Teach your users this mantra "PUT ALL FILES ON W:" Put it in your email sig, your memos and on your voicemail! Use it in casual conversation - I'm not kidding, REPETITION!)
This was done at the last place I was at, and then, because the consultants grossly underestimated our storage needs once everybody started saving their files to the network, the sysadmin would run around bitching about how people better back the server data up TO THEIR OWN HARD DRIVES, because come Friday, she was going to delete everyone's data out of their network folders. A couple of us recognized the insanity of the situation and appealed to the CEO to buy more hard disk space on the server. Frigging idiots.
I trade obsolete and hard-to-find parts for a living, and while 20-year-old parts are rarely requested, it's not uncommon for manufacturing runs to continue for years past the time when a part is obsoleted. I've had to find about 50,000+ pieces of an older ('95-'96 era) Cirrus Logic video chip because the newer replacements wouldn't work, and the customer didn't want to redesign the board.
By the way, I just inventoried a lot of excess parts, and I found several hundred 1978 Rockwell chips. Maybe NASA will want some...
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This was done at the last place I was at, and then, because the consultants grossly underestimated our storage needs once everybody started saving their files to the network, the sysadmin would run around bitching about how people better back the server data up TO THEIR OWN HARD DRIVES, because come Friday, she was going to delete everyone's data out of their network folders. A couple of us recognized the insanity of the situation and appealed to the CEO to buy more hard disk space on the server. Frigging idiots.
I trade obsolete and hard-to-find parts for a living, and while 20-year-old parts are rarely requested, it's not uncommon for manufacturing runs to continue for years past the time when a part is obsoleted. I've had to find about 50,000+ pieces of an older ('95-'96 era) Cirrus Logic video chip because the newer replacements wouldn't work, and the customer didn't want to redesign the board. By the way, I just inventoried a lot of excess parts, and I found several hundred 1978 Rockwell chips. Maybe NASA will want some...