Last week I decided that in my efforts to start moving forward with my hosting again I needed to improve some of my services. The two things that have been the biggest complaints from my clients have been SPAM and webmail. I was using MailEnable Standard but and older version that did not include webmail so I was using Horde for that. The new version of MailEnable offered webmail, so I did an upgrade. All went extremely well and the new webmail was great. I only had one little issue with it but that was because I moved the webmail app from one website in IIS that it had configured to my current webmail website which had different permissions. After getting that all working, it looked great. However the next morning, a client calls and says they don't have their contacts anymore nor their calendar. I hadn't even noticed that Horde had a calendar in it. I was like ok, I'll upgrade to the Professional version of MailEnable since it supported the calendar and after looking at it, also had a better spam blocking support for both me, as the administrator, and the end user. After I got that installed, my client who had the problem called me back and said that it looked great but all their contacts and events on the calendar were gone. I had thought all this was kept in MailEnable but I guess Horde has it's own database for certain things as well. Obviously I'm not extremely familiar with Horde. So, I spent a good 3-4 hours trying to get Horde working again so that we could pull those things off. After trying all kinds of things, I finally got it working again. I logged into their account and was able to export their events and contacts. The new MailEnable webmail was able to import the contacts with no problems at all, but the Calendar doesn't have any kind of import feature.
While I had all this going on with my personal business, I was helping my dad move to a new computer at the church. That wasn't that big of deal really, it was just something else to do. Then this week at work as been a pain too. We've had little issues with several things. One of our server's OS's got corrupt somehow so I was up there until 8 and still was unable to fix it. So that's going to be a reload. Thankfully, everything running on it is still working, so it's not an emergency to get it reloaded. We had some of our automated student account programs not functioning as intended due to school being out that we are having to address in an emergency fashion, which I don't like. I don't mind having to revamp stuff or work on different projects in general, but I hate it when it's in an emergency scenario.
Oh well, such is life being in technology.