Just saw this going on in Carnaby Street at lunch time. no idea what’s going on, but clearly this bodes badly for my choice of career :oO
we're all fucked !
Archive for July, 2009
Party’s Over, Everyone Logoff, Go Home And e-Repent…..
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Everything Starts With An ‘e’……..
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Just read this post (admittedly, a little behind the times, but I have been very busy). It seems that in Europe, MS are being forced to remove IE from Windows 7 when it launches, and to comemerate this, all European versions of Windows 7 will have an ‘e’ appended to the product name (so for instance Windows 7 Home Premium ‘E’).
I cannot believe that with all the ‘smarts’ that work at MS this is the best idea they could come up with. The cost of x2 completely sets of packaging for US and EU materials !! And, seeing as what I suspect what will end up happening is a link on the desktop entitled ‘click here to install a web browser’ that will simply…..no wait for it…..download and install IE from the MS site, I have to ask ‘what’s the point ?’
Without this link for dummies, they would also appear to have created and chicken and egg type scenario (at least for the lowest demonination of user). If you have no browser on your PC, how do you download a browser ? Yes, I know the smarter among us can just ftp/sftp one down from our favourite downloads site, but I dont fancy trying to talk my parents through that particular operation on a week day evening :o(
Why not simply force MS to incude a bunch of the top browsers. That way people (even dumb ones) could just sample and then remove (or ignore if they have the disk space) the ones they don’t like ?
It also looks like there will be no upgrade option for Europe either. So clean installs all round with the gnashing of teeth as people realise they didn’t get everything off that they needed before wiping the system.
What I still find more outrageous is that MS are still inflicting their version of paint on people and the EU have not said a word…….!!
Where Did Everybody Go ?……
Friday, July 17th, 2009When creating dynamic distribution groups (DDG) on Exchange server 2007 (distribution lists (DL) where the members are derived from an ldap query) you need to specify the active directory container where the query is to be applied !!
Failure to specify this will result in the query scope being set to the default ‘domainname/users’ container (not a problem if this is where your users happen to be, mine do not !!). The problem was that the power shell command to get the members of a DDG was working fine for me, but the exchange management console was not (the console was right).
I created a ‘test’ DDG and set it to include all users who had a mailbox. I then sent it an email and……nothing happened. I used message tracking to find where my message was going and saw
EventID : Expand, RecipientCount : 0 Since there are no recipients, the Expand Event within the Routing task was not followed by a transfer or delivery
When exchange was expanding the DDG to get the members there were none :o(
It was around this time I spotted an available parameter for DDG, -RecipientContainer. The recipient container was currently set to ‘domainname/users’ which is not where my user objects are located, they are in ‘domainname/our stuff/user/<dept>’ where each <dept> is a departmental subfolder (allows me a lot of control for group policy objects !).
I adjusted the DDG –recipientcontainer to ‘domainname/our stuff’ and presto, the list bursts into action and everyone gets an email. The ldap query seems to be recursive as all users in all sub containers were affected.
So for exchange DDG’s it not just what you make, but where you point it too that matter :oO
