Dumb Network Supervisor!!

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Mark Scott

My task today was to install 60 new Dell PCs to replace 60 1997 vintage
P166s. I looked in AD and zapped all the old machine accounts thinking
that they were the machines in the area I was working....I wish I had double
checked now.....

I sat down to create a RIS image (another long story....). and installed the
machines in the first room OK from it. I then went to the second room and
all machines were going great. However my joy was short lived when one
machine would not go onto the domain for love or money. I reset it and got
it to pull down the image again....still no cigar.

At this point it was 6pm and I was getting annoyed so I chewed out the poor
Dell operator at the end of the phone asking for a replacement PC. During
the call I ripped out the network cable and the PC started working or so I
thought....no domain.....computer locked out.....hmmmmm.....shit!!!!

SO I then started pinging all the machines in that room....ping TC2-22
reply...reply...reply....reply.....!!! strange...I have the cable in my hand
here..... then it suddenly dawned on me, the old TC2-22 was still on and
happily sending packets but where the hell was it? I have not idea so im
gonna have to walk the entire site until I find it and club it to death with
a mallet.....oh and I cannot remote to it because zapping the account hosed
the trust!

BEWARE - ping the old machines before you scrub their accounts from AD,
otherwise it will bite you in the ass later on!

Cheers

Mark (thoroughly annoyed and not looking forward to tomorrow!)
 
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Mark Scott said:
My task today was to install 60 new Dell PCs to replace
60 1997 vintage P166s. I looked in AD and zapped all
the old machine accounts thinking that they were the
machines in the area I was working....I wish I had double
checked now.....

I sat down to create a RIS image (another long
story....). and installed the machines in the first room
OK from it. I then went to the second room and all
machines were going great. However my joy was short
lived when one machine would not go onto the domain for
love or money. I reset it and got it to pull down the
image again....still no cigar.

At this point it was 6pm and I was getting annoyed so I
chewed out the poor Dell operator at the end of the phone
asking for a replacement PC. During the call I ripped
out the network cable and the PC started working or so I
thought....no domain.....computer locked
out.....hmmmmm.....shit!!!!

SO I then started pinging all the machines in that
room....ping TC2-22
reply...reply...reply....reply.....!!! strange...I have
the cable in my hand here..... then it suddenly dawned
on me, the old TC2-22 was still on and happily sending
packets but where the hell was it? I have not idea so
im gonna have to walk the entire site until I find it and
club it to death with a mallet.....oh and I cannot remote
to it because zapping the account hosed the trust!

BEWARE - ping the old machines before you scrub their
accounts from AD, otherwise it will bite you in the ass
later on!

Cheers

Mark (thoroughly annoyed and not looking forward to
tomorrow!)
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Another tip, don't delete the computer accounts from AD unless the account
is corrupted, doing this means you'll have to rejoin the machine to the
domain.
If you are going to replace the machine, disjoin it from the domain from the
machine and rejoin the new machine to the domain.
 
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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. said:
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Another tip, don't delete the computer accounts from AD unless the
account is corrupted, doing this means you'll have to rejoin the
machine to the domain.
If you are going to replace the machine, disjoin it from the domain
from the machine and rejoin the new machine to the domain.

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Best regards,
Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
Hope This Helps
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Or maybe try resetting the account?

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Ace

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That is just it, he deleted the computer account.

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Best regards,
Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
Hope This Helps
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Ouch, didn't see that part!

Ace
 
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