Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls of all ages, gather around whilst I spin a tale of festive freakery and technical terror…
Once upon a callout dreary, an intrepid network consultant bore witness to an event so shocking it would go on to haunt him for the rest of his days. Or at least until the end of the week.
On a network running Server 2003, someone new to the company had been using his predecessor’s domain login, upon which he’d set up Outlook to receive his mail. He had about a month of quite important email sitting in that inbox.
So, our intrepid network consultant comes along, and sets up a user account on the server for him. He logs on to his new account, and promptly puts all the appropriate details into Outlook so he can start receiving his mail immediately. Naturally, this account doesn’t have all his old email in it, so the network consultant, too busy doing other things to talk him through import/export procedures, tells him to log into his predecessor’s account, forward all his own mails to himself, and then receive them on the new account.
The truly shocking climax of the tale is this, my friends…when he came to log back into his predecessor’s account, Outlook was EMPTY! Nothing but a few test messages in the inbox…no sent items, no deleted items, no personal folders. Almost as if they never were…
So what could cause that to happen, I hear you ask? Well…
Uh…
Yeah…good question.
What *could* cause that to happen?
