^^^^ This ^^^^
Not to bash this company, I am still employed here, but they had made some really really bad business decisions over the course of 10 years.
- MPLS Network on Earthlink (Like WTF!?!) Earthlink was a dial up company from the 90s and is now just a reseller, this means its impossible to get a change order done or any kind of change. A site goes down and not only will they miss the 4 hour SLA but they will miss it by DAYS...
- All the hardware is between 7 and 12 years old. I shit you not, they pay for a rack space at a data center and to top this all off... this hardware was refurbished to start off with.
- The Server pre-crash hadn't had updates run between 3-6 years. Yup, thats windows update... it just was disabled and no one ever bothered to go back and patch ANYTHING after standing up a server.
- The company paid independant programs to develop software to interface with an archaic ERP Software about 5 years ago. These developers have moved on in their careers and now all do something different. So after installing the new environment, I have to figure out how to make these custom programs working again. (One was written in Silverlight)
As far as what I have done...
- 2nd week (Sunsetted the Exchange Server pushed an O365 migration, mainly because the exchange server only had 10 GB of free space and was growing between 1-2 GB a day).
- 6th week (SAN died... lost the farm and the backups only had company data. Apparently the folks before me thought why bother doing image backups, replication, or export any VHDs)
- 3 days Post Crash - I had all the business critical applications back up, a new citrix farm built
- 10 days Post Crash - I had all applications functional and 30 servers built out (including all updates for OS and applications ran)
I literally could sit here for hours writing about all the WTF moments I've had since starting roughly 60 days ago. That all said, I am better for all this and if I can make this turd float, I can do just about anything. LOL.