on that note, I'm fucking awesome. Details soon.

mk. i woke up and you weren't home yet! I thought for sure you would be! got me all worried!

What's going on?

?????????

That's what I usually say when I'm about to...

PEE

promoted my server to a domain controller and restored the Autodesk Vault data management server database, turned dhcp server back on, and

a bunch of other nerderies - without losing any data.

it was a pretty big undertaking. sooo frustrating.

but now i can do things like adding new users to all of the machines in less than 1 minute instead of going from machine to machine

Congrats! That all sounded like alien language to me.

MOTHER EFFING EFFER. that's what happened. i fucked up something and had to restore from a backup - only the backup wasnt cooperating so i

SO I REBOOTED THREE TIMES.

nah, i had to restore from an old image - then move the current image to another drive and then restore again and then things were fixed.

but moving around 300 gig images takes a while