Server admin pilot fish at a very big company gets an evening message from a PC services manager: What’s going on with the Windows licensing server?

“He wanted to know what changed, who did it, was change management followed, upper management wants answers immediately, and so on,” says fish. “It was essentially a ‘who do we crucify?’ request.

“Since I was unaware of any issue with the licensing server and it was after hours, I decided to check into it first thing in the morning.”

Next morning fish gets on the licensing server and confirms that everything is running fine — clients are getting activated successfully. He’s just started a a reply to the PC services manager (“What issue are you experiencing? What’s the ticket number? How can I help?”) when he gets a text from a PC tech: What’s wrong with the licensing server?

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