Wow, what a fast month again. Our team saw some ups and downs within our environment. A lot of Exchange servers being put and pulled out of the environment for VM issues, physical issues and OS issues. I think we installed Exchange on probably 10 boxes and rotated out of production and back in just as many. We are currently in finished with the migration Exchange users but are catching our breath and doing some clean up on the backend before we really roll up our sleeves and begin to move the then some 22,000 VUMC mailboxes. In preparation of this move for VUMC, we had an issue when attempting to allow ITS-HCWNEM40 to be setup for 2003 public folders. Guy had to work with Microsoft one weekend day and in a nutshell, we are in a holding pattern to determine our best line of action to if any, add public folders within the 2007 environment.
A plethora of Magic and Service tickets still abound our queue as it seems when we resolve 2, 3 more come in. They can be issues small in nature or great in size with visibility. We as a team do our best to complete them in a efficient and timely manner. One in particular which comes to mind is Kathryn Foote, Matt Halls assistant would accept a meeting request on his behalf then after a few minutes it would go tentative. We found a tracking option to uncheck on Matt’s client which corrected this but believe its caused by a MS patch that came out in June. I’m going to contact MS and determine if this is the correct behavior when both clients have this option checked. Hmm, I don’t think so but I’ll give MS the benefit of the doubt. sigh…….
So as August comes to an end, I have settled in much more than just 30 days ago. We even had a after work bowling get together with a few guys which was fun. Antwan is quite the bowler though. I’ll have to sharpen my skills before I bowl against him again.
See you next month :-]
P.S. Can’t wait for the NFL season to start in just a couple of weeks.