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    Dont worry dude. I was trying to get wsus up and running at work and it said .net wasnt installed when it was.

    So what did I do , uninstall!

    As it started uninstalling , the whole office starting screamiing that their mail wasnt working.

    I had broken exchange, our of office
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    Gonzo District BOFH westin's Avatar
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    oh no!

    At least this was just the students, and I had some credibility stored up, our mail server was malfunctioning this morning, and I was able to get that going again... Thanks for the confidence booster.
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    that wasnt supposed to ne a confidence booster :P
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    The more mistakes you make the more you learn.. but if you keep making the same mistake...your insane
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    Gonzo District BOFH westin's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Und3ertak3r
    The more mistakes you make the more you learn.. but if you keep making the same mistake...your insane
    Very true. I had just gotten so used to clicking ok on those warning messages, that I had stopped reading them. Two keystrokes caused me a ton of work.
    \"Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink.\"

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    I done some doosies.....some are very good learning experiences.

    One thing I have done that usually saves alot of time....have a recovery plan...just in case


    backup before fiddling....

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    If you don't already have it, check your backup software for an active directory agent. It'll do backups of your AD and you can restore objects that have been corrupted, deleted, etc. It's generally pretty inexpensive for an agent like that but can save you a lot of $ in time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by phishphreek
    If you don't already have it, check your backup software for an active directory agent. It'll do backups of your AD and you can restore objects that have been corrupted, deleted, etc. It's generally pretty inexpensive for an agent like that but can save you a lot of $ in time.
    Sounds like a great idea. I think I will definitely look into it. I am just glad that all of the users files were still intact. Now I just need to go through the painstaking process of mapping their folder to their profile one by one. I have them all where they can log in now, and I have assigned group policy. They can save to the local disk until I get that worked out. I will just tell the teachers to make them use assigned seats ... All in all it hasn't been as much of a nightmare as I first thought it was going to be. Thanks again to the AO community for all of the suggestions and personal accounts of screwing up .
    \"Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink.\"

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    All in all it hasn't been as much of a nightmare as I first thought it was going to be
    Well, I'm glad your situation has worked out to a point where you see an end in sight. I'm still convinced that servers should come with a health warning label and a pack of Demerol for anyone who has to deal with them daily.
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    Quote Originally Posted by westin
    Sounds like a great idea. I think I will definitely look into it. I am just glad that all of the users files were still intact. Now I just need to go through the painstaking process of mapping their folder to their profile one by one. I have them all where they can log in now, and I have assigned group policy. They can save to the local disk until I get that worked out. I will just tell the teachers to make them use assigned seats ... All in all it hasn't been as much of a nightmare as I first thought it was going to be. Thanks again to the AO community for all of the suggestions and personal accounts of screwing up .
    you might be able to whip up a login script and apply it to all the affected users, with a creative version of the net use command and the %username% variable :>
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