Today I had the chance to get back to some code for CreateFolder which creates a public folder within our Exchange 2007 environment support by Microsoft’s Hosted Messaging and Collaboration frame work. I’ve been highly critical of Microsoft’s code before, and today has taken that to a new level.

Here is what I’m dealing with. First, let’s go to the documentation on TechNet:

Pretty clear that we have a few required parameters and a few optional ones to set some quotas. These optional parameters are what will soon drive me to uncontrollable rage.

Hardware issues have forced a lack of blog updates this week. look for a recap next week when I have a chance to decompress.

Ah yeah, its finally here! Next week is the infamous VMworld conference in Las Vegas. Couldn’t come at a better time as we’re knee deep in vCloud at work and very excited to get our hands on the new bits coming out of VMware. Looking forward to a great conference and hopefully I’ll have some time to post some content of things we’re seeing. If not a blog post, definitely some tweets (@usrlocal for those that don’t follow me).

Today marked the first time that I had to attend a live meeting after I recently upgraded my primary workstation to OSX Lion. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the smoothest experience.

Typically, Safari renders these meetings the best so it is my go to browser for meetings. Unfortunately, I would get the prompt for trusting the java app and a window would load with nothing happening. Same with Chrome. Firefox actually rendered the window with a Java loading icon spinning for all its worth, but never actually loading the meeting.

I have a simple formula for how I vote. For each political call I get, that candidate gets a negative point added to their name. Before I go into the voting booth, I figure out who has the highest score. Most candidates are tied at zero. Unfortunately for Ron Paul, he’s sitting at -2 and its EARLY in the campaign.

I’m thinking about expanding my voting tally to include commercials and emails. But that might be too hard to track.