Admin from hell - old style

Back again from the dungeons of confusion. It has been a few tiresome weeks but it was all worth it in the end. All of a sudden I received an answer from the dark side and the message was clear "Yes we are ready - GO AHEAD!"

The smile on my face had not seen daylight for many months but now it came - I guess onlookers (if any) would have said it resembled a frown more than a smile... anyhow now was the time and the cutting tools came out, paper & pencil. Yepp, still nothing quite like it - marvellous invention.

So with a paper and pen I started to cut out more than 10.000 users from the main domain, and subdomains, and this and that extra system. Quickplace, web and a whole bunch of applications. Do you think any of the application owners were pro-active in caring for their data... of course not. What about the special department for applications and information management... nope, sound asleep. Well, why would they care - after all it was only 50 servers cram packed with information, and they were all about to leave the shore to set sail on to foreign land, why bother about that !!!

Silly sods - and I bet they have big fat paychecks and fancy company car, for what I say? 

So the Admin from Hell made himself another cup of tea and started the careful work to separate everything, chasing down application owners, informing managers, local admins, information owners, well you know - the works. It was long hours but rewarding work to see the clean cut emerge.

Using the admin process and deleting users from the view "Mail Users" I could neatly remove group by group, but with the 64k limit on group size I had to watch my step not to flood the $NoAccess groups. Also the size of the Admin4 database had to be kept an eye on since every user deletion generates some 6 to 8 documents that need to bounce around the community and I did not want to clogg the network. Then slowly I could see how the gates were closing and everything started to look much better.

So perhaps there are even days in hell when the sun shine

//Old school Jake