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Microsoft Exchange...
Posted by ajt on Fri 29 Sep 2006 at 10:46
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Recently out Exchange server at work was "upgraded". This entailed replacing one over large Wintel PC, with an even larger one. The poor desktop people then had to log into each person's PC and manually rebuild the Outlook profile. As a result we had several days of continuous email outage, and I have to use two computers now, as my normal PC can't send email, so I'm temporarily using a second PC to run Outlook until Microsoft can fix it...

For a multi-billion dollar corporation I find it sad and pathetic that our email is now so unreliable since the upgrade, that third parties are now printing emails off and posting them via Royal Mail or fax to ensure that they arrive...

 

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Posted by Anonymous (62.189.xx.xx) on Fri 29 Sep 2006 at 11:09
Someone needs to tell them to, "Keep It Simple, Stupid!"

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Posted by eric (82.255.xx.xx) on Fri 29 Sep 2006 at 18:27
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In theory, the outlook profile shouldn't need to be rebuild: you can change the server version, its name, etc. and outlook migrate itself the profile...
in theory... but in fact, most of the profiles needs to be rebuild or office to be upgraded!

Working in a windows environment, win2000/2003 server and win2000/xp pro are not really cool, not easily administrable, etc. but exchange is worst! it's really f***in' bad, instable, loud, and really expensive (licences, hardware, storage, antivirus, antispam, etc.).
When you know that you can have the same (and better) for nearly nothing... you are sometimes frustrated :(

eric:
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Posted by ajt (84.12.xx.xx) on Fri 29 Sep 2006 at 19:41
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Thankfull I work mostly on SAP on Linux/AIX boxen, so I don't have to deal with the Windows systems on a day to day basis - except that I'm forced to use a Windows desktop client.

I hate Outlook as a client, but since the email migration I now hate the Exchange server too, as we have been losing email and it's now getting beyond a joke.

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

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Posted by eric (82.248.xx.xx) on Sat 30 Sep 2006 at 13:05
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except that I'm forced to use a Windows desktop client.
at least, i have a debian/xen box. i manage our win servers with rdesktop/ts, our clients with vnc, and for outlook... hum, don't need it and don't want to use it. ok for pop/imap boxes, the only problem is for public folders: i use mozilla/firefox but it's not really practical, but fortunately we don't use it very much, just a little for calendars, and i push other web-oriented technos for KM (forums, wikis...)
I think i couldn't use a Windows desktop, and I hope i will _never_ need to :)

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Posted by lykwydchykyn (66.236.xx.xx) on Fri 6 Oct 2006 at 17:59
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Sometimes I'm thankful I work at a Novell shop. They may all be Suse-crazy, but at least I can alien the Groupwise rpm into my system.

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