Reply to post: Re: Repetitive work on multiple servers

Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Repetitive work on multiple servers

"All users, potentially some 4,500 of them suddenly lost their file shares, email, printing, internet access – the works. My only saving grace was it was late afternoon on a Friday so there was not that many users actually affected."

We have a policy of warning users when work is happening. They're a lot more forgiving if they've been given a heads-up

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