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February 05, 2004
Outside the Box
Hello, folks. As Paul said, I've got UNIX on my resume -- quite a bit of it, in fact. I come from humble systems administration roots, a good chunk of it spent babysitting ISPs. The key principle there was "Make the services that customers want to pay for work." That meant using Solaris, Windows, Linux -- whatever. As such, I've become quite agnostic over the years -- every piece of hardware and software is a result of design compromises and as such, everything has its warts.
That said, working with 3sharp and Paul and Missy has given me a new appreciation for Exchange. It's all too easy to become cynical and bitter about it if you don't take the time to really learn what it is capable of (and kudos to Microsoft for increasing those capabilities with each release!) and where it is strong.
I'd like to echo Missy's question and encourage you to let us know what sorts of things you want to see. My own slant on this, though, is that I want to know what you do with Exchange that might be outside of the typical Exchange box. These kind of real-world situations are useful to tell us how people are using Exchange and to uncover new general categories of recipes that need to be written.
Posted by Devin Ganger at February 5, 2004 01:40 PM