It seems like after every little change to the system I am forced to go chasing down a new horde of EventViewer warnings and errors. Sometimes they just appear if I let the system sit there idle long enough.
What gives? I am setting up immaculate systems, following the directions mostly to the letter, typically chosing the default options, and pretty much just installing Microsoft products on top of other Microsoft products...and yet...warnings and errors abound.
Is this the result of running the machines in VMware? Does Windows somehow behave badly within a virtual environment?
Or does Microsoft really suck this badly? I am at a loss for words for the amount of frustration, backtracking, and research necessary to get even simple things to work correctly. I mean...just running DCPROMO to create a new tree in a new forest, installing DNS, installing Exchange, installing IIS, .NET Framework 1.1, MSI 3.0, Terminal Services...all standard part of Windows...and after each I was presented with new warnings and errors to track down.
And...there is NO reliable documentation. Event I am greatful for...tends to have numerous alternative explanations and orthogonal solutions for the SAME EXACT ERROR. And yet...that seems to be an order of magnitude beyond the often USELESS information that Microsoft publishes.
Has it always been this bad? This is my first major foray into Server setup, though I've been using Windows for years and am typically quite comfortable performing advanced actions like security configurations ranging through the registry, mmc, and the like.
But since I've been getting more to the IT side of things...probably setting up twenty or so servers over the last two months...it just seems like everything is inherently fragile. I have become convinced that a huge part of the IT sphere is driven by the fact that MS products are so buggy and frail that companies need people who are versed in bugs and workarounds necessary to make things work in a rather house-of-cards kinda way.
Thoughts on all this?
What gives? I am setting up immaculate systems, following the directions mostly to the letter, typically chosing the default options, and pretty much just installing Microsoft products on top of other Microsoft products...and yet...warnings and errors abound.
Is this the result of running the machines in VMware? Does Windows somehow behave badly within a virtual environment?
Or does Microsoft really suck this badly? I am at a loss for words for the amount of frustration, backtracking, and research necessary to get even simple things to work correctly. I mean...just running DCPROMO to create a new tree in a new forest, installing DNS, installing Exchange, installing IIS, .NET Framework 1.1, MSI 3.0, Terminal Services...all standard part of Windows...and after each I was presented with new warnings and errors to track down.
And...there is NO reliable documentation. Event I am greatful for...tends to have numerous alternative explanations and orthogonal solutions for the SAME EXACT ERROR. And yet...that seems to be an order of magnitude beyond the often USELESS information that Microsoft publishes.
Has it always been this bad? This is my first major foray into Server setup, though I've been using Windows for years and am typically quite comfortable performing advanced actions like security configurations ranging through the registry, mmc, and the like.
But since I've been getting more to the IT side of things...probably setting up twenty or so servers over the last two months...it just seems like everything is inherently fragile. I have become convinced that a huge part of the IT sphere is driven by the fact that MS products are so buggy and frail that companies need people who are versed in bugs and workarounds necessary to make things work in a rather house-of-cards kinda way.
Thoughts on all this?
