And so back to work!

Although I’d been researching over the last couple of days, today was the first day back at the coalface after new year; and a long educational day it was!

Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 is always entertaining – the environments are so old, those responsible long gone, and the documentation modest or non-existent – and this is no exception.

So whilst the early work went well (despite a third party’s installation of Exchange 2003 onto the network 2 years ago without telling the client!), but later on mailbox moves did not play so well.  The test mailboxes moved fine, but the first real world one could no longer receive public email.    Doing the usual “check through the logs” thing brought up a host of errors on the old server.  But an hour or so’s work determined that these were actually nothing to do with it, but other errors latent on the old server anyway!

Well, at least the VB code I wrote to inject appointments into people’s calendars works a treat and the client can start to consider moving their application over!

I must do better :-)

In order to keep some control over things I keep a voice recorder in the car to record mileage and fuel purchases and so on.  Well I’ve left it a long time, this afternoon I spent an inordinate amount of time transcribing and getting data in that was meaningful 2 months ago before I went on a training course…  Hey ho.

And then there’s the pile of paperwork from the training course that I must sort out too – invoices, receipts and so on in £ and € so there’s even more hassle doing the exchange rate conversion as well.

Happy New Humbug!

And in Barcelona

My friend took this photo of the Casa Battlo - a great example of Gaudi's work!

Well, happy new year

It's new year's day and I have done some client work.  An interesting need to insert appointments across many calendars from a SQL server system.  Interestingly the first few searches I did came up with pretty much nothing.  Then I got on the track of WebDAV.

Now we have a neat toy that actually can track appointments made, and then modify them when needed!  Customer will be happy tomorrow, and I get to go and fix my spectacles, instead of work at home!

Why do such things (specs frame fracturing) happen at new year?  Well it was Maguire who said Murphy was an optimist - and I believe him.  I've not had sellotaped spectacle frames since the 70's!!  But it was the best job I could do.