I walked into a job....they are using Workgroups!!! Ahhh!

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This place is big enough to implement Domain model, but I started a new job and they are using Workgroups!!! We have Domain controllers, but the some workstations log on locally while others use domain authentication.

This is the worst part...I'm training with the guy who has been responsible for updating the network. WE are essentialy peers, but he has more seniority, and that matters at this place.
He is a complete bonehead! In most scenarios I will give someone the benefit of the doubt, but his priorities are completely skewed.

Things I walked into.


1) No documentation of devices or network topology. No network topology diagram and rough excel file with IP addresses.

2) Computer naming scheme is nonexistent in portions of the network. Some portions are ok, but others will neglect computer names altogether.

3) Administrator password given to NOn-IT staff when initial computer rollout was made.
This means a temporary worker with little computer skills has access to the local administrator password for workstations running workgroup model.

4) Workgroup model with partial domain model. Its not a hybrid model....just a lack of design and planning.


The worst part about is I'm training under this guy and he tells my boss it takes 6 months to get a grasp of the network...I'm estimating it should only take 1 month at best.
HE doesn't listen to my ideas about domains and servers, which are pulled straight from MS Press books. Its like I'm working with a rogue idiot. Its that bad.


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seuss_ssues

sprkymrk wrote:

Lee H wrote:

My point is this. Rather than supporting an up to date network with latest technologies which would only develop maintenance skills, you have a massive oportunity that many IT guys may not have had. You will witness and probably take part in deploying a new network. In a later job you may see the same issues and you will have had 1st hand knowledge of how it is resolved.

There is more good points to your job than bad.

And this guy you work with who you say knows nothing. You may be right but it will take time before people listen to you before him.

Lee H

+1.

I agree. I wish i were hired on at my current position about a year before i was. I missed out on switching everything from leased lines to vpn and the majority of the infrastructures restructuring. I have a firm grasp of our network and why it is the way that it is, however i do not grasp it aswell as my coworker that basically designed it all.