n WSUS server wasn't playing nice so I had to use GPOs so that I wouldn't have to manually update 200+ Servers and 1000+ workstations

The servers I'm responsible for are stand alone point of sale installations. We monitor and update through a program called Remoteware which can execute programs\scripts under the Services account. I simply wrote a script to execute the hotfix, and check errorlevels. None of 2500 failed.