Whats the most hilarious misconfiguration you've come across on the job?

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Certifications A+, Security+, CCNA 01-18-2014 01:51 AM #1 Whats the most hilarious misconfiguration you've come across on the job?

Ok, maybe not "hilarious" but rather something you found that was configured by someone else that you couldn't help but laugh about. Yesterday, we lost one of our SCCM distribution points due to a single drive failure and it has been deemed unrecoverable. Why? Because someone decided to build the server with 3 drives in a RAID 0 config... A single drive failed and now the server will not come up. Whats more? The server was never added to the networker backup jobs so we couldn't restore from there either. Now, I will have to rebuild this server this weekend. I really couldn't help but laugh when we discovered this. I thought it was insane to do something like this on a production server. They had even set it up with different volumes... The person who did it is no longer working at our company (They left for another job about a year ago).

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Certifications VCAP5-DCD/DCA, VCP 5, VTSP 5, MCSA:2008, MCITP: EA, MCTSx5, ITILv3, MCSA: Messaging, MS in Telecom Engineering 01-18-2014 02:08 AM #2

A small 10 day contract job that I did many years ago - a core router connecting supermarket stores to the main office was hanging by its cables behind the rack it was supposed to be in. You'd hope there was a second router providing redundancy, but in a place like that I doubted it!

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Certifications CCNP, CCNP(V), S+ CCIE V(written) 01-18-2014 02:24 AM #3

I did a network redesign for a health care provider some years ago. The entire internal IP space was made up of public IP's that were all over the place. When I was cuttting over the new network the provisioning engineer for the ISP told me about having to filter all there traffic for this customer as the internal IT guy was a idiot.

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Certifications mct: 70-680, a+, network+, security+ (comptia tri-force) project+, ciw foundations, ciw javascript something 01-18-2014 02:47 AM #4

wep wireless used in a lawyers office with no antivirus or firewalls ... because they slowed down his computer

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Certifications TechExam Certified Alien Abduction Professional 01-18-2014 10:05 AM #5

I was called on an emergency in the middle of the night because their fileserver could not boot any more. It was down from its reboot of Saturday morning until Sunday night when I was called. I went down there, checked the DC, pulled the floppy disk from the drive the server was trying to boot from and went back to bed ....

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Certifications A+, Server+, Security+, Network+, ITIL v3 Foundation 01-18-2014 01:54 PM #6

AVG, Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, Panda AV, Webroot, and about 5 toolbars installed. The 5 AV's were, as explained by the user, 'To protect me against virus's. I assumed more was better". 5 Toolbars, Ask Jeeves, Google, Yahoo, and 2 malicious ones.

The original ticket subject line: 'Can't update antivirus, error'.

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Certifications CASP, Security+, Server+, MCP, AAS-Applied Computer Systems 01-18-2014 02:54 PM #7

While trying to fix a person's wireless network, I find his router sitting on a shelf with nothing plugged in (including power).

When I ask about it he responds, "I thought wireless means no wires. What a ripoff."

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