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Once upon a time, I used to actually do things, instead of just email.  Back then, in the old days, we had something we used to call Windows NT.  I went to a few NT training classes in my day, as it was universally known then that Windows NT was an elegant operating system, from a more civilized time.  However, these classes were unanimously, mind-wrenchingly boring, taking subjective eons to get through 10 minutes worth of content.  So I wrote some poems to pass the time.  I found them whilst purging the basement of crap, and I present them here to you now, just to demonstrate that once upon a time, a sysadmin was judged not on the breadth of his knowledge, but on the consistency of his meter.  Suffice it to say, I was not a very good sysadmin, and it's for the best that I was promoted to email processing, as you'll see from the following, which represent the entirety of my notes from a weeklong class, peppered with acronyms so deprecated that they are almost charming in their quaintitude.  Also, if you're MOT, you might notice a little "Ma nishtanah" influence here.  Enjoy.

What could it be,
running service pack 3,
when your RAS service is interrupted?
If it's your PDC
running PPTP,
then your SAM database is corrupted. 

Is it a pain
if another domain
wants permissions for some unknown yokel?
It's not, but you must
establish a trust
and a new global group in a local.

How can I set
up the user to get
all their mapped drives at ev'ry location?
Use a login.bat
(you must propagate that)
but don't use the built-in replication.

What would it do
if a user or two
had the right to log on as a service?
Well, I don't think it could
do much harm or much good,
but it sure makes your sysadmin nervous.

I can't understand,
when there's that little hand
what permissions those boxes I clicked give!
Well, it's true (for a while)
'twixt a share and a file
that it picks the one that's most restrictive.