What's mluton done today...........

[Psykomantis00]

A network testing "Thing" I was given......Binned it. Had 6 NICS in it.

 

Well that's interesting. Is this custom? 

[mluton]

Well that's interesting. Is this custom? 

 

Not sure, I had never seen one before this one though.

[mluton]

So the new 5 additions were installed today to a customers training room setup, totaling 16 desktops and 1 server all in a MS Domain environment.

[KemoKa]

The shit shelf at work

TURN THEM ALL INTO ROUTERS!

Sorry, that's always the first thing to come into my head when I see old computers.

[mluton]

Another PC to preset up for an install tomorrow. (excuse my mess)

Fujitsu

i5

4GB RAM

500GB

Bits to do now, Add to MS Domain (SBS setup) via VPN, Install MS Office 2013 H&B, Install sage 2015.

Onsite, Log on as AD User, move sage data over from old HDD. No need to move any other files as this company uses redirected folders for its users.

[GoldSrc]

This thread, me likes.

[THFourteen]

I always find it pays to be nice to the tech guys at my office.

"How come you have three screens"

"How come you have widescreens"

"How come you have a curve comfort keyboard"

Well I'm nice to people that's why.

[mluton]

Job I did no so long ago.

Projector, Pull down screen,Wireless KB & Mouse, Wall connections (3.5mm, HDMI & VGA).

[mluton]

A fun one this morning. A customers server went offline on Saturday morning, So this morning after the bank holiday I went in to see what had happened.

Customer had tried a "system repair" which I cringed at, as this always does more damage.

 

Server was a Dell T310, 32GB RAM, Running Windows Small Business Server 2011.

So to get started..........turned back on DHCP on the modem so that at least they had Internet. Server was running DHCP and DNS so no Internet till this was done.

Then 1st thing with the server was to stop it loop booting and see what the BSOD was, So I turned off auto reboot and got this:

But no new hardware installed so it must be failed Hardware.

Went into the raid controller settings and hey, failed HDD, So remove the drive from the Virtual disk.


Then for the next 5 hours I had to manually to a degree repair Active Directory and missing files from SFC /Scannow that never got put back in place. I could only get the server to boot into AD Restore Mode / Safe Mode.




Then in the end after getting AD repaired it finally booted up.

Why the Dell Perc raid controller never just dropped the failed HDD from the Virtual Disk and carry on working I do not know, It's been a while since I've had a server go down like that.

Happy day's, Just need to get a new disk out to them tomorrow and hopefully the Raid will rebuild OK.

[mluton]

An easy one today, add an additional access point to an existing wifi network already running the Unifi Controller software

[JAKEBAB]

An easy one today, add an additional access point to an existing wifi network already running the Unifi Controller software

You have the sickest job!!! I do have to say this though you have chicks legs lol

[mluton]

Nothing special on Friday and needs to be continue'd tomorrow.

 

Installing a CAB with switch to connect back to customers other CAB 80 meters away. 8 current runs in place, 6 to be Digital phones and 2 to create a 2Gb connection back to halfway switch. Also 8 twin network ports on the walls installed.

Other side of the wall.

Server is at bottom end of the showroom and I was working in the workshop behind me in 2 shot.

[mluton]

What a day..................... a server failure on Saturday night so first thing this morning off to site to take a look.

Diagnosed with dead PSU. Luckily we had another "old" server PSU from a simular model in the office so we "botched" it to get them up and running. So 5 hour downtime wasn't bad.

Server is 10 years old and needs replacing, but this customer doesn't want to spend the money. This could have been RIP for the server, but rescued.

 

and still running 2003....Booooooooo

[ShiftHitTheFan]

 

Found a funny line in some vmware logs.

My uncle runs his own programming business for custom software and debugging. He mainly works on computerized machinery and mechanical systems (think factory programming). I went with him once to a small job in a machine shop. The lathe refused to change gears, and would strip its transmission at least once a year, oh the lathe was the size of a house too .  He found that the programming had a simple error making the gears trying to mesh when stationary (think of trying to shift a manual car when stopped, it works sometimes, but sometimes the gears simply don't line up) 

 

Anyways, in the code, there was at least 20 knock-knock jokes, and a few bible references.

 

that's my story

[mluton]

Just had a delivery for tomorrow's "put together", ready to install next week.

New Small Business Install

 

Fujitsu RX300S8, Dual Xeon CPUs, 32 GB RAM, 4 x 600GB SAS 15k HDD (Raid 10) Rack Mount Server

VMWare Essentials Kit

Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials

Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard

Window Server 2012 Server 5 x User CAL's

APC Smart-UPS C 600 Watts/1000 VA 2U Rack mountable 

TP Link 24 port Gigabit Switch

 

Netgear ReadyNAS with 4TB (Raid 1 2TB)

 

Zyxel Zywall USG 20 Firewall

Zyxel 660 Modem (Not in Pics)

Netgear Modem

Unifi Access Point (Not in Pics)

 

5 x Grandstream GXP2130 v2 Enterprise HD IP Phone's

 

Other services supplied

Cloud Backup

2 PSTN Phone Lines

2 Business Grade Broadband Lines

Cloud VOIP Phone System

 

 

[mluton]

Never had time yesterday, So now it begins...........

[sof006]

<3  :wub:  :wub:  :wub:  :wub:

 

I want to play with them ALL

[mluton]

VMWare installed

[mluton]

Actually got to install the above server today after the building "fit out" was completed.

 

I installed the equipment yesterday in a mess on the floor as the CAB didn't turn up on site.

Then CAB turned up today which i had to put together and get the equipment in

 

Last thing to sort it the hanging modem for the backup broadband line and VOIP phones, Phone extension lead required.

 

Get a POE adapter for a unifi Access point to replace the modem being used as an access point on top of the CAB.

[mluton]

Another Small SMB server setup to put together today for an install in 2 weeks, New Domain, not doing a migration.

 

Fujitsu TX2540

Intel Xeon 2.4GHz

4 x 15K SAS SCSI 600GB Disks

RAID 10 setup

32GB RAM

Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials

HP Internal USB 3.0 RDX Backup Drive

3 x HP 1TB RDX Media

 

ZyXEL ZyWALL USG 60 Unified Security Gateway Firewall (not in Pic)

ZyXel P600 ADSL Modem (not in Pic)

Netgear ProSafe JGS524 24-port Gigabit Rackmount Switch

Netgear ReadyNAS 102 with 2 x 2TB HDDs

APC Smart-UPS C 1500VA LCD 230V

 

[mluton]

Spiders live in servers

[astranger200]

On 03/03/2016 at 7:38 AM, mluton said:

Spiders live in servers

I love this thread.

[mluton]

So yesterday this server died, posted above (dead PSU), Unsure what the issue was but got it up and running again with help from the lads in the office.

So as is was stable on the desk we told the customer it had to be replaced, so this morning a new server turned up for us to P2V so they could get back up and running. All day yesterday the company never did any work as they had no server and the same today whilst we P2V the server,

 

Fujitsu RX300 S8 E5-2620v2, 96GB RAM, 4 x 600GB SAS in a Raid 10

 

This customer had put off buying new hardware for the last 3 years and yesterday and today they cannot work. Investing in New IT equipment is very important and you'll be surprise how many companies put this off. They cannot process any work, use there CRM package, send or receive emails as its an exchange server.

 

I bet they have lost more work today than the cost of the server.

 

Hopefully tomorrow this will be in place and they will be up and running if the 646GB P2V completes OK.

 

Area we worked on it.

 

[mluton]

Been so busy with server installs recently, I should have taken pictures.

 

Just a small job today setting up a laptop for a customer on their domain & Office 2016 H&B.

HP ProBook 450 G2, i5, 4GB RAM 128SSD & Windows 8.1.

[mluton]

Busy day,  Just had my 3rd child. Elsie,  6lbs 13oz.