After I finished University, I had found myself a job at a large corporation as a job for desktop support and server administration for a whole department, about 300 people, 6 remote sites in two major cities, about 8 servers. We were two guys in one city, and two others in the other one, and helped each other when massive work had to be done. We had just finished doing a cutover from OS/2 to Windows 95 desktops and laptops along with NT 3.51 servers (that was in 96). Converting all the stations one-by-one, by hand, it didn't take long to learn quicker ways to install software, in order to save time. The task was huge, but when it was done, we were proud of ourselves, we had done a great job, and no major problems happened during the conversion. But the truth was bitter: as soon did we finish, as soon we had to do it again - at least partially. If we wanted our site to be up to date in virus protection, we had to go on each station - again and again every month - to update the virus scanning software.
After three months of this treatment, I could suffer this no more - nothing is more boring than installing the same software again and again, repeatedly, especially on weekends. I went to my boss and said, "let me take care of this." This is the final result.
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