Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jun 1 12:49:31 CDT 2010
Hi Janet: If the tech you have is so good as to be able to do a proper install it may be worth doing exactly that. It should not take longer than a day and if it cost one thousand dollars it will be cheaper in the long run. A friend had an expert from a company called StrangeLoops do his commercial web site, cost him a couple of grand and it was the best investment he ever made, he says. In our case, we had the very best Guru from here go over the product item per item and the install was apparently done correctly. All that he could recommend were a few small adjustments... which we did... or a complete re-install but no guarantees that it would solve anything. Then there is Microsoft, they do have some very good people who can assist with an install and it might only cost a few hundred. I would recommend you dump the specs; user lists, policies etc and do a complete data backup, get another set of hard drives and replace the ones you have and do the complete install yourself with the help from your remote guru IT guy. You could do it all via a laptop, webcam and remote connection. It should not take anything more than a day and you would definitely be an expert by the end of it. It would of course blow a weekend but I am sure your office would compensate. Just a thought. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet Erbach Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 10:07 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Are not uber Geeks an inspiration to us all? Do you mean the Small Business Server Installation from HELL?? We had a SBS 2008 seriously professional tech (he's done over 200 installations in the past couple of years) remote in and conduct an assessment. He says our server has 1-3 years left to live based on the way the original install was screwed up. He said it was very obvious that the install was done by guys who treated it like a Server 2003 install - which means it's been doomed to die from the start. In cpu-intensive aaaaaagony. Ok, so that's an overly dramatic way to put it. But it is essentially true. The tech recommended using their service to hand-hold and patch/repair our current install every month for a year or so, and then start over with a clean install. But their monthly fee for said service is WAY out of the ballpark, so I'm back to hunting for someone local with enough experience to help us. But that was before you suggested the exorcisim/holy water approach. It may well be easier to find a local priest with SBS 2008 experience than it has been finding a consultant!! Thanks for asking...it helps to have a sympathetic audience! ;) Janet On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > I saw that too... very funny. > > So how is your MSBS doing? > > A client that I have been dealing with, recently, when a fellow IT guy > added > a new user, had an entire block of data disappear. Fortunately it was > totally backed up but so freaky and unexplained. It is a strange product to > say the least... real time desktop updates are not a good idea unless every > computer is the same and the install will remain static. > > We have taken every percussion; a blessed cross, brought back from the holy > land, hangs above the black box that holds it, a sprinkling of holy water > and we may have a priest do an exorcism on it if any thing else goes > wrong,...again. I do suspect that some dark cult from the bowels of Redmond > created the beast. > > I hope everything is going well with you. > > Jim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet Erbach > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:25 AM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Are not uber Geeks an inspiration to us all? > > And in case there is any doubt as to the true definition of 'Geek'...:) > > http://xkcd.com/ > > Janet > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > Here is an interesting story from an uber geek. In the following link he > > explains how he hacked together a 200 line interpreter in an evening... > > Boggles the mind it does. > > > > http://rpal.sourceforge.net/oneday.html > > > > Jim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com