Warning: Rant content

So the talk of Lefthand math ties nicely into my topic for today. And yes, I’m going to rant. A number of years ago, we bought a SAN solution from Lefthand networks. It performed well. We were able to house Exchange and some file server stuff on it and it was just fine. We started down the path of virtualizing servers. We bought three more of the modules. At that point, they had discontinued the 150 model that we were used to. We smarted a bit from that, since we had negotiated future pricing on those units but we went ahead and bought 3 160 models.

I had the opportunity to write a quick script to query Active Directory for accounts that were forwarded and store those forwarded email addresses in a MySQL database to run a couple of reports against. This was pretty fun for me. I’ve attached the C# source code. I used the MySQL db driver located here.