[Geek] Upgrade mostly complete :)

[azekeil]

The upgrade had many.. hiccups, but it's completed now. I spent from 11pm last Monday night until 5:30am on the Tuesday morning, then from 9:30am on Tuesday until 12:30am on Wednesday morning.

I've spent most evenings since then (bar the weekend) tweaking, fixing and updating. I now have an upgraded server, hosting it's own wireless access point, Exchange, and nearly all of the important services that the old server had.

Now I just need to get everyone set up with Exchange and ensure they're happy with it, figure out a backup mechanism for it, etc.

It's taken a fairly monumental effort, but I've got there, and I'm happy with the results :)

On a side note, I got into work and it was still fairly gloomy. I got back from work and it was gloomy. Winter - bah, humbug.

Comments

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Yes. My suspicions were correct - I ended up leaving two separate DNS zones - the original internal one and the AD-required one, but I configured the www. name in the AD one pointing at my router's internal address, and the full name in the internal zone. This fixed the majority of my issues. I've yet to check if ActiveSync now works (I've left my iPod Touch at kissycat1000's) but the folder permission problem has gone and most other things now work.

I have a spare server of almost exactly those specs now. I think work has a lot of machines too - you might be able to cadge one of them ;)

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Hooray! :)

Say a 2.4GHz Celeron with 2GB of RAM? I could do...