All in a day

i like days like today. mostly. except for the crazy stuff. i think they are called people. And not my own. i like my people's version of crazy. Anyhow...todays quick recap

the vmware, S.I.S. issue.

followed by the veeam issue since it still running after 8 hrs and had a snapshot. not good. tried to cancel the job. stuck. rebooted the server. cleared the job. cleared the snapshot. notified friday will be a full backup with new start point do to the disk size increases etc. 

construction site visit. Fun!

fiber locate for an orchard at a school. yeah, really. find outside plant fiber pathway to make sure the orchard would not be on top of it. Good news it wasn't.

Figure out what our KACE box is crashing every day at 2AM. found somethings. have a case open KACE case. pizza pizza. anyhow, more to come. Our ftp backup was running at 2am. Maybe conflicting with the zipping of the databases? Backed our ftp backup to 4am. Straws, grasping, i know.

and i hate PKI & certificates. Actually, i hate trying to -fix- PKI and certificates. Going behind 3 years of issues isn't fun. Trying to document and track something that wasn't done by you or your team is a chore. Especially when its not your specialty. But the intertubes being great and all, have wonderful articles on how to implement MS certificates. The lesson learned was, buy MS server enterprise (or better) for PKI in an MS environment. They almost shouldn't put it in standard since it has limited functionality. If you are going to do anything cert based and have ms, don't use standard. 

And board meeting...