Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data

Friday afternoon is not the time for snap decisions, but weekends are useful to cover your tracks.

The short version

• This week, meet a reader who asked to be Regomized as “Phil” and told us that many years ago he started a new job that, among other things, involved maintaining Microsoft’s magnificent Exchange server.
• “Exchange servers, especially onsite ones, were nothing new to me or to be worried about,” Phil told The Register .
• “This organization had a centralized exchange system for the entire company and on quick inspection I determined that it had run out of space.

What happened

Further inspection showed that the vast majority of this was due to a rather full log file directory.” “I hadn’t dealt with a system this large or for this many users,” he admitted. “The usual fix that I knew from previous experience was to ask users to delete emails from their Outlook clients.” That wasn’t going to work late on a Friday when people were racing to wind up their weeks.

Why it matters

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