April 10, 2007
We received yet another SBSC exclusive here at the Funcave today. The Special Edition April MAPS Toolkit for SBSC finally arrived.
Although it’s prolly a huge hit to the environment, I do appreciate the plastic box that houses this stuff. Not only does it reduce the amount of damage during mailing to basically nil, but it also makes for much neater shelving of the material after I’m done going through it.
Yes, I go through eveything in each kit. I read all the notes, review all the indexes & make notes about the contents, categorizing items so I can tell what our company can & should use immediately, what we need to look at in more depth later, and what we need to totally ignore. Ya see, if I simply shelve the stuff, 9 times out of 10 I’d never look at it again & would therefore never know all the resources I’ve got at my disposal.
Then something on the spine of this one caught my eye…
Now when I see one label atop another, I cannot resist trying to find out what’s on that bottom label. And thanks to some very careful peeling, I was rewarded with this…
Ah yes…nothing like being on the cutting edge, is there?
Well, if all you do after receiving something like this from Microsoft is stick it on the shelf, or throw it on the edge of your desk, or throw it on a pile of previously received kits that end up resembling nothing so much as a modern art masterpiece…
you have no one to blame but yourself for being out of the loop, stuck in the past & hopelessly out of date.
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March 2, 2007
just like dinner time at the ponderosa ranch…
it’s time to come & get it!
the newest dst patches for windows mobile are now available via mothership’s download site.
to save you some time…
so quit yer yakkin’ & get to crackin’!
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March 2, 2007
that’s right kiddos.
in an amazing lack of foresight & planning…
the ability to determine what calendar items were created pre-dst 2007 patch & which were created post-dst 2007 patch was amazingly not included in the tzmove.exe application.
oh, but don’t worry, susan…
now there’s a hotfix! with a 14 page kb article to boot!
who fracking coded this? redmond’s janitor?
now, keep in mind…
since both the end-user & the exchange server rebasing methods both use tzmove.exe, when it comes to navigating the deadly straits known as the dst 2007 changes…
the integrity of all your exchange data rests upon this little tzmove executable!
which, quite frankly, stinks.
all i can say to exchange admins everywhere…
welcome to the funcave!
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March 2, 2007
that’s what the dst patches from ms feel like.
here’s what a small sampling of my customers have said about the way dst updates & info were released from microsoft…
what were they thinking?
were they thinking?
who in their right mind would release this kind of stuff?
haven’t they known about this for a couple of years?
what were they doing for 2 years?
are they insane?
sure, we could all just throw off on politicians & their half-baked ideas that always seem to manifest as capricious changes to stuff like dst.
but that still doesn’t change the fact that ms has totally & utterly acted like an ostrich with its head in the sand regarding dst.
according to some folks, exchange is mothership’s flagship product.
i’d argue that redmonds’ real flagship products are white papers, faqs & patches, but i digress.
either way, hearing ms talk about the centrality of exchange 2007 makes the cockamamie level of support for dst changes on previous versions all the more confusing. if i wanted to sell customers my newest version, the very last thing i’d do would be to leave them hanging out to dry with the current version they are running. all that will do is make them start looking for alternatives.
here’s what i’d argue is the real-world experience of most companies. if there is any patch management going on, it looks like this:
since ms flagged the dst updates as critical, those workstations got the patch automagically, as soon as it was released a couple of weeks or so ago, right?
so loooooong before exchange had been updated at the back-end server level, in all likelihood the end clients had started laying in appointments that were correctly based.
then along comes the admin, to load the patches on the server & rebase the calendars.
since the end-user patch process wasn’t correctly timed…
& this update, above all others, is hideously time sensitive…
when either rebasing tool is run, the resultant mix of basing that occurred after the client side patches were loaded means the changes that get applied to calendars are the rough equivalent of what happens to a watermelon that gets loaded into the iconic sledgeomatic.
add to this the fact that rebasing, no matter what tool you use, is a one-shot deal.
so no matter what the outcome, you’re stuck with it.
that’s pitiful.
so, from the robot horde at the funlab…
good luck kiddos.
we’re all gonna need it.
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February 23, 2007
update: the patches are out!
for those of you with windows mobile 5 devices who have yourselves all patched up & think it’s miller time…
think again.
thought i’d point out this little tidbit from mothership’s own windows mobile bungalow, just to make sure no one missed it…
NOTE: For some versions of Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC, there will be additional updates required that will be available the week of February 26. We apologize for the inconvenience.
well isn’t that just a kick in the pants…err, pocket.
hang tight kiddos.
either the funcave or the diva’s lair will post up as soon as we see anything.
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