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Yet More Exchange 2003 Stuff

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I read a powerpoint last night that was part of a MSDN webcast on RPC over HTTP for Exchange. It looks like I have done everything I need to do. I can only see 1 or 2 thinks that may not be right, but I am being told they should be. 1: I don’t have a valid SSL ID. I am using one that posts an error when you bring up the site in HTTPS. The power-point vaguely mentions ssl has to work without errors. Also a checkbox in outlook 2003 is grayed out. The problem is the option is checked but grayed out. I need it checked, but I don’t know if it is bad that I cannot modify the option. All the documentation says I should be able to.

If I cannot get this working by the end of tonight I will put up an Exchange 2000 server until I can figure out this mess. I feel defeated right now:(

Tired, But Couldn’t Sleep

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Thankfully I do have my sleeping habits back almost to normal. Unfortunately last night I didn’t sleep very well. My pager kept going off about a problem that keeps correcting itself before I even get the page. (the delay in the page getting to me is short, but in this case long enough for the system to check itself again and find that everything is in fact working fine). Then I woke up at 4am and couldn’t go back to sleep.

Now I am yawning all the time and I haven’t even got to work yet. As long as I don’t get a head ache I will be grateful.

Rain And Delays

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The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is delayed again today for unmentioned equipment problems. This is the second time this week that I have been delayed due to them. Monday I left work an hour later than normal. I was happy with myself since I got on an express train to my stop. Of course literally 1 minute after we left penn station we stopped in the tunnel. We had a bad train. First the door lights wouldn’t work so they crew couldn’t tell if all the doors were secured. Then the breaks were not working correctly. We sat on the tracks for 20 minutes until we started moving. then we sat outside Woodside for another 20 minutes. they didn’t say why but from the amount of trains passing us very fast the LIRR wanted to clean out their congestion of trains before they let us off at Woodside to get on another train. That train of course was a local. My normally 50 – 60 minute commute door to door took almost 2 hours. Thanks LIRR.

It is raining today so delays are expected. I don’t wish to speak to soon, but we are moving along at a decent clip right now. it is always a crap shoot with these guys.

Poker Again, Maybe

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Dan wants to do poker thursday. We shall see if anyone gives the ok to doing it. I am in, unless I am wiped out from the Wednesday late night upgrade. I think we may also have a party at work that day so we may have a conflict.

Other Updates

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Today I ran through some test upgrades to see if a DB upgrade I am going to do tomorrow will work ok. My problem is that I have been unable to truly simulate the current environment so my tests failed. I am working to correct the problem tomorrow.

I am also trying to get a fix for some phone monitoring software we had installed last week. we got this software and it just doesn’t work. thankfully we haven’t paid for it yet.

I got install dates for my new voice T-1 that we are getting. I also got final pricing on new data circuits we need for our VOIP traffic.

Tomorrow will be a late night to run software upgrades at work.

Still No Exchange

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I stayed up late last night working on getting Exchange 2003 to work correctly. So far I have not succeeded. Howard put me in touch with David at idealab. He has done the deployment before and he was very helpful. Thanks to him I have an idea of what needs to be done. I went through all the documentation he sent me. I got further along in the process than I did before, but still nothing. I am now going over all my settings to verify I did everything correctly. so far it looks like I have done everything expected of me. I am getting frustrated with being unable to get this to work. I have a few more things to try tonight when I get home.

The Holy Grail

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The holy grail for me the past 4 days has been configuring Exchange 2003 to use RPC over HTTP and getting it to work. So far nothing. I have gotten 2 exchange servers to work, but I need to be on the LAN in order to get mail via outlook 2003. I can use the web interface but that isn’t good enough. I can use a vpn connection, and that wont work either. I am so close but it still wont work.

I would like to thank Microsoft for their totally lack of a support selection on this topic. I have all 3 documents regarding the topic printed out. they barely mention how to install the dam service. You would think that would be an important part of the process.

I am just burnt out right now. I have been taking all of my spare time this weekend to get this to work. I am just frustrated because I am so close to getting it to work.

iTunes For Windows

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So like allot of people I downloaded Apple’s iTunes for windows when it came out. Actually it was a few days after it came out since I was sick and didn’t read about its release for a while, but you get the point. It looked great, exactly like iTunes for Mac. The problem is that when I run it on my Thinkpad T40 it brings the system to a crawl. I cannot click or move the iTunes window when it is running. I am not sure what is wrong. I installed it twice to make sure nothing went wrong with the install. Still no dice. I am going to try it on another machine at home and then decide if it is worth the trouble. It just works on my mac!

I think that ends my bitch session about recent technology that I have dealt with…

iChat AV

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So I looked at the Apple iChat AV program yesterday. I have also played with it in the Apple store before. It is really cool. I think I would actually try to use it. The only problem is that it only works with other iChat AV users. I am not buying hardware for a chat system that only like 10 people use, and none of them are people I know. I do want to play with a net cam. It is a dead fad, but I think it was a good idea.

Lost Blog’s

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When I backed up data from my powerbook I forgot to backup Kung-Log the offline blog editor I use. I mentioned that before, but I am trying to figure out what I wrote about that I lost. I cannot remember. It was very early last week and I don’t remember what I was blabbing about.

I do remember 2 entries I was writing about. I was doing two long entries about the computers I have used over the years, and the many cell phones I have had. All that writing gone in a poof. Oh well. Maybe I saved them online as drafts? I don’t think I was that smart. When moving to new computers you always loose something. If that is what I lost, I am ok with it. It is funny, at work it is unacceptable to loose anything when moving a user to a new computer. But lets face it, no one is going to remember to grab everything. I am a good user and I didn’t remember the dam blog entries.