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12.16.03 8:03am(0 comments)

Damn…

I had to drive back up to take care of some stuff in the toledo office... Unfortunately, I'll have to go back to Dayton. There's lots of stuff for me to do while I'm in town though.

Apparently the PRI up here is now having issues and the email server quarantine issue wasn't resolved either. In addition, we have some other issues with exchange that prevent us from starting it up the service again, so Brandon is here (thank god) to help out with that issue while I deal with the others.

As an added bonus, there were two accidents on the highway, stopping traffic (at least I wasn't in them). But wait, there's more! I get back to my office and it looks like it's been hit with a tornado, empty motherboard boxes tossed on a random pile of computers, papers laying around, etc. Don't get me wrong, a slightly messy desk is okay, but this is a bit much. Oddly enough, none of the papers askew were the two papers I needed to call the antivirus folks. Lord only knows where those are.

At least I was able to pick up Tommy before I headed to toledo. We had lunch at polleyeyes, and I got a much needed beer.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it through this conversion without a trip to the mental institution. It's starting to get ridiculous.

12.06.03 5:41pm(4 comments)

Jesus Tap Dancing Christ!

So yesterday, NEC extended the dmark upstairs and got the PRI up. We got our DID's and were able to convert the data in the switch fairly easily.

I thought things were going well.

I even went to dinner at carrabas with the NEC folks, on their dime. Got to have some drinks, eat great food, hang out, and listen to bad jokes. It was nice. Let me tell ya, these folks are cool and really great to work with. I have no idea how they handle these high stress situations all the time. I don't want to go through this crap again for a long time (although I probably will when they move the fricken toledo office) and they do it for a living! Incredible!

So last night, the people next door (probably in town for the PE teacher convention) decided to bring their screamin' kid with them. This kid wasn't crying like normal children... it was screaming... like getting abused about ready to die screaming... If I weren't so tired from being woken up at irregular intervals throughout the night, I would've called and changed my room. But alas, I got hardly any sleep instead... and then no breakfast in the morning.

I wasn't doing all that great when I got to the office....

So we decided to cutover the network at noon, while everyone in the office was away at a luncheon of some description, so we could get a headstart on testing the VPN and setting up the connection between the PBX's. We did as instructed and switched the t1 to the router that was all setup to go by the cisco tech. Except, the config was missing. It wasn't there at all. It was like it had been wiped. After some round aboutness, I was able to get the config back on the router, but the VPN tunnel wasn't up. We ended up calling the cisco tech back in so that he could troubleshoot the vpn. I did some messing around with the pdc here and was happily setting up accounts when I was disconnected from my servers in Toledo.

The power was bouncing in Toledo, the ups battery was farked, and the exchange server won't come back up.

So now, we did have the power problems that I had predicted on wednesday ("the only other thing that could possibly go wrong now is if the power would go out!"). Way to go Kristy... fabulous...

However, the power came back on and the ups is hangin on by a thread... The VPN tunnel is up.. and they're working on the PBX connections so that we can possibly do the port on the PRI and cutover, maybe tonight. These NEC people are made of steel...

It's still going to be a long night...

12.05.03 6:01pm(2 comments)