Yeah... it's that kind of thing. By scheduling software I meant it needed access to everyone's calendar to put some items in a master calendar in a public folder. It reminded me a of a presentation I saw at the '99 MEC in Atlanta--they did something similar, but as I recall much cleaner.
Why VB Dev full install instead of an install package that registers necessary dlls?... good question... that's kind of what I was getting at. I'll be asking that. I get a feel that the developer was creative and not clueless... but I also get the feeling that he didn't know that much about an exchange environment--and how critical it is too keep stable. Could be wrong... haven't talked to them personally yet. And maybe I'm being overly sensitive to the old NT4.0 blue screen days. Haven't seen a lot of that since Win2k. We have a very nice test lab by the way... but just because it stays up for a couple of days in a test lab doesn't mean it's a good idea! :) Thanks for your input gentlemen. I guess I expected and agree with your conservative answers. We're admins after all... those developers are always trying to pull something crazy. :) It's only for one school within the university... I may move them to their own box if they throw a hissy and management won't back me. We'll see I guess. Josh -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:43 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Would you install Outlook and Visual basic on your exchange serve r? This vaguely reminds me of one certain CRM software package that I was being asked to support. It wasn't developed yet. It had to run under the Service Account because it needed access to everyone's mailbox. I made my recommendation to not allow it to be installed and management, to my surprise, backed me. I don't know if they ever redesigned their code to work the way Outlook intended. My advice: Lobby against this. It seems extremely poorly thought out. Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Tech Consultant Compaq Computer "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
