Why? Why not?

Okay, so here’s some common issues with BES and the fixes:

• Emails not being received on the device: This is the catch-all error. Things to check are: BES Admin permissions on Exchange, mapi32.dll and cdo.dll versions.
• Calendar appointments being received as emails: Almost certainly a CDO mismatch. Check the CDO versions.
• Calendar appointments not arriving: Could be to do with an obscure property of the AD user called homeMTA. If you are getting MAPI_E_NETWORK_ERROR errors in the MATG log, check this link: MAPI_E_NETWORK_ERROR

So, I borrowed Shay’s axe from Mal last night for some shredding action at Marc’s place. I’m always surprised by how much having other people watching you makes you focus in that game. Oh, and a pro face off against a similar-level of skill player = AWE. SOME.

I learned a valuable lesson on configuring routers yesterday: Always assume it’s not going to work, no matter how much preparation you do. All you can do is mitigate the amount of time it takes you to figure out the inevitable problems by having as much reference material as possible easy to hand.

I didn’t have any reference material yesterday, so it took me six hours to find the two commands I needed to enter. I was tired.

Forgive me my little Darth Vader moment there – but I seem to have managed to kill the 40G HD in my file server, which means I’ve lost my file archive – which among other things had patches and savegames dating back to ‘96 or so, and my graphics archive, which was about 3G of images, including all the photoshop work I’ve ever done. And I lost my whole collection of definitely-legally-obtained videos too, aside from what’s on my xbox.

On the plus side, it looks likely that I may have enough money soon to be able to buy a new PC, which means that my current PC can be retired to file server, and I’ll be making sure I have a DVD burner this time.