MUST BE MONDAY!! (on Tuesday)

Last Thursday we were notified that a section of training would be hitting the web for coursework instead of using what we had locally and to be prepared Tuesday for the event. I didn't like the whole idea because it seems like just another nail in the coffin for our contract but, of course I (and we) have no say so about the situation so we have to deal with it. However, we did advise against it and of course, Monday morning comes along and we have several network related issues preventing the pilot program from working. First, they couldn't resolve the name of the proxy server to navigate because the proxy server was down, they got the proxy server back up and then we discovered that the internal DNS servers were not resolving. I called those that were in charge and they asked me to check on their stuff and lo and behold their stuff was indeed mucked up. Those in charge stated that our internal DNS servers weren't even in their list of authorised servers so that in and of itself is an issue as we can't pull records from the authoratative server. I logged into their DNS servers to try and stop and start the service but of course I could not... "You do not have sufficient rights to perform the operation..."
Just goes to show, try to take something good and make it better by removing a part of the machine and the next thing you know the cogs do not fit well. Bah...random thoughts...