Smith's Statements on Stuff

As part of my current project to upgrade an organisation from 6.5 to 8.0.2, we have an issue where users have multiple local archives with editor access and enforce consistent ACLs set. We don't know what they might have called the files, and have no realistic way to get them onto a server where we could crack them open and then upgrade them.

Our solution is to write a small app that will do the following:

• prompt the user to pick his archives from a list of the dbs on the client.
• create a local group that matches an admin group that exists in all mail databases.
• add a new ID - "archive admin" to that group. This ID will have no password set and have no permissions or group memberships on servers.
• Switch the client to this ID
• now we have manager access to the archive/s we can upgrade the design of them to mail8.ntf
• finally - switch the user back to their own ID.

It can therefore be a self service solution - if users have local archives they just open the app ( we will send them a link, we're nice like that - suppose we could add a bookmark via policies) and they manage the upgrade of their archives themselves.

Just need to test it now

Setting up an 8.0.2 messaging pilot and RSS feeds weren't working - when you tried to add on you get a "server returned error :0" style message.
The customer has a web proxy so added the FQDN of the proxy server to the location document (basic tab > click the beanie hat!), still didn't work.
Sulked a bit - read lots of forum entries and technotes that said use FQDN, felt rebellious, changed the FQDN to IP Address of the proxy and hey presto - we have RSS feeds! (And yes, the machine could resolve and ping the proxy's FQDN!).

Why can't the proxy settings be detected from the O/S? I don't have to use proxy settings in the embedded browser to view web pages, is it too much to ask for some consistency?

Grrrr.