Jake Kappus.comCertified Geek, Dad, MMA fan, and ocassional Pro Wrestler

I’m going to be sitting the Exchange 2010 exams in the next week or so.  I’m feeling pretty good after taking the practice tests.  Wish me luck!

Wow…I just remembered that I promised to post more from TechEd.  Well, as you can see, my only post was from somewhere on Bourbon Street and that’s pretty much all I remember.  OK, maybe not.  I swear I did make it to every session on my list.    I guess life got in the way that week, but for the better.  Seems that Melissa and I needed that week in New Orleans much worse than we thought.  It’s amazing that too much alcohol, Bourbon Street debauchery and honesty can actually repair a relationship in some cases.

Seems like my Cisco days are just about over.  I can be a Microsoft geek again soon. 

I’ve installed FCS before and it was a major pain in the ass.  The pre-reqs weren’t documented well and it took a while to get SQL to play nice and eventually get Forefront installed.  I really just attributed it to my own lack of experience with it.

I’m back installing Forefront again and I’m going to say it again.  It’s a pain in the ass to install.  Great anti-virus product on the front end, but damn it makes you want to throw your laptop across the room and find a sledgehammer to smash the server into pieces ala the Office Space printer on the backend.  First I ran into the msiexec.exe access is denied error which was apparently fixed by installing the .NET 1.1 Framework.  Really?  The documentation calls for .NET 2.0 or higher.   Two days later after fighting through one KBXXXX article after another, it’s installed.

Seriously, if you want people to buy this…make the install a little bit easier.  If Symantec can do it, why can’t you, Microsoft?