Yes, I’m having a bad day at work. No, it’s not my fault, nor is it the fault of work or the ether. It’s not even the fault of the day of the week (the week is composed of five days called Monday).
Some genius at work listened to a salesman (his first mistake) and now we have an office full of Canon printer/scanner/copiers. What an unqualified load of manure these machines are. They are constantly breaking. Whenever the mail server reboots, we have to go back in and re-set each copier to use our mail system. What kind of nonsense is this?
I took a lot of crap because we were running Microsoft Exchange 2003. We took a long time to upgrade from the previous version for good reason. Since work was virtualizing all the servers, I suggested getting a consultant to assist us with Exchange, as it was not behaving on our first attempt. While I was out, the plans suddenly changed and POOF, we were `upgrading’ to Exchange 2007.
It’s been a month and we have yet to have a stable email system since then.
In addition to the other issues, there are some problems involving Active Directory and Exchange. Yet so many companies are using Exchange 2007. Why is this such a problem? Our IT audit company said they just got done their 2007 migration and it was a disaster for them too.
WHY?
There are all sorts of new and interesting things to learn about Exchange 2007, including Power Shell (heaven help us). Unfortunately the people we’re paying to assist us are having a bit of trouble themselves. This does not bode well for us learning and applying the technologies.
Back in the `old days’ (before we were born), manufacturers took pride in their products. They would never release things that were no good or not ready for prime time. In Microsoft’s case, I have long maintained that we are all Microsoft’s beta testers and we pay dearly for the privilege. As for Canon, I’d just prefer never to even think about them again. The best thing that could happen to our Canons is C-4 (explosives).
And Now, Windows 7
I have two of the same computers, one running XP and one with 7. XP flies along, 7 drags. All of the foo-foo graphics have been shut off so the OSes look the same. There are 3gigs of RAM in both machines, as well as current dual-core processors. The XP installation has been around for a few months while 7 was freshly installed on an out of the box Dell.
The 7 machine has not crashed at all. Unfortunately it can’t seem to get out of its own way, primarily with Office 2003 applications but also with others. I just removed Office so I could reinstall. Just the MS removal took close to 30 minutes. Revo Uninstaller found over 400 things MS left behind in the registry.
Now that I’m reinstalling, the CPU widget indicates 100% usage and the main setup screen has not come up completely yet. Many minutes later I seem to be stalled at `Registering extension servers’ for quite a while. And now, “Windows Installer is no longer responding”
Ok, I give up, I’m gonna reinstall or repair Win 7.
P.S. I don’t have this trouble in linux.