The last three days have been filled with issues that underscore the need for proper disaster recovery measures in all things. One of our clients had a complete meltdown of their domain controller. We had installed some ScanRouter software while working on getting their Ricoh scanner to scan to a network drive. The software installation failed, the vendor requested a complete uninstall and reinstall. After the reinstall the server required a reboot. As is the normal procedure I was going to wait for friday afternoon to reboot so that if something went wrong we would have the full weekend to repair it.

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