It’s not like I haven’t been doing anything, though.
- I’ve finally joined the iPhone population and dreamed up a few application ideas that I’m eager to try.
- I put my senior design project to rest, thank GOODNESS, as it was *supposed* to be a 4 person project but myself and one other team member did 100% of the work. We never really finished the project to the level I had anticipated, either. I hope to pick it up and continue development. More on that later.
- Lastly, I’m in the midst of an Exchange 2007 deployment, upgrading from Exchange 2000. The push for this, as you may have guessed, is the iPhone 2.0 ActiveSync integration capabilities. I’ve got an Exchange 2007 server up and running in an AD 2003 environment with the Exchange 2000 server functioning as the main mailbox server. The ‘07 box has just a few mailboxes, such as mine so that I can get my email pushed to my iPhone, but my Outlook clients (Vista and XP, both 2007) continue to have a problem with the Offline Address Book which I’m troubleshooting. I’m also fighting a backup strategy.
- I guess there’s one more…I’ve deployed an NTBackup strategy in lieu of purchasing additional NetVault licenses for less-important servers (apps/IIS). So far so good. My plan for testing those backups and creating the actual test lab environment will be coming shortly. I will be spending most of my time establishing a mirror of our domain using 4 servers: one DC, one mail server, one IIS server, and one app server; I will be restoring the NTBackups to these boxes in hopes of proving the solidity of my backup plan. After all, how good is a backup plan if you never actually test by restoring?
