Work is fun... not.

I hate Microsoft. Know why? Because, in their infinite wisdom, Exchange isn't really scriptable. This caused me to take over SIX AND A HALF HOURS doing something that should have taken two. Signal's migrating to a new forest and domain, for documentation / configuration cleanliness reasons. Whole new slate. I've moved over the other servers, but the Exchange can't just move over (because of IDs not matching). Okay, I can understand that. But, if they had just made it so that I could change those IDs myself, or copy the contents via a path, I could have made a small script/program to do that. There's only six, count them, SIX employees here. A couple of extra mailboxes, and that's it. Way too much .... time wasted while I copy contents around using our backup program (which, BTW, kills the job if there's an error in restoring the mailbox, THANKS for not making a "continue anyways" option CA!!) and PST files in one case (because a user had imported a PDF directly into their mailbox as an object, not as a message or anything, but directly in the folder. Which kills ArcServe and it's MAPI doohickey. Argh. Now I'm fighting with the fact that Windows 2003 can only take driver FLOPPIES. This is 2003 fer goodnesssakes, and it can't read a CD for drivers! WTF?! If Vista doesn't correct this, it will be huge. None of my new servers have floppy drives, so my workaround is such: Create a RAID array on the adaptec card with both drives. Remove a drive and the card, put one drive back on the builtin port, install Windows 2003, put RAID card back in, load drivers, use Disk Management to create a software-raid mirror on both "drives", then move the drive that's currently on the builtin back to the RAID, have it "repair" the mirror, then boot off of the RAID. Too much **** work. I'm not going to be able to leave until 3am, if I'm lucky. I was hoping to be out of here by midnight, maybe 1am. I am pissed. And hungry. And my wife, is hopefully sleeping finally. Oh, and the wireless router, which for me would be a nice "oh, I get to set this up today" sort of a balancer for the "I have to work late" thing, was delayed by UPS. Their website finally decided around 10pm that it wasn't going to be delivered today. Well DUH. And of course next week I've got plenty to do, and Monday will be hell with everyone coming in and wanting to get on and *hopefully* I'm able to get everyone's setup done and all I'll have to do is give people their passwords and have them login. We'll see.