If you thought your Exchange deployment ever made your life miserable, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. If you’re the Exchange admin of a small business deployment, you’re likely to strut around your office and just tell people to get over it.
If you’re an admin of a large enterprise, March is your Month of Suffering. Prepare to sob like a baby.
Congress enacted this little thing called Daylight Saving Time, right? Well, then they decided to make it happen three weeks sooner in the year 2007. They passed this law in 2005.
Aquatix was asking on a post or two ago about, “How is deprecating webdav a good thing?”
The problem with webdav is that while webdav is meant to be a standard, I’ve rarely met a client that handled it properly. I would also point out that some of these problems were not implementations with the client, but implementations with the server side and the relation to the client.
The new model in Exchange 2007 is to deprecate webdav support in favor of web services (via SOAL/XML, etc.). This is a boon for clients because it uses a standardized model to feed data and the response is just XML. How badly can a client screw that up? That means the server-side is no longer an equation in poor Exchange support.
(info: this post was started several days ago)
There’s so much more that can be said about Microsoft and the mistakes they are continuing to make. In my experience, product quality is going down… regression bugs are coming back into some products (Exchange 2003 and clustering!)… many enterprise products are a mishmash of spaghetti code… argh, it’s a tough time to be an enterprise admin with Microsoft products.
There’s been a renaissance of Linux here in my house, led by the Mac issue and Not Having Money. I intend to replace all of the workstations with Macs, but in the meantime, I’ve dual-booted my system with Ubuntu Edgy and Windows. Now here’s the kicker: I’ve not booted into Windows in about three weeks, maybe longer. Taitai’s system is still on Windows because Linux is pretty rough around the edges, but she will be the first recipient of a new Mac when the first one is actually purchased.
