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I have a Mazda 5 that I love.\u00a0 Yesterday I decided that I would change the cabin air filter, after all how hard could it be?\u00a0 I looked the procedure up online then drove to the Mazda dealer to buy the filter then drove back home.\u00a0 In my driveway I gathered my tools then started to take the various bits of interior trim off so that I could get at the filter housing.\u00a0 To make a long story short it was agony<\/em>!\u00a0 The location was hard to reach and clearly not designed for people of my build and I definitely needed much smaller fingers to get into one or two of the screws holding the housing in place.\u00a0 I did eventually get the housing disconnected and I got the filters swapped but not before I managed to hurt myself trying to contort into a position where I could gain proper access to everything.\u00a0 The whole process probably took me 4 or 5 times as long as a Mazda technician would have taken.<\/p>\n

The point I’m trying to make is that while I did, eventually, get the job done it took much longer than it should have and I hurt myself in the process.\u00a0 Overall, I probably didn’t save any money by doing the job myself considering how long it took.\u00a0 And I have the wrenched elbow and sore shoulder to consider, as well.\u00a0 I probably should have just left the job to the pro’s.<\/p>\n

And that is true of many things in IT, certainly it’s what I see in the SMB world where budgets are “tight”; everyone tries to do things themselves that they really should leave in the hands of the pro’s.\u00a0 Two weeks ago I had a very sharp reminder of this when I was called into a customer that uses us infrequently.\u00a0 Their internal network was all wonky; DNS was not working properly and they had many tales of woe about the network.\u00a0 I did some digging and was horrified to find an incredibly broken Active Directory that had been “butchered” by someone that clearly didn’t have a clue about what they were doing.\u00a0\u00a0 A domain controller had been “deleted” — not demoted, just deleted — and there was a whole shopping list of other problems that also stemmed from the same root cause.\u00a0 Worse, when we went digging about in their backups we discovered that they were backing up their Exchange but nothing else as a former network admin had confused “mirrored drives” with backup!\u00a0\u00a0 Aaarggh!<\/p>\n

I spent 5 hours or so cleaning up and repairing the AD, I even had to go so far\u00a0 as to replace the default GPO’s as their SYSVOL was an unholy mess.\u00a0 I got them working and, not surprisingly, they tell us that things are better on the network, now, than they have been in years!\u00a0 Thankfully, they had not made any real modifications to the GPO’s or they would have been in some trouble after I did the GPO rescue thing.<\/p>\n

All of this points to having the pro’s handle the things that you really don’t understand.\u00a0 There is no savings at all to doing something yourself if you honestly don’t have the knowledge or tools to accomplish the task correctly and in a timely manner.\u00a0 I should have gone to the Mazda dealer and had them do the filter and my customer should have come to us long ago to handle the messed up network.\u00a0 There is no shame in admitting that a task is beyond you and asking for help, especially so when we are talking about IT and Cloud services.\u00a0 Things have gotten incredibly complicated and there is no substitute for having knowledge and experience in your court.<\/p>\n

So the moral of this little story is to recognize when you are in over your head (or painfully contorted into an uncomfortable position) and hand your project over to the pro’s.\u00a0 Be it the nuts and bolts of your IT internal “plumbing” or the configuration of a Site Collection in SharePoint on Office 365; the pro’s are there to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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