I know where you're coming from.

I've spent the past few weeks proving that the system is actually correct when it comes to stock levels. Every day a depot will come to me and say the system levels are out for item xyz and yesterday they were fine (or something along those lines). I'll then spend the next hour investigating and the next hour and half trying to persuade the depot manager (or whoever) that the system is actually correct.

Most of the time it's down to paperwork not being done on time or paperwork being forward dated so that the system isn't up to date with what's actually happening.

Tomorrow I'm putting together a plan to hopefully make the whole thing more simple so that when the user thinks the system is wrong they can see it for themselves, count it up and realise that the depot is wrong.

Lulwut?

Most of the police have more important things to do, but because it's a geordie we get them southern fairy police up, the ones that need guns and dogs to arrest a man

Mind I saw local fuzz taking away a car with no plates on yesterday evening.

(FYI the roundabout the policeman was shot on is on my commute, and I hope they catch him, had enough local coppers die due to scumbags over the past couple of years)

Why are you moving to exchange?

Ease of maintenance, combined calendaring, contacts, notes, public folders etc.

I've used Exchange and IMAP, as an admin, there isn't much between them, as a user, the complete integration of Outlook and Exchange makes a very nice environment, especially in larger organisations, planning meetings and resource usage etc.

Hahahahaha. Oh, ... sorry. really, I shouldn't laugh.


We already had all of that, in our old system. The thing that was killing 'user experience' was there was a client side outlook plugin that effectively proxied all of it's connections to MAPI for outlook which was a pile of crap and made outlook if anything even more unstable. That's basically the reason why we're going with Exchange. The business requirement is 'we want what works best with Outlook'. However we're using Exchange 2010 under which public folders are, if not deprecated, then at least strongly discouraged. They'd much rather we bought SharePoint, thank you.


Well there is more than one 'flavour' of IMAP server, plus there are many and varied infrastructure bits on which they may depend, just as Exchange largely depends on AD. Obviously, if previously you only had email Exchange is a big jump, but in our case it is less so.

Jon

Chill, dudes! Jon: Rape his inbox.

Ben: I know several people working for IS this coming year. I can give you names, addresses and phone numbers.

That said, my IY *still* isn't sorted. There must be something about me, since several people have reviewed my CV for me and reported it to be pretty good, and yet I've not heard a single reply back yet.