If anyone would like to borrow my copy of Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel...

Co-workers and managers have company goals, steal-from-the-company goals, career goals, nepotism goals, not-do-any-work-after-lunch goals. Their pursuit of their goals may interfere with yours of yours. There's a natural alliance between members of the IT department against the rest of the company, which wants to take your hardware budget and buy nicer furniture with it. Which is wrong in business terms. Probably. We assume you don't just want the server to run that cool 3D screensaver without halting SQL Server to do it.

Does this mean you can lie to your IT colleagues for the greater good? Well, it's war, and the first casualty of war is...