It was a long week. Currently I'm sitting in my basement listening to music and working. While it may not sound so bad, the music is only to pass the time. Although I do like just listening to music, and it is nice and cool down here. Today is the day that I move ITS over to the new AD domain and fileserver. The migrating the accounts themselves wasn't that bad. They went over pretty smooth. Once I figured out that the reason schdav's account wouldn't move is it was locked out - again. I finally tracked down the source of that today though - Ross, you should fix your server. :) Moving files went well too, but was just too much manual work to sort them out. This week is a captive audience though which is more to test stuff, which I can hopefully script almost completely by next weekend. The office drives are another story. I think we need to talk to people in our departments about cleaning that up before we can bug other departments too much. Between the two we use around a third of the entire administrative side (other than C&M). And that's only one of the 3 places ITS has fileserver space. What else did I do this week? Well after starting to set up another domain controller since it appeared ours would not be tracked down in time, I found them. They had been delivered to a random adjunct office rather than where they were supposed to go (and yes, the correct room number was written on the boxes). You'd think two boxes that are big and bulky would be noticable. Especially since most of the boxes they've been getting that size and larger lately have likely been going to us. Then I got to poke with Windows Server 2003, figure out replication problems (they're designed to work problems out over time, not by switching out your entire DC cluster in a few hours and instantly be stable), and set up a virtual machine as a domain controller at a remote location. Plus punching a few more holes in the firewall on the NAS, mounting things in racks (only to find some rails are missing), finding other places to put things in racks, and stacking servers on tables (aren't big jumps in servers while we wait for rack installs that we can't do until we get the correct rails fun?). The AC stuff on Tuesday went well. Moved one duct, and got them to turn on the old unit and just shut it off at the thermostat - that way if we have problems we can turn it on right away rather than overheating everything. Between the fan in the one spot and moving the ducts, it's in the low 60s at one end (the one with the ducts blowing out) and only up to around 75 at the other (the end with the return), so that's an improvement. Yes, there's a lot of heat generated in that room... Also did more account cleanups. We're discovering new fun things about adjuncts and making polices to fix them. I like the newest one, which will hopefully be formalized soon. I did get cleanup to the point that each username only has an account in one domain (note I said each username, not each person - that's another headache). Only another week or so and then I can delete a bunch more accounts too. The restore of department files finally finished, but it looks like I'll be waiting a while for it to uncompress. Should have waited until after they were moved to where they were gonna be permanantly so I could just leave it and let it go. I'll have to remember that for next week. Oh well, I'm gonna go find more things to do online while I wait for the bar to move all the way across the screen. From what i've seen so far, they've actually managed to make it only take one time across - it's a little shocking to see the time estimates at first, but then you realized that's how long it really took before anyways and it's not so bad. Especially on install when the defaults are sane (like Windows Server 2003 has no services that you'd want to unintstall up and running on stock install (other than messenger, but that's disabled by domain policy) - I was happy when I actually saw it happen). The cool part is it doesn't even ask on install so you can almost just let it install by itself. Tomorrow is moving day for my grandma, so I'll probably be busy with that most of tomorrow. Hopefully no surprises involved there.