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March 29, 2005 at 07:19 AM
caestelle

IT blooper…

by caestelle . Updated 21 years, 3 months ago

We have some remote users that my boss wants me to check daily to see if they logging onto our domain. So, I have a script that runs everyday and puts the last logon time of all of our remote users into a log file. Well, today my boss was particularly interested in one user so I decided to check just that one rather than sifting through the log file with him looking over my shoulder.

So, I was planning on running the following command: net user username /domain

Instead I typed: net send username /domain

Which proceeded to send a message to every computer on our network simply containing that username.
Needless to say, that generated alot of calls from users wanting to know what the message was and what to do with it.

Oh well…I guess you just have to laugh.

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