Today was another one of those days that never end. Just when you think your getting ready to leave something comes up and you end up having to work another 4 hours. What I ended up working on was the new email server getting the software configured to send emails to both systems and to acknowledge the existance of both people on each side of the mail servers. If this sounds complicated, it is.
Hope to see you all bright and early tomorrow. Cause I know my cats will wake me up like they always do to feed them at 6am sharp.
I am off to get something to eat and to maybe catch Pirates of the Caribean. I'll let you know if I see it and what I think of it.
Today was a better day than the day of the Crash. LOL
We got the Web Email Server back online and got the connectors for the Exchange Server and Groupwise to see each other. Now I can get to the task of switching people over one by one to Outlook. It will still be a task to get 200 people over onto it but at least it has now begun.
It is now bedtime for me since I was up late yesterday. See you all tomorrow.
Last night was a long day. The Groupwise Email Server for the Web Crashed Hard. Basically I was on the phone with tech support till 10:45pm last night. The guy told me that he would get working on it again this morning at 8am. Now this would have been neat to see happen if we had Exchange up and running full steam. Then it wouldn't have been such an issue.
Right now I know I will have about a million calls from people telling me they need it up to do their jobs. There is nothing I can do at this time though since I will be relying on the tech support to get it reconfigured and working.
Today is also interesting in that we are supposed to start moving the Computer Department to another room. This will top off the fact that some other people are coming over to help with some migration software for Groupwise to Exchange 2000. Weeeeeeee!!!!!
This is a full week to say the least.
Bob
Jul 17, 2003 1:22 PM
I will see if I can make it a little bigger. The one main issue I have though is that if it is too big it will take longer to download, plus I don't want people reading my business stuff but I will see if I can make it a little bigger.
I don't know how to answer that becasue I can go both ways on it.
So far my experience with setting up an email server is more positive than negative. But this is just for the initial setup. I think during the lifetime of the server it will be more of a headache due to the maintenance and upkeep of user information, but once again that is to be seen.
One end I do see being a problem is that due to everyone needing to use Outlook as their email client, we will be open to a lot more Virus's do to the hackers targeting Outlook as the spreader. One good thing is that we have Virus protection on the Exchange Server as well as anti-virus on each computer in our network.
Only time will tell how this helps on my search for Administration Knowledge, but I am sure it will, since I have now conquered another Server issue. Next Stop...The Linux Zone!!!!
Well there is a Hurricane hitting just south of Houston. I can see on the radar that the rain front is just 50 miles outside of my town. Looks like we maybe in for some rain as soon as the jetstream gets a hold of this thing and blows it our way.
Bzorg
Jul 15, 2003 6:39 PM
uk, Bob, I watched in horro as today by 3:00 pm, EST the wind gusts had almost reached 6 MPH, i just now checked again...how are you holding up? i mean, your doppler radar cloaking device has hidden the bands of rain from my tendrils? are you safe, do you wish i extract you from peril, along with your barain?
Bob
Jul 15, 2003 8:13 PM
LOL
We held up pretty good. The winds were pretty strong but overall it wasn't too bad.
I think I need to cut some of the trees around the weather station. It makes it seem as if there isn't any wind here when sometimes it gets pretty strong.
Yesterdays Flight home was interesting to say the least. I was ready for the takeoff and so were all the other passengers. We started out down the runways. FULL SPEED...... Then it happened. PUT THE BRAKES ON!!!....... Yep halfway down the runway right before the nose was about to lift off, the pilot slammed on the brakes. We all looked at each other wondering what the heck just happened.
**This is the Pilot. We had some strange readings on one of our gauges so we decided to abort the takeoff** Hmmm... Maybe they forgot to go to the bathroom and wanted to make one last pitstop. LOL But really, it wasn't too scary at least from my point of view. I ended up getting to other airport 1 hour late from the takeoff to my final destination. Bummer... Had to sleep in a Motel6 and had Tom Bodet give me a wakeup call at 6am.
Its been a long day but I am glad to be back at work and alive.
I'll see about putting up some more links tomorrow if I'm not to busy.
Talk to you all later.