Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Looks like Monday until all the email is moved and then some.

[flipper35]

We are an exchange shop and were before I arrived on scene. It was a pain just migrating from an older version of exchange to the newest one. I can't imagine going to a cloud based service. Our CEO keeps asking about moving to a "service" and I keep asking how he would justify the cost of a leasing fee over owning it outright. I could see if we outgrew our situation, but we have only 220 or so mailboxes but a fair amount of turnover. Having everything tied together works out relatively well at the moment.

[RKDinOKC]

840 mailboxes on 2007. outlook.office365.com is cheaper than upgrading from 2007 to 2010 or 2013 including hardware, Especially if you consider 25Gig of mail storage for each user. Well, at least the quote was, not too sure after all their consultant fees to actually get everything moved.
License management is going to cause problems they are only getting 635 licenses. That math don't work where I went to school.

We have had our Russian office on office365 for mail for 4 years now, there is only one user though. We had her on our server and she gritched about connection being dropped all the time, put her on Russian Godaddy email service and she still gritched about connection and made me call tech support even though godaddy offered tech support in russian. So put her on office365 and found the connection problems were all her local russian ISP. Now she gritches about the web interface and doesn't want to bother with using Outlook. Had to have the Director of IT tell her tough nugies to shut her up.

Seems like if this consulting company does these migrations they should know how to set things so I don't have to sit thru two 3 hour conference calls of them mucking about with settings and it still not working. There are LOTS of online checklists.

Just have to go with the flow. Boss tells me they can blame the consultants so we don't get in trouble for problems. Guess that is a form of Job Security.

Have a LOT less problems with my Zipbang.com Kerio Connect Server and it does everything Exchange does and then some for half the cost.

[flipper35]

We are a 501c3 and the license was purchased through Tech Soup. We had the infrastructure and hardware for virtualization so there was really no hardware cost involved in our case. It is also all tied in with our domain which makes it easier to manage. If we move I will take a look at Kerio.

Sounds like your consultants are from Dogbert Consulting.

[Jim Richards]

Just finished up getting title & tags for the garage queen at the.CA DMV. Except for finding a place to park, the whole thing went smooth and fast. Now, I need to get my ass back to work on the house!

[porsche4life]

I'm on office 365 thru go daddy for my email and I love it. Great email and support, plus the whole office suite for $9/month...

[RKDinOKC]

The horror is moving from a in-house system to the 365 stuff. Domain part of logins change, where to login changes, and password rules are different. And our company Active Directory forest is company.org not company.com, but our email is @company.com. 365 doesn't like that.

One of the things I noticed as weird. All the documentation I've seen says when migrating from any older version of Exchange on-site, to setup a 2013 Exchange server to handle email distribution and migration during the process. Our consultants have installed a 2010 exchange server, then all kinds of patches and programs for the tools that are already in 2013 to handle the migration and distribution. hmmmm.

[RKDinOKC]

Woo hoo, got my last tax form today. Now all I need is to put together my bills for the house to do the home office exemption and I can do my taxes.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

I'm on office 365 thru go daddy for my email and I love it. Great email and support, plus the whole office suite for $9/month...

One month of 200+ addresses would be more than we paid for Exchange at your rate. They do have discounts for not for profit, but it is still considerably less expensive in our case to stay in house.

Now if we could get rid of our current document management stuff I would be happy. We get more calls and help desk tickets generated on that more than anything else. Close to half at this point.

Well, the 911 is going away. Not sure if I will sell as is or get the wiring done first.

[porsche4life]

You can sell to me as is... Straight trade for a pickup?

[flipper35]

I don't need another truck. Sorry.

If we were talking J-3, Champ or something...

[porsche4life]

You'd better have a pile of cash with it if you want to trade for a cub!!

[Rick V]

Okay Nerds, step aside and let a real main in please
I decided today that the plasma cutter would be the best option to remove my dead, burnt up lift, man that was fun, and I only started two unwanted fires. My boss thinks I am a little off in the head and the Honduran boys call me Loco.

[RKDinOKC]

Decathalon would be my choice so I could do more than the typical hours of tedious boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

[RKDinOKC]

You could trade the bug with carb problems for the 911 with electrical problems. That would be pretty funny.

[porsche4life]

I'm good with electrics.... Just replace the whole damn harness! That's how I sorted the bug out!

[RKDinOKC]

Well, just get puppy house broken and we have to start putting Mom in rubber underwear. The puppy was much easier to clean up after.

Hope the puppy doesn't decide if Mom's gonna go anywhere she can tooo.

[RKDinOKC]

Talked to the guy that is doing my wheels. Says he has gotten all the pieces now and only needs the rim inner and outer barrel parts welded and should be done in a week. Getting much closer to new wheels for the GTS!

[Jim Richards]

That's great, Richard. Your GTS is gonna look great with those new wheels.

[RKDinOKC]

Starting to get excited...




Been waiting over a year!