You know, stuff that could of possibly ended getting you in trouble, or fired etc.
My worse one was recently and I'm still going through hell because of it. I work in IT in an environment that has lot of weird setups and tons of crappy apps that are binded to the user account and profile.
I was deleting users that were getting layed off and my first mistake was deleting them instead of just disabling them.
I am making up fictional names here. One user was called George Smith so I do a search for jsmith and delete that account. It was the last one. I would double click the account to check the first name to ensure it was in fact the correct user, except for that one. So I move on to go rename the home directories to .del (good thing I did that) then I get to gsmith and I get an error that it's in use when I go to rename it. I figure that's odd, then I realized, that was Gary Smith's directory! Then I realized I had deleted his account instead of George which was gesmith.
Yeah... anyone ever done something stupid like this?
By coincidence I had done a CSVDE the day before so I tried to reimport that user but no go, the command just failed. So I recreated the user manually and then added to all the groups that were in the dump file for that user. I restore the exchange mailbox and readd the permissions on the home folder as it was a sid now.
That part was easy. I call up the user saying I noticed their account got corrupted during maintenance and that I am looking at it and I get the user to log out and back in to test everything.
Every day, there's a new problem that surfaces. Some weird app or setup wont work, because it's embeded by sid or something and does not like the new account. The new account also means a new profile on all the citrix servers, so everything does not work... what a mess. Obligatory: FML
My worse one was recently and I'm still going through hell because of it. I work in IT in an environment that has lot of weird setups and tons of crappy apps that are binded to the user account and profile.
I was deleting users that were getting layed off and my first mistake was deleting them instead of just disabling them.
I am making up fictional names here. One user was called George Smith so I do a search for jsmith and delete that account. It was the last one. I would double click the account to check the first name to ensure it was in fact the correct user, except for that one. So I move on to go rename the home directories to .del (good thing I did that) then I get to gsmith and I get an error that it's in use when I go to rename it. I figure that's odd, then I realized, that was Gary Smith's directory! Then I realized I had deleted his account instead of George which was gesmith.
Yeah... anyone ever done something stupid like this?
By coincidence I had done a CSVDE the day before so I tried to reimport that user but no go, the command just failed. So I recreated the user manually and then added to all the groups that were in the dump file for that user. I restore the exchange mailbox and readd the permissions on the home folder as it was a sid now.
That part was easy. I call up the user saying I noticed their account got corrupted during maintenance and that I am looking at it and I get the user to log out and back in to test everything.
Every day, there's a new problem that surfaces. Some weird app or setup wont work, because it's embeded by sid or something and does not like the new account. The new account also means a new profile on all the citrix servers, so everything does not work... what a mess. Obligatory: FML