The school district I work for is a district in transition. Our infrastructure in the past was based on Windows NT domains. This infrastructure has served us well over the last five years, but we are now in the process of retiring Windows NT and the servers that run it. That is where the frustration is for me.

The main file server I run in my building is a Windows NT 4 box. For anyone who has ever run a Windows NT server, you know that you just about have to plan to take it down once a year and reload Windows NT. If you don’t do that, it will force you into it some time in the future when something breaks. I didn’t have time this past summer to reload all of the software on that server. Now I’m paying the price.

In the last week, I’ve had the server get so mixed up that I actually had to resort to physically turning it off because one process had consumed so much of the system that it wouldn’t respond. This is one of many problems I’ve had with it. The sad reality is that at the end of the school year, that server will be retired. If I can only limp it along until then…..

Pete