Admin from hell - old style

Hello again,

This time the story is about getting a nice present and destroy it and then asking "why is it not working"

There was this thing about security and management of ID files. Naturally this is something that the company should keep close to it's heart and the admins even closer. The security officer had already declared that no id-files should be allowed to be kept on disks... so perhaps they should be air-lifted until requested... what do I know just beeing a simple bastard admin from hell. Anyhow there is this thing in Domino called "Password Recovery" which in ND6 is an elaborate process of hassling the users to get their updated ID-files and mobile directory catalogs without mail-in database names that fail to send from all the mobile users.

Anyhow, on a sunny afternoon it was decided that the existing PWR mail-in database should be chopped ini 2 and they should have what belong to them. Naturally I voiced some concern that the recovery authorities in the ID-files would probably not allow them to recover since most of the Admin team remained on this side of the fence. Voice unheard...

Split, slash, bang and all is well. The new domain set sail and start to leave port in order to embark on new adventures all on their own. No longer having to listed to that old nag in Sweden, blissful living was the ticket to ride. But just as they start to leave the dock they discover that lot of PWR are missing and the once they have are "difficult" to recover. Surprise, surprise... and fat bastard enters the scene from behind a crate of rotten harring.

So what do we do - "serve and protect !  " is our motto so we start to scavenge the fileservers and disks for ID-files. And like magic from secret layers ID-files start to appear and in huge numbers too. Not an easy thing to find the right one so one of our more brainy members builds a database that can collect id-files from a folder and then copy them to individual documents and populating some fields with interresting information such as FullName, OU1, OU2, O, Dates etc. etc. It's a point-and-click application presented to the delight of the crue on the new ship at the docks. The boat is hanging by just a few cables to the dock so we provide them with the new toy and tell them to keep it safe, keep it close.

So we are removed from accessing this new jewel and they immediately decides to add some more elaborate functionality, logging etc. You have already guessed what happens next. It stops working but to admit to such a silly thing would of course be bad for face so instead I receive a mail where they in a slightly irritated tone ask if there really is no easier way to use this application we gave them than to manually add the ID-files one by one...

Duuh...

I don't know why I am doing this... really...