By Steven McNutt, on August 18th, 2010
Thanks Apple, this clears up a lot…
I should mention as well that it’s not very pleasing to have to put iTunes on a computer to support a user’s device, couldn’t Apple at least brew up a smaller sync app? Though to be fair Blackberry’s sync app isn’t much better; Microsoft get’s the ‘best sync app’ prize in my opinion.
(Update: I forgot to mention that our fix for ‘could not sync calendars because the sync server failed to sync the iPod/iPhone’ was to uninstall and reinstall iTunes, though I was sure to delete ‘Apple’ registry keys and file folders in between).
By Steven McNutt, on August 5th, 2010
I recently attended an event at Progressive Field as a guest of Sirius Computer Solutions to watch a Cleveland Indians game. I’m thankful to Sirius for inviting me along, even if some of the speakers that they brought in left something to be desired, however there was something else at the game that was beyond their control that I didn’t care for: the food.
The food looks great, but after one bite I was reminded of a game I attended late last year at Progressive Field where I ate a good deal, but after the fact realized that in my speed of eating I had missed the fact that I didn’t really care for what I had eaten. Part of where this stems from is my part time hobby of cooking. That’s not much of a hobby in my mind, but I’ve met enough people who don’t cook much or at all to know that my limited cooking knowledge can bring to light things that I would probably gloss over if I lacked the little bit of knowledge that I have. I’ll start with the rubens that they served at the game since it’s a great example of what they do wrong there:
It might not look it, but the presentation on this was actually very nice. The corned beef was ‘real’ meat and not ‘flaked and formed’, the bread was a nice marbled rye and the portions were quite (and some would say ‘too’) generous. However, the whole experiment suffered from flaws that makes one think that food served at Progressive Field begins with good ingredients and ends with looking good and not much in between. The grilled bread tastes like it was fried in mildly used fryer oil, the beef had been seared, concentrating the taste and saltiness of what is already a strong, salted meat, and a layer of soulless sauerkraut made the sandwich too salty to consume and ill tasting at that.
It’s as if no one bothered to taste the stuff . Needless to say other items pulled the same stunt:
- Brownies that someone obviously put a lot of time into crafting, but lacking in sufficient cocoa to taste chocolatey enough to cover up the oil (not butter) base.
- Pretty sandwiches with too much thick, bland bread that washes out that taste of the pleasant and mild meats and cheeses that they contain.
- I recall a cheese platter from last year that had a big spread of European ‘style’ cheeses, with exactly one cheese that was worth anything.
And those were the star performers, other less desirable entrees were the ridiculously oversized hotdogs made from nothing but salt and grease and pizza from Pizza Pan (seriously, is the worst pizza joint in town the best you can do?). In fairness though what makes me truly sore is that by and large it appears that they use great ingrediants, but the execution of assembling them is so awful.
I seem to remember someone telling me that the kitchen used for the luxury boxes is the same one used for the elegant Terrace Club, but I’d more likely guess that ‘box’ food comes from the depths of the lower levels, or maybe the Terrace Club staff is too busy making the great, elegant dishes for their main restaurant to bother with the stuff for the luxury boxes.
Either way, vendors don’t have to bother to invite me back there as the food is….disgusting; and I’m not a picky eater.
(If anyone is doing a Browns game though….oh my goodness that’s good stuff!)
By Steven McNutt, on August 1st, 2010
While uninstalling Exchange 2003 I was getting the error “you cannot remove a server that is a target bridgehead for a routing group connector. This server is a target bridgehead for the following connections”. I deleted the connector on the Exchange 2003 server, but I still received the uninstall error. This post clued me in that I should be looking for something on the new Exchange 2010 server, and after performing a Remove-RoutingGroupConnector in the Exchange console I was able to uninstall (though just be sure to have that Exchange 2003 ISO laying about).
By Steven McNutt, on July 2nd, 2010
I remember an old version of Exchange had the ILS service and upon ‘upgrading’ I noticed that the feature had been eliminated, and nothing much added to the package, apart from management headaches (“You want to flush the queues? Sorry!”). For SMBs, the highpoint of Microsoft Exchange was version 5.5, though the RPC over HTTP feature which was added in 2003 is a notable exception. I never got a chance to really use ILS so I didn’t really miss it, but I thought the functionality was promising and it provided a nice feature beyond a generic IMAP/SMTP setup.
A little bit ago I upgraded our Exchange 2007 to 2010. Although we got the upgrade ‘for free’ via SA, the main driver for the migration was so that I could allow an Apple Mac user to access file shares via OWA (Outlook Web Access/Application). With such a nice feature it didn’t even occur to me that Microsoft would dump it, so when I read up and learned that A) OWA on Exchange 2007 only supports Premium OWA on Internet Explorer and B) Network file share access is only available under Premium OWA and C) Exchange 2010 supports all platforms/browsers under Premium OWA, ergo D) Upgrade Exchange to 2010 to allow my (important) Mac user to access file shares via Premium OWA.
But alas no; even though the Exchange 2010 console appears to support file share access, it has in fact been removed:
I browsed the ‘”What’s new” for Exchange 2010, but unfortunately I don’t see anything in there that I can hang my hat on that makes it worthwhile to have spent a weekend upgrading it. There’s the advantage that I’m now very early in the upgrade cycle so it will be some time before I have to upgrade again, but that’s just upgrading for the sake of upgrading (which is not without it’s appeal, but still…).
By Steven McNutt, on July 1st, 2010
I’ve upgraded our Exchange 2007 setup to Exchange 2010 and two irksome issues cropped up that sponged up a great deal of my time:
- First, when I was moving users (aka ‘local move’) in a remote domain from the Exchange 2007 server to the Exchange 2010 server I was receiving the ‘insuff_access_rights’ error and I was unable to move the mailbox*. Eventually I did have to do the ’include inheritable permissions’ checkbox on most of the users, but since that didn’t work right away I investigated quite a bit more before finding that the permissions for various ‘Exchange’ entries at the root of the remote domain within active directory users and computers were “goofed”. Things went more smoothly after setting the matching entries to (about) the same permissions as the ones at the host domain.
- I couldn’t uninstall Exchange 2007 since it was hosting unremovable folders on the public folder database (‘Internet Newsgroups’, etc.). I tried to do things the right way, but wound up resorting to the ASDI edit tip here.
*By the way, I liked the ‘cached move’ method in Exchange 2010, but why can I clear out the flags for successful moves in the GUI, but I have to resort to a painful command line method if it fails? (Which, it failed for me a lot while working on it).
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