This is going to ramble incoherently. I’ve been at work for a bit more than 24 hours, so please bear with.

To sum up, I’ll tell you exactly what I just told everyone else:

If you can read this…

… congratulations on digging into your Start Menu and finding your Groupwise icon after fighting with the very-confused Novell login process.

Here’s the good news: The new server is alive and kicking, all data is intact, and the printers are apparently still happy on our network. And did you notice how much more quickly the login process goes without the anti-virus checker and the ZENworks launcher, not to mention that tedious wait to map the P: drive on the Snap server?

Here’s the bad news: ZENworks is gone. (You won’t feel the pain of it, but my workload may very well just have doubled, if not tripled.) I have only a few suspicions as to why it broke, but there’s nothing I can do about it now, and it was totally inevitable. Without ZENworks, we get no handy-dandy icons for things like Groupwise, Tapscan, Powerlink, CoolEdit 2000. So, someone (guess who?) will need to go from computer to computer to computer to computer manually placing icons for all of those programs.

Here’s the really bad news: If you want to print something, you’ll have to wait until someone (guess who?) can go from computer to computer to computer to computer, removing and then adding again your printers. (The quick, layman’s explanation is that your computer is looking in the wrong place for the printers.)

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go home and sleep after my 24-hour shift, the climax of four straight double-digit-hours working days. I’ll be here bright and early Tuesday morning, hopefully before many of you even have the chance to read this. At least you’ll understand why your computer’s acting so very strangely…

(ps – The observant among you will notice that I am indeed not coming in for a couple of days this holiday weekend. It’s for my mental health and yours. Trust me on this: we all want for me to be rested and recuperated on Tuesday morning.)

Overall, a qualified success. The printer thing is resolvable, albeit with a ton of tedious work. I’m just glad I didn’t have to actually reconfigure all of the print servers. As for the loss of ZENworks, well, I’m really going to feel it the next time something major needs to be rolled out to most of the building.

Right now, I’m just praying that the only phone calls I take between now and Tuesday are from friends, not co-workers. I need a break. Starting last Tuesday morning I’ve clocked 59 hours up to this point. Folks, that’s gotta be enough for a while. I’ll catch up with you again after some downtime.