So, I have to do some coding in VB.NET at work, updating an in-house
management tool for Exchange accounts - we're upgrading to 2007 over
the next 4-6 months, and it uses PowerShell (POWER! SHELL!), not CDO.
So, anyway, I have a nice little VM environment set up under Parallels
on my MacBook. Three Server 2003 systems, AD, Ex2k3, Ex2k7, and an XP
client with Visual Studio and all the trimmings.
Things were going swimmingly, until yesterday when I installed the
latest .NET 2.0 service pack. OH GOD THE PAIN. Now each bloody system
that has anything even vaguely related to .NET installed has slowed to
a crawl. That's the AD server (cos it has SQL server 2005 (don't ask),
with it's VS-like management interface), and the XP client.
Finally worked out that it's bloody .NET with it's optimisation
service (what?!?), so stopped that, and eventually the AD server
calmed down, but for the effing life of me I can't get the XP client
to chill the fsck out and actually run with any degree of stability.
Simply running tasklist in a cmd.exe window will slow to a crawl.
HATE.
Did I mention that I need to have 99% of this work completed by CoB
tomorrow? and that I'm only about 50% done?
HATE HATE HATE
