The New “What did you do with your Z today” (with off topic replies) XXXVI

bunk · 06-05-2020, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Leingod

Cause conveying that message to the powers that be was apparently to difficult and I am left to suffer the fallout....

I can see a small company not knowing the ramifications of a major deployment, but a bank?

Anywhere I worked, small and large companies, I made sure a major change started as soon as the weekend began (long weekends preferred) and that all relevant departments, including operations, were on standby. If any executive had an issues with the timeline, they could kiss my @ss. I point out how much money in productivity can be lost, not to mention data loss, is possible if that deployment goes down hill and engineers/techs are under so much pressure that they will make mistakes. They end up seeing the light...lol

madwi · 06-05-2020, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by bunk

I can see a small company not knowing the ramifications of a major deployment, but a bank?

Anywhere I worked, small and large companies, I made sure a major change started as soon as the weekend began (long weekends preferred) and that all relevant departments, including operations, were on standby. If any executive had an issues with the timeline, they could kiss my @ss. I point out how much money in productivity, not to mention data loss, is possible if that deployment goes down hill and engineers/techs are under so much pressure that they will make mistakes. They end up seeing the light...lol

We had a special team of engineers and analysts on hand 24/7 for over a week when we migrated from groupwise to outlook365. All teams were present for all ops meetings and when deployment began.

bunk · 06-05-2020, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by madwi

We had a special team of engineers and analysts on hand 24/7 for over a week when we migrated from groupwise to outlook365. All teams were present for all ops meetings and when deployment began.

Yup. Thats a pretty solid change process. How did you guys migrate gw over? The clinic still uses gw and we found a utility to migrate it over. I forgot the name of it,, but basically creating a user folder in outlook and export and dumping all the gw stuff into it.
Our last affiliate didnt even want to touch that migration.

madwi · 06-05-2020, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by bunk

Yup. Thats a pretty solid change process. How did you guys migrate gw over? The clinic still uses gw and we found a utility to migrate it over. I forgot the name of it,, but basically creating a user folder in outlook and export and dumping all the gw stuff into it.
Our last affiliate didnt even want to touch that migration.

Our datacenter lead is a glutton for punishment and he worked with M$. DC and the engineers ended up writing a util that handled the key elements.

bunk · 06-05-2020, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by madwi

Our datacenter lead is a glutton for punishment and he worked with M$. DC and the engineers ended up writing a util that handled the key elements.

Would it be possible to share that utility? Does it actually restore the emails into the appropriate folders or does it just put them in archive?

Pintsize725 · 06-05-2020, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by madwi

if you got a food sealer thingy majig beans last quite a while that way in the freezer.

No we don't. Thinking of just buying a sealable opaque bin and storing it in a cabinet I can't reach. (most of them)

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Originally Posted by Ghostvette

Freezer works well for ground coffee. At least, I can't tell any difference. Fair disclosure, my taste buds are ruined after 20 years of chow hall coffee....

Yeah, I think coffee absorbs smells lol.

bunk · 06-05-2020, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Pintsize725

No we don't. Thinking of just buying a sealable opaque bin and storing it in a cabinet I can't reach. (most of them)

Yeah, I think coffee absorbs smells lol.

We had an E5 in my platoon. Everytime we had guard duty for the week, he would pop whole coffee beans in his mouth like they were candy.

madwi · 06-05-2020, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Pintsize725

No we don't. Thinking of just buying a sealable opaque bin and storing it in a cabinet I can't reach. (most of them)

madwi · 06-05-2020, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by bunk

Would it be possible to share that utility? Does it actually restore the emails into the appropriate folders or does it just put them in archive?

I can tell you without asking them, no. That stuff is kept under wraps and in house. I have no idea how it works. To paraphrase, It has worked in testing and we are confident it will work during the rollout.

bunk · 06-05-2020, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by madwi

I can tell you without asking them, no. That stuff is kept under wraps and in house. I have no idea how it works. To paraphrase, It has worked in testing and we are confident it will work during the rollout.

I should tell the exchange guys that its possible then... that might extend my contract...lol

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