Re:I used to work in IT and.... (Score 1)

Either your Administrators are idiots, none of them have done any programming work, or no one on your team is talking to them. I'm willing to bet a mix of those with emphasis on the last one. My question is why do your Administrators have access to the dev servers in the first place? Those servers should be sandboxed in an internal network, and/or VMs, and you guys should be the only ones with access to them. I'm also more than a little horrified you're developing something with a version of Java that old. I admit if I found that on any of my network workstations I'd start asking some questions. That said, they should know that dev servers aren't their problem.