That's exactly what I mean by poorly thought out. The product should work the way Exchange and Outlook is designed to work. It should send meeting requests. That could be done from any old client computer.
Ed Crowley Compaq Computer --- "Harmon, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ 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]
