Well, Friday was spent largely getting ready for the night. I also got some policies done so now Word should actually show up on all the lab machines without us getting requests to reset profiles and stuff because of it. While I was in there I also started experimenting with wallpaper. I set a few places up to test before doing the part that's really needed. The backup of Avalon issue was a little interesting and took longer than we would have liked. Killed a bit of time by going to Old Chicago with Dave for dinner. It was a bit busy, but he went and got Christmas shopping done while we waited so that was cool. After that killed more time by rolling out that test to all the rest of the labs. IMHO they look a lot nicer than the default sorta blue color, but we'll see what people say. During this time we also finished all the other work we were planning to do. That went off without any problems except for the two machines which needed keyboards to boot, but we just had to tell those to continue when we physically went up later. I'm guessing we'll hear about some things that were pointing directly at the old IPs after school starts back up though. Eventually the backups finished so we brought up and swapped in the new hardware. That went relatively smoothly, other than the SCSI cable wasn't connected all the way at first. The renaming and adding to the domain went reasonably well, although I ended up rebooting both the other domain controllers just to force replication and connection updates and get them to figure out that the old domain controller with the same name really was gone. Then became the process of selecting everything to restore. The selection was a bit slow, but not bad considering there were 4,066,797 files and over 81GB. Of course after selection finishing up at 4am the client wouldn't properly talk to the server so we had to reselect. Anyways to make a long story short mid-Saturday stuff was in process and everything selected although restoring a bit slow. As of now 2 drives are done and it's just the home directories going. Of course those are the ones with tons of tiny files, but... Saturday evening went over to the house of some family friends where another family joined us too. Haven't hung out with them for a couple years, so that was a good time. I'm tired now though. :(