What about wine? A nice red wine from the Australian outback or something.

 

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:10 PM
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> So I won't.

Excellent idea.  That's enough with this thread.  Any more and I'll send you
both to bed with no supper.

Tony
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Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:22 a.m.
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Deji, 

I don't know where to start with most of your email. So I won't.

My hope is simply that someone doesn't follow this chain and is afraid to
say some person or software or company sucks when it does because someone
might interpret it wrong.



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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:24 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

Joe,
 
I had a mind to ignore you - because I'm SERIOUSLY trying to stay in my <not
paying attention> mode due to some pressing commitments right now. Also,
like I said before, I had an issue with the statement, the OP clarified it
and now I know how to relate to that OP henceforth. Are you trying to say
that I should have kept quite and formed a totally incorrect opinion, based
on a totally incorrect set of information about the OP? Would that have been
more preferable to you, more preferable than me appearing to be stuck on
some "Political Correctness"?
 
You have a right to be as "insensitive" as you want to be. I have an equal
right to call you out whenever your "right" starts crossing over. You do not
sit in judgment of MY interpretation of anything. I know you. I know you are
rude [1]. But we are not talking rude here - and, NO, you don't get to
decide what *I* consider rude. If you decide to take a huge brush and paint
a closed set of humanity with tar (say, because a subset of that closed set
like to wear tar), and you think you have the "right" to decide when the
rest of the set can "complain", THAT is NOT rudeness. It is something else
beyond rude.
 
OK, Joe, you know where to find me. I will debate you to infinity on this,
keystroke for keystroke - and this time, you are not going to win.
 
Now, REALLY back in <not paying attention> mode.
 
[1] Did I remember to say you are RUDE? Well, there ..... in case I didn't
say it before. <this is where the smiley would be - IF I weren't too busy to
insert it>
 
 
Sincerely,

Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
www.readymaids.com - we know IT
www.akomolafe.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday?  -anon

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of joe
Sent: Tue 10/11/2005 4:55 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates



Too much "professionalism" and "political correctness" can so water down the
content of the message or the crux of the problem that any conversation
simply becomes a waste of time as it becomes an experiment in how to not
hurt or, even worse in this context, how to elevate the feelings of others.
There are times that you really need to point out that someone or something
is really stupid or sucks, personally I think those times are every time
something is stupid or sucks. There is too much confusion and cloudiness
already to purposely cloud things up more on purpose for fear of being
attacked by the fashio^H^H^H^H^H^H politically correct police.

If people who want to post here feel that they can not honestly express
their opinion because they think they will be attacked or questioned for not
being "sensitive" I think we have impacted the forum in a negative fashion.
If someone is bothered by the verbiage or "feel" of a given post or poster,
ignore it, go on, do something else with your life[1]. Others can do the
same. I certainly ignore lots of people and what they say because quite
frankly they annoy the crap out of me or I feel the cost vs value equation
wasn't good enough for me to do otherwise. You saw me do it in person when
we worked together. You tell me, if back then I had dealt with every person
equally who felt they deserved my time how much real work would I have
gotten done? Call it rude, call it politically incorrect, I call it being
able to actually get things done.

I am not saying people should go out of their way to be rude and attack each
other, just that they shouldn't be so worried about the specific words they
use when voicing a problem or a solution that they consider the words more
than the issue they are trying describe or help with itself. The point that
occurs, things are all down hill.

I think I understood what Marcus was saying. I doubt most people on the list
had a problem understanding as well. It isn't a secret that many support
positions are going to India and that communicating with folks on those help
desks can be troublesome at best because you have to fight your way both
through a language barrier as well as a script barrier. Hell I have a good
friend who grew up in India, speaks Hindi perfectly, and still lives in
India 3 months out of the year and *he* doesn't have good things to say
about those help desks. He even comments that it isn't a language barrier
issue... 

I have no direct feel or involvement for the functions that have been moved
there for the company I currently work for so I have to assume that they are
doing it "right", but I have quite a bit of feel for the last company I
worked for that did it and it was rough at best. It wasn't a racial thing at
all as I have many friends from all over that part of the world who are top
notch. Those same people aren't working the cost-saver help desks over
there, just like the brilliant Genius+ level folks you talk to on the
product teams in Redmond aren't the folks answering the phone when you dial
1-800-help-me-MS. Companies are NOT moving help desks to that region for top
notch support. They are doing it for reduced costs. At least that is my
perception, I have yet to have heard a company executive say we are moving
help desk operations to India because it is substandard where we have it now
wherever else in the world. The comments to move support or development to
India has always started with... "In order to defray/reduce/mitigate our
support/development costs....".

Marcus seemed, to me, to be saying that despite those well known issues, he
would still rather deal with those issues than deal with Cisco. The
translation that occurred between my ears was that the Cisco support he
received really sucked. Amazingly so.


> regardless of how pejorative some people would like to make "Political
Correctness" sound

YUP!



  joe


[1] Actually recently on a perl list there was an all out whine-fest about
top versus bottom posting. Some guy helped someone with a problem but then
proceeded to whine that they top posted. All I wanted to do was shake the
guy and say, WTF did you help the person in the first place if this was so
important to you? I can only assume what that person's life is like...



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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:03 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

It helps to know the make-up of your audience in any forum. That helps
ensure a modicum of professionalism. The OP already clarifies his position,
and it helps to clear things up in my mind.

Nothing "politically correct" about that. Not that I have any problem with
asking for political correctness, mind you - regardless of how pejorative
some people would like to make "Political Correctness" sound.


Sincerely,

Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
www.readymaids.com - we know IT
www.akomolafe.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday?  -anon

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of joe
Sent: Tue 10/11/2005 2:08 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates



Oh no, please don't let this list become a politically correct patrolled
zone. I will just walk right away.



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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:23 PM
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>>>I think I'd rather talk miis to some dude in India before engaging a 
>>>Cisco
support rep again

Marcus,

I can't resist the urge to turn off my lurking mode and ask you to please
explain the relevance of the statement above to the scope of this
conversation, especially in this public forum. I am holding back the
irresistible urge to jump to conclusions, considering the fact that a
significant portion of the SMS (where you got your MVP) knowledge out there
are contributed by people from that part of the world.


Sincerely,

Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
www.readymaids.com - we know IT
www.akomolafe.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday?  -anon

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Sent: Tue 10/11/2005 7:45 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates



Exactly.  My beef too.  Let me tell you... there support is less than
stellar.  I think I'd rather talk miis to some dude in India before engaging
a Cisco support rep again.



:m:dsm:cci:mvp  marcusoh.blogspot.com <http://marcusoh.blogspot.com>

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:21 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates



>You ever find that often times the products are already bought before 
>your
input is requested?



The better question is when do they ever check with you before they buy a
product?  Nope...  They usually ask someone that has no clue of the impact
to the production systems then they bring it to us to "implement"



We have Unity and it has had a major impact to our AD environment although I
can say that the users (including me) love it's functionality.  What irks me
more though is the version that we implemented initially had major schema
changes and then the subsequent version decide to move a lot of the data
from
AD to a separate SQL DB.   Why didn't they tell me that BEFORE we
irrevocably
altered the schema.



Another good example is Cisco ICM.  The version prior to the new 7.x version
required a separate domain, required domain admin level privileges to
operate and schema changes to forest as well as a litany of other "issues".
At least version 7.x will integrate into an existing corporate domain
although requires a dedicated OU.  I really get nervous with applications
that want to create user objects wily-nily in order to operate.



Diane



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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 6:52 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

Our movement for Cisco Unity was based strictly on a wholesale move to Cisco
VoIP solutions all the way around.  Apparently there's some cost savings
there somewhere.  I dunno... regarding the comment joe made about not ever
being in your ad environment.  Concur 100%.  You ever find that often times
the products are already bought before your input is requested?



I dunno if I have bigger problems with cisco being in the software space or
their horrible turnout of applications after they've acquired them.  Unity,
call manager, etc... one uses ad... one uses dirsync in a proprietary ldap
server... odd stuff like that.  Not to mention, it took a nda and massive
levels of coercion to get cisco to fess up to what the exact permissions
were that are required in order for unity to work successfully.  That was a
good month long ordeal.  Unfortunately nda - so I can't really speak or blog
on the exact stuff to correct it.  Their reasoning?  Most admins have no
idea how to configure the ACLs properly to support their application.  I
digress.



:m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com <http://marcusoh.blogspot.com/>

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 7:57 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates



The price tag will definitely drop as soon as Microsoft releases Exchange 12
with UM built in. But, it's not THAT expensive today, and there are some
great business pluses to it. We had no problems showing ROI on VOIP or UM.



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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 6:14 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

It's a feature with lots of "gee whiz!" appeal, but once people see the
price tag, the response is usually "ouch!"



We are still waiting for the "year of UM". I'm betting on 2007. :-)



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP]
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 6:49 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

I think this is definitely a case where Moore's Law hasn't been applicable.
It's funny how little this story has changed since I saw the first unified
messaging demos (then by Octel) about ten years ago.

Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!(tm)





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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 1:49 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

Entirely your option. :) Windows 3.11 and Windows NT are really not the same
product.



Note I am not saying I won't use cisco routers because they sucked 12 years
ago. As someone else pointed out, software isn't cisco's ball of wax. There
is obviously a little bit of a scary point there when you consider though
that the IOS is software...



Also as you mentioned, it wasn't created or even modified much by cisco. So
I don't expect it is much different now than what I saw.



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:37 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

And I will never run Windows because 3.11 just wasn't that great at
networking. ;-)



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:42 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

Being the best available doesn't make something good and doesn't need a lot
of work. :o)



It just means it is better than the other sucky alternatives.



I haven't seen unity in years but when I last saw it, it had me swearing
about how bad it was. I seem to recall saying something along the lines of
that will never be in any AD I ever manage.









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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:04 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

Not sure why you don't like Unity, it's the best unified messaging app there
is right now. Actually has been for over 5 years. I believe that the reason
it;s as good as it is, is that it was not created or even modified much by
Cisco, they simply bought a really good product and left it be for the most
part.

As for the schema updates, it didn't work. We made the registry change and
it did work. I don't see how that would be tied to the app as no changes
were made there. But who knows.



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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 7:27 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

Hmmm.  I need to think about that again.  I think I only saw this behavior
in the lab where all the servers were upgraded instead of wipe and replace.
In production, we upgraded initially then did a replacement effort later.



More to the point, UGH Cisco Unity... I wish to Christ they'd stick to
hardware and stop venturing into software...

:m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com <http://marcusoh.blogspot.com/>

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:03 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates



Was it maybe the app itself disallowing the update? Did you try to just
modify the schema to see if it would work? Say change the rangeupper of cn
or something like that and then change it back. Something innocuous.



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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 5:17 PM
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Yep, same here.  I think upgraded scenarios have this.



:m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com <http://marcusoh.blogspot.com/>

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:57 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates



Upgraded.



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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:38 AM
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Upgraded to 2003 or fresh install?



:m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com <http://marcusoh.blogspot.com/>

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:12 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates



I just did this last week to install Cisco Unity and I still had to enable
schema updates in Windows 2003 even though the user was in Schema Admins. I
was under the same impression as Travis, but after enabling updating in the
registry it worked fine.



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:03 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

Did you work this out Travis?



If not, I would recommend pulling up the sysinternal registry and file
monitors as well as tracing the AD  calls.



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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:59 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

Hi,

I am having some problems updating the schema for Avaya Unified Messaging.
It is my thinking that in Windows 2003 the schema is already enabled for
updates as long as you are in the Schema Admins group. In Windows 2000 you
had to enable the Schema to be updated. Am I correct or misguided?

Thanks!


Travis Abrams



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