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The End of Customer Service....Part Two

posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:31 PM by cavis
ugh. I wasn't going to write about this since it doesn’t actually change anything. But yesterday’s post was mildly therapeutic. Here we go…… Back in April, I booked a flight from SoCal to Seattle, through Orbitz. When Read More
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The End of Customer Service....

posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 5:17 PM by cavis
I have decided customer service is dead. By dead, I mean it sucks. A couple of months ago I moved from one state to another. On one level I was excited to travel across country, see some places I have never been, and re-establish myself in a new community. Read More
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Badwater......don't drink it....

posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 7:26 AM by cavis
…but feel free to run it…   I was talking to some teammates about running and I mentioned a TV show I recorded about an endurance runner here in Seattle. He was showcased on a local program regarding his first attempt at running the Read More
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Big Changes coming to Technet Subscriptions....

posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 2:11 PM by cavis
I am sitting in a Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist session listening to Scott Stout, Program Director of the Microsoft Technet Subscription program, tell us about some great new changes and offerings in the Technet Subscription program. Check this out….. Read More
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Rant and Rave #1....just the address please....

posted Friday, July 21, 2006 1:23 PM by cavis
I have had an interesting time of late trying to identify a new ISP. Seems there is no single, unified place, anywhere in all of existence (that I can find) where I can provide only the service address and get a list of providers that service me. Read More
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Check out this AUV....

posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:06 AM by cavis
….and just what is an AUV? It is an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle… About two years ago I met Christopher Carter at a Technet Event in southern California. He and I talked about a project he was working on with some colleagues to make an Read More
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Windows Update very smooth with Windows 2003 R2...

posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:53 PM by cavis
When was the last time you went out to Windows Update? I started setting up a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise server this evening to add in as a DC to my home domain. I do this stuff all the time and have gotten pretty automatic with the process. I realized Read More
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Exchange 2003 Tips and Tricks Webcast

posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:27 PM by cavis
I am delivering a Webcast on Exchange 2003 Tips and Tricks this Friday at 11:30am Pacific Time. I will dive into some of the features of Exchange 2003 Server that you may not be familiar with or just don’t have an opportunity to work with on a Read More
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Upgrade to Community Server 2.0...

posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:13 PM by cavis
I just finsihed updating my blog server to Community Server 2.0. Fairly painless although it did take some rummaging around to get the MetaBlog posting working again with BlogJet. I won’t have a chance to dig into and enable any new features till Read More
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Shaving my head......

posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:15 AM by cavis
I am a little shocked that no one has been pestering me about if I am supposed to shave my head or not as a result of attendance at our SQL launch events last year. If you don’t know what I am talking about, read this….I’ll wait Read More
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Kaboom.

posted Friday, June 09, 2006 1:25 PM by cavis
Belly up. That is what happened to my DC’s on my home network. I just got around to identifying an issue with my firewall that has apparently kept the blog offline for quite awhile. I still have to move some hardware around to accomodate for some Read More
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The horror of it all....

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:41 PM by cavis
…so I sit down with my handy copy of Ghost to image my web server before making some last minute updates on the way to the CS upgrade. Only when I go to logon, I get a message that the system is unable to contact a domain controller. Quite Read More
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A little off the sides please....

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:12 AM by cavis
….I have trimmed my Category list significantly. No need to be so granular and if I need to I can create a new category. Also, looks like I am going to stick with CS.   Cheers! Read More
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