OK. Over at the Techno Insane Asylum we have a small problem. Our Windows Systems Administrator has left, and has left our windows servers in a bit of a state. We urgently need some  work doing, to try and rectify about six years worth of neglect.

Now our biggest problem is. Nobody has been appointed as the new systems administrator. Which means, currently there is even less work being done to the servers than there was before. This has recently come to a head, since an important customer has requested a service we can not currently provide without some urgent update work.

So we’ve had a couple of meetings now to try and sort out what’s needed. And to work out what order they need doing, and when they need doing. The only thing we have not discussed is, getting a Windows System Administrator to do the actual work.

So todays meeting went along the lines of working out what was needed. The director chairing the meeting then decided the best thing we could do to quickly get ourselves up to speed, was to ignore the half dozen or so windows servers we have out in the field and deploy a new Windows 2008 server. This new server would be fully up to date, and meet our customers needs. So we can put the other stuff on the back bone. All sorted and decided..

Now, we just need a windows administrator to build the 2008 server (which no one in the asylum has ever used) so we can get it out and running to save us having to pick a windows administrator….

At this point in the meeting (after checking I was not armed and able to put them out of my misery) I retreated into my own little world…