End of the Day of No Work
Jan. 12th, 2002 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerSo....
I sat about the office waiting for the upgrade guy to do the upgrade. I read some mail, read some newsgroups, wrote some journal entries and generally lazed.
Erin arrived back in the country at 13:00, so I phoned her a couple of times to make sure she was getting back in one piece (she was tired beyond belief, but she made it back eventually), and to be honest I'd rather have been back in Stirling with her. But what the heck, we were getting this upgrade done, weren't we?
Actually, no. After about 3 hours of fun because we had two network cards in the machine, we finally got the Exchange 5.5 mailboxes copied across to the new machine, so that we could upgrade it to Exchange 2000 without losing the old server.
Unfortunately, at this point we discovered that the old machine had been running Exchange 5.5 Enterprise, not Exchange 5.5 Standard. The difference between the two is a little bit more scalability and about £5000. And you can't downgrade from Enterprise to Standard. And you can't copy the files from a machine running Enterprise onto a machine running Standard. And we only bought Exchange 2000 Standard.
After a brief conflab, where we decided that we could just install Exchange 2000 Enterprise and that when MS found out they'd probably only kill one of the three of us as an example, leaving the others of us merely penniless and starving, we decided to try a few roundabout things - like borrowing Exchange 5.5 Standard from someone else, moving everything across, or other more technical solutions that I won't bore you with here.
Upshot, at 5:10, I left for the evening, leaving Graham and John (the upgrade guy) trying to think of a new solution. Graham's gonna call me at 10:30 tomorrow morning and tell me if they got anywhere. If they have, I go in to actually get stuff done. Otherwise, it's another week down before we get started on this upgrade that was supposed to happen last weekend.
Oh, and now Erin is lying snoring in the bed to my left, and I (having done nothing today) am not tired enough to sleep, so I'm idly surfing and typing up Livejournals.
Fantastic.
I sat about the office waiting for the upgrade guy to do the upgrade. I read some mail, read some newsgroups, wrote some journal entries and generally lazed.
Erin arrived back in the country at 13:00, so I phoned her a couple of times to make sure she was getting back in one piece (she was tired beyond belief, but she made it back eventually), and to be honest I'd rather have been back in Stirling with her. But what the heck, we were getting this upgrade done, weren't we?
Actually, no. After about 3 hours of fun because we had two network cards in the machine, we finally got the Exchange 5.5 mailboxes copied across to the new machine, so that we could upgrade it to Exchange 2000 without losing the old server.
Unfortunately, at this point we discovered that the old machine had been running Exchange 5.5 Enterprise, not Exchange 5.5 Standard. The difference between the two is a little bit more scalability and about £5000. And you can't downgrade from Enterprise to Standard. And you can't copy the files from a machine running Enterprise onto a machine running Standard. And we only bought Exchange 2000 Standard.
After a brief conflab, where we decided that we could just install Exchange 2000 Enterprise and that when MS found out they'd probably only kill one of the three of us as an example, leaving the others of us merely penniless and starving, we decided to try a few roundabout things - like borrowing Exchange 5.5 Standard from someone else, moving everything across, or other more technical solutions that I won't bore you with here.
Upshot, at 5:10, I left for the evening, leaving Graham and John (the upgrade guy) trying to think of a new solution. Graham's gonna call me at 10:30 tomorrow morning and tell me if they got anywhere. If they have, I go in to actually get stuff done. Otherwise, it's another week down before we get started on this upgrade that was supposed to happen last weekend.
Oh, and now Erin is lying snoring in the bed to my left, and I (having done nothing today) am not tired enough to sleep, so I'm idly surfing and typing up Livejournals.
Fantastic.
