So, they’ve decided that over the next three weeks the plant will be upgrading all Windows 2000 PCs to Windows XP SP2. Yeah, sounds like a good idea.

My building was one of the first ones to get hit with the “migration”. Little did they tell us, we’d be installing Windows XP across the network using an automated install.

Well, I started my upgrade yesterday at about 12:30 PM, and by the time I left work 3 hours later it was still in the process of backing up the files. So I left it run as I went home for the day.

Came in this morning, and the backup had finished as well as the “Stage 1″ part of the XP upgrade. It was not time to reboot and finish frakking up the system. So, about three hours pass and it’s finally finished. Not.

Next we get to spend 30 minutes installing additional updates, which wouldn’t be that bad, however we had to first troubleshoot the NIC. Apparently the 3Com 3CR990 NICs have an issue with Windows XP, that our IT support staff was aware of but declined to inform anyone.

Problem fixed, and since I now know about the issue, I’m called on by others in the department to “fix everything”. Even though, I have absolutely nothing to do with the XP upgrade. I’ve got to get out of that area…