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Adventures in HMC

October 7th, 2008 | by matt | devdog

Oct
07

As many of my close friends know, I have been working on a project that is a roll out of a new Exchange 2007 platform for LightEdge Solutions. This has been an exciting project for me and one that has had many challenges. Over the next several months I will be sharing some of the challenges that we have run into with the rollout and HMC 4.5 (Hosted Messaging and Collaboration) and how we have worked around them.

I’m not a Microsoft programmer in any shape of the word. I’m a unix guy and based on my experiences working with the HMC SDK and trolling the ASP.net forums, I think that it is safe to say that I am the only person writing a control panel for HMC in PHP. Hopefully you’ll find the posts interesting and informative.

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Sloppy Documentation (HMC 4.x)

June 17th, 2008 | by matt | devdog

Jun
17

At work, I have a project that has been going on for a month or two. It originally started out as replacing our Hosted Exchange 2003 environment with a new fancy Exchange 2007 environment and add on extra features. To provision this, we have decided to abandon our own provisioning system due to various issues with documentation (or lack there of it) from Microsoft. So, we have decided to drink the Kool-Aid and are rolling with their HMC (Hosted Messaging and Collaboration). At first we were going to roll with the 4.0 version but a consultant stated that HMC 4.5 was expected to be out on 6/13. As it turns out, it was released yesterday.

I’m actually pretty excited about this. We have the ability to now add on other features that we couldn’t with HMC 4.0 like OCS 2007.

However, M$ is STILL screwing up on their documentation. Not really screwing up, but just lazy with it. The image is a prime example. If you notice what is selected on the left, it does not match the title or description on the right. There are multiple examples of this in the SDK. Surely, somewhere at Microsoft, there is a technical writer and editor that looks at this before it heads out the door.

I know, I know, some of you are saying that this is the pot calling the kettle black. And it is. I’m not the best writer in the world. But I can at least match the title and description to the section that I am writing about. Its clearly cut and paste documentation. I can’t wait to see what other gems I uncover.

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