[mavsx]

Originally Posted by stuwhite

I'm not going into the details coz DST has, quite frankly, made me wonder why I don't work in Maccie D's but I just wanna say that all is good and I couldn't have done it without you guys. I will be starting a thread when I remember to make sure everyone gets props but after 3 weeks of doing nothing but this (and trust me, I really have better things to do!), the prep work paid off and users have had it fairly easy.

Thanks again guys, buy yourselves at least one beer (but Coke for Darth!)

Micky D's,? haha..i hate mcdonalds

[totalstu]

I only have 49 users. Everything went pretty well, thanks in no small part to this site and you fine people.

I ran into a few problems with devices trying to reactivate themselves. That was easily fixed on the device by clicking Enterprise Activation and the cancelling. For a few devices the user needed to check in options to see the dst 2007 entry and click it to see if it was applied or if the device needed rebooting. I guess that is because they neglected to reboot when prompted. A few claim their contacts no longer sync so I fixed that with a reactivation.

All in all not too bad, but I never want to go through that again.

[stuwhite]

Originally Posted by DarthBBerry

I like the taste of beer, just not the effects. O'Douls is really good.
And you get to buy the first round!

<g> Being a Brit, I struggle with US beer but I usually find somewhere selling something I can drink I will trust your judgement on that one Darth! If I get the approval, you know I am buying the first round dude (then dropping from jetlag).

[stuwhite]

Originally Posted by mavsx

Micky D's,? haha..i hate mcdonalds

Luckily I am a veggie and never have to step foot through the door. I have to say though, those guys who make the shakes don't have to deal with friggin DST changes, it's just a thought.......

[DarthBBerry]

Originally Posted by stuwhite

Luckily I am a veggie and never have to step foot through the door. I have to say though, those guys who make the shakes don't have to deal with friggin DST changes, it's just a thought.......

Maybe those McD guys refer to themselves as Fretin Engineers (lets see how many people pick up the double meaning in THAT phrase! Not the literal meaning, but what it could mean... )

[Gotrek]

We rolled to 2500 userss over 4 servers with a 90% success rate. The users who didn't get it were not enterprise activated and we are fixing them one by one (firmware updates)

However for us the DST patch was not successful. During test cases our Appointements created from the BB are out 1 hour in outlook But seem to fix themselves 24 hours later. I'm not sure how the patch works but this is strange behaviour. We're still teting to see what is going on.

Here are our latest test results and it's affecting all the servers

Patched workstation(os), patched blackberry(firmware,dst2007 patch), Patched Servers(CDO, Exchange, OS on both,, Matching timezones on )servers and clients

Meetings previously created on workstation now ok on both
Meetings previously created on bb that were ok on both
Meeting created on workstation displays correctly on blackberry
Meeting created on blackberry displays 1 hour late on workstation (seem to autofix in 24 hours)

[stuwhite]

Originally Posted by DarthBBerry

Maybe those McD guys refer to themselves as Fretin Engineers (lets see how many people pick up the double meaning in THAT phrase! Not the literal meaning, but what it could mean... )

You are getting more obscure by the day Darth, even Wikipedia struggles with that one. Now I know why you don't drink; you don't need to :->

[Sagz]

Our roll out went pretty good. 98% (less than 70 bbs not patched) across 6 BES boxes patched the others are in the category of blackberries not on and so forth. Overall I think we had a 97% success rate on the client patching for notes (OS, Calendar, so forth), across about 65K+ mail accounts.

The good thing from all this is I finally got to show the functionality of MDS pushing in a production environment to upper management. Im starting to fall in love with the boxtone utility, not that I dont mind writing specialized SQL queries, but it does make life easier.

[DarthBBerry]

Originally Posted by stuwhite

You are getting more obscure by the day Darth, even Wikipedia struggles with that one. Now I know why you don't drink; you don't need to :->

Fretin Engineers.
Fretin is the French word for "fry".
Fretin in French actually means a swarm of young, especially of fish. But translated Fretin is the word fry.
Hence, French Fry Engineers.

[stuwhite]

Originally Posted by DarthBBerry

Fretin Engineers.
Fretin is the French word for "fry".
Fretin in French actually means a swarm of young, especially of fish. But translated Fretin is the word fry.
Hence, French Fry Engineers.

OMG. Even after all these years working for and with Americans, your language-melting skills still amaze me

[Gotrek]

Originally Posted by stuwhite

OMG. Even after all these years working for and with Americans, your language-melting skills still amaze me

I'm french and I didn't even know Fretin was Fry (as in baby fish)

It's from the old french "Fraindre" which comes from Latin "Frangere" which means to Break which will cause small particles called Fret in french (debris in english I guess)

Bam! good lesson for the day!

[stuwhite]

Originally Posted by Gotrek

I'm french and I didn't even know Fretin was Fry (as in baby fish)

It's from the old french "Fraindre" which comes from Latin "Frangere" which means to Break which will cause small particles called Fret in french (debris in english I guess)

Bam! good lesson for the day!

And I thought I knew enough French

[DarthBBerry]

Originally Posted by stuwhite

OMG. Even after all these years working for and with Americans, your language-melting skills still amaze me

Effortless eloquence and articulation of confabulation.

[stuwhite]

Originally Posted by DarthBBerry

Effortless eloquence and articulation of confabulation.

Stop it, some of us have been here all day and want to go home

l8r dudes.

[mmayben263]

Not to rain on the parade, but we have had success with patching and such, but the problem of the appointments being an hour off when created on the device, is what we are facing.

Maybe I will wait 24 hours and see if they 'correct' themselves.

[stuwhite]

Originally Posted by mmayben263

Not to rain on the parade, but we have had success with patching and such, but the problem of the appointments being an hour off when created on the device, is what we are facing.

Maybe I will wait 24 hours and see if they 'correct' themselves.

This is one for the DST Upgrade thread really but have you done every other bit (server OS, d/top OS, cal re-base, CDO patch)?

[mmayben263]

Got an answer from another thread. It was the cdo.dll update on the BES servers. Thanks anyway.

[mavsx]

jackpot.

[neasej]

Did anyone have an issues with the Desktop manager crashing during Synchronization after the DST update?

It apparently synchronizes the data but at the end it pops up a program has ended unexpectedly, do you want to send the information to microsoft.

Any thoughts?

[ladydi]

I had almost no problems. Only 22 users. I tested tho OTA push on my server at home and it worked great. I pushed it out to our users two weeks before before DST and I only had to have a few of them manually reboot (they claim they weren't prompted) I did have the cdo.dll issue - minor oversight when the BES and Exch were updated, but BBforums helped me find the answer quick and luckily I was the one that noticed the issue, not my users. Overall it was easy as pie and I haven't had any complaints. The PPC's on the other hand, well that's a whole different story...one without a happy ending.