Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:55 PM
by
rclaus
It is now 5:55:55 on 5/5/5
I had to post this one. I love numbers and this was too good to pass up.
5:55:55 PM on the 5th day of the 5th month of the 5th year of 2000. Not bad.
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What was I doing today? Nope - I wasn't helping a customer migrate from Exchange 5.5.
Strangely enough I have been working a LOT with the Canadian Exchange PM (Hilary Wittmann) on some initiatives called "CookingSchools". It's a great concept - Have three presentations to a group of customers who are facing Exchange migrations.
- A MS person (me) who talks about all the benefits, functionality, mobility, security and overall "WOW" of the Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 platform.
- A Systems Integration partner (In no specific order: Legendcorp, Metaphore, Dell, HP and Compugen) who have significant experience working on Exchange Migrations to talk about their approach and best practices to make a migration Successful.
- A migration software company (Quest Software) who makes tools to both report, diagnose and migrate the customer from old to new.
Put us all together in the room and include a personalized whiteboarding session to talk about specific customer pains. You get one real cool day of migration information for the customers. I love seeing the lightbulb go on throughout the day for the customers. I love to see the excitement for the new tools and features in Exchange 2003. I've had a lot of fun helping this process out.
Oh yeah - Great value as well - did I mention it was free?