Exchange Server Exploded

Just a quick notice for customers, suppliers and colleagues.

Our office Exchange 2003 server exploded around one hour ago. There was a loud pop and the room filled with light grey smoke. I’m working like the clappers to replace the hardware and restore from a backup image. The power supply unit was 7 years old, which isn’t bad going! (I’m planning to implement a plan of replacing perfectly functional hardware every now and again).

I might even replace it with a new Exchange 2007 server. Watch this space. I will be making a blog post about disaster recovery soon.

What a day! Super-car driving and Super-phone integration.

It’s been a busy day today. Today, I was at the iT Showcase Live event at Mercedes-Benz World, Brooklands. It was fairly quiet for an exhibition, although the exhibitors didn’t give much away, Mercedes did - running rides of their AMG performance vehicles all day long. I managed to get a free pass and a spine-tingling face-breaking trip in a lovely new supercharged 500bhp CLS 63 AMG. When I finally got home, news was breaking that Apple had licensed the Activesync technology from Microsoft for use in their iPhone. This means a great deal for the IT industry, and I shall explain later. First however, the car.. Read more