[RKDinOKC]

Oh Man, my current project is using the transport rules in Exchange to automatically add signature to everyone's email to standardize them.

Just making a simple internal email signature like below is a challenge.

Richard K Davis, ESQ
Friendly Neighborhood Email Administrator
Ext. 1234 | M 405.555.1212 | @zipbang.com

Some people have extensions, some don't...same with mobile phones. So there has to be different rules for each option. And the only logic is if a field like MobilePhone contains certain text like "M" to NOT use that rule. ie reverse logic. It takes 4 separate rules to do the signature above depending on the phone combinations.

Then there is the way different Email Clients render html and fonts and their sizes, spacing, and line heights. The html has to be old school in-line styles. No style sheets.. and about half the time Exchange changes or completely removes the html style coding.

If that wasn't challenge enough, when you make a change to the transport rule that adds a signature it may take anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours for the change to take effect so you can see what that change did.

What a challenge indeed. An exercise in Creativity, Resourcefulness, Endurance, Determination, and Patience.

Think it is interesting the only people that want their title's like ESQ after their name are HR and Training. Nobody else cares.