Unruly Behavior

Well, looks like Gustav is going to hang out with the Coon Asses and leave us alone. Thousands from Louisiana came here, even after being cautioned to head north instead. I saw on the news that folks from New Orleans did the same thing, going to Baton Rouge. Joke is on them, it looks like Baton Rouge will be harder hit than New Orleans. People so stupid that they evacuate from one huricane prone area to another, just 100 miles away make me laugh. Maybe Natural Selection will take over and thin them out a bit.

In other news, preparations for Gustav horked my Exchange Migration, I got all but 21 of the 350 boxes moved successfully last night. I'm about to go to the office and work on recovery of the other 21 boxes. Should be a funy, entertaining day.

Labels: exchange, hurricane

Labels: exchange, hurricane

,Ok, I've been so busy the last two weeks that I haven't posted a thing.

I only worked 58 hours last week, and that kept me from most of my internet fun. I did go to San Antonio and setup a new bank branch and completely overhaul anothr brach. Today I'm at the office, I'm moving from one cube to another, I seem to get moved every month. It will be nice when we get our new office/data center built out this summer. Right now we are getting to be like sardines in this office.

I'm also working on my Exchange migration today. Got my tape drive library moved here and installed it in the Exchange server. For some reason Backup Exec is much happier if it runs on your Exchange server. So that is where it will be running, I'm even putting in version 11d, which looks like it kicks ass on the Exchagne backup portion.

Had a birthday a week ago Friday. Made it to 39. More folks loosing money in the Dren Death Pool. Guess all the ones that bet on didn't make it to 40 are starting to really sweat now. Work had a Snickers ice cream cake for me the week after my birthday. MMMM.... Diabetic delight!

Kids are getting bigger, our oldest is really starting to play and have fun with his brohter and sister. The twins are getting more and more animated and the little boy is just so very happy all the time. People keep commenting that they have never seen such a happy baby. And my daughter is just the sweetest thing.

The wife's last day on the job was Wednesday, she is now a stay at home mommy. She seems to like the change.

I think I have some cool pics on the camera to post soon, just have to get around to downloading them.

I might also be going to Atlanta this week, and on a private plane, so I can get some good arial photos without a stewardess yelling at me, that would be cool.

Labels: birthday, exchange, family, georgia on my mind, microsoft

With twins that are nearly three months old, to say that things around here have gotten crazy would be about as much of an understatement as I could possibly make.

On Wednesday night I put a warm beer in the freezer, with the intention of drinking it after the only cold one left in the fridge. Got up Thursday morning, and the wife is in the kitchen, says, "You forgot a beer in the freezer last night."

So here is my frozen beer, a little colder than even I like.

I haven't been posting as much as I would like, I've been busy both at work and outside of work. Doing as many projects at work that would give me good experience with Microsoft Exchange and Blackberrys. Wanted to pad the resume a little.

Which leads to my big announcement of the day, I'm changing jobs. I'm going into banking! It seems that one of my old banks got bought by Wells Fargo, the owner in turn started a new bank, buying four smaller banks. Two of the banks he bought were my old banks. As a result, when they started looking for someone to come in and work full time on their IT systems, my name came up for the job.

It is really great to have people come to me and say, "We're so happy with your work from the past, we want you full time now for our business." At the same time, I'm a bit intimidated by the task at hand. They have been merging banks, domains and other things for weeks, and there is bound to be a lot of cleanup, fixing and redoing things to get everything ship-shape and running smoothly.

I'm really excited about the challenge. I'm sure I'll be posting more when things settle down.

Labels: beer, blackberry, exchange, family, work

Ok, I'm working on a major migration today. Never any fun. There are always snage. I've run into an e-mail archive that is too big to import, so I found the article listed below and called Microsoft as recommended to get thier downloadable tool to fix my problem.

Of course, I am connected to a call center in India. I'm now on hold for my fourth tech in 40 minutes, to download this free tool that they won't just let me download on my own. Great, I can't just have this, and you don't hire people smart enough to route me to the right department to download the tool now in three tries.

The current tech asked me, "Can I place you on hold to transfer you to the right department?"

My response? "Sure, place me on hold, do you think the fourth try is any more likely to get me to the right department?"

At least the customer i getting a laugh out of the conversation.

Tank you! Com ugin!

"Outlook.pst can not be accessed - 0x80040116" error message when you start Outlook 2000 or open a personal folder file

Labels: bad support, exchange, microsoft