Re: Poweredge server powering down by itself using SBS 2003


"Mariette Knap [SBS MVP]" <mariette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In news:54DC7648-42DE-424C-ACD6-8E04603A1227@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Manny Chopra <MannyChopra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The hardware person that installed the software for me suggested that
> > we do not finalize the installation, because it tries to convert the
> > server from a workstation to a domain controller? He suggested that
> > we do not configure it as a domain controller, we are a small dental
> > office and do not need those features in our network. Am I using the
> > right software by using SBS 2003, or have we just configured it
> > improperly? Also, how do we finish the installation without
> > converting it to a domain contrller? Thanks.
>
> Manny,
>
> Please, kick out these so called 'specialist'. If they install SBS for you
> and do not know about this issue you can be sure they make a mess of your
> server. Do not let them touch your server and get somebody else. I have
seen
> this happen over and over again.
>
> Don't pay the bill, kick them OUT. These kind of people make me rage.
>
> --
> Mariëtte Knap
> Microsoft SBS-MVP
> One of the Magical M&M's
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Mariette,

This is not uncommon though. Right now I can point to two "installers" who
have told the customer they know what they are doing yet one of them has
sold them on using WinXP Pro as a server (using a Celeron no less) with 11
users (how's that gonna work!) while the other guy took over my job when I
left this idiot of a boss and he can't figure out why the Pop connector is
putting all the incoming email in the System folder. A third who signs his
email as "Network Support" connected a Dlink router to a DSL modem and the
lan side to the PC but then connected the USB cable to the modem and
installed the dang PPOE software from Bellsouth and wondered why the router
wasn't working.

I think we have all seen out share of idiots who have built a PC or two and
just because they know how to run a Quake server think they are Admins. In
fact there's a great new Blog, Admin Idiot Stories....




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