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Over the past month I have installed Sharepoint 3.0 / 2007 design, SQL Server Pro, Dynamincs CRM 3.0, and Exchange 2003.  The plan is to have a fantastic Utopian sandbox with which to allow our staff to create the ultimate socially generated Intranet site. Just the thought of it gives me a surge in my heart and a gleam in my eye.  Oh the things we'll be able to do!!!

But, my dreams of social media paradise have been dashed, like so many prince ruperts drops, by the hidden evil that calls itself the oh-so-innocent-sounding name of "Microsoft Wizards".  These wizards purport to automate a few (far too few...) of those many tasks required to set up complex back-end systems. Instead of lending a helping hand though they instead concoct a cloak of false security, which quickly falls away when you try to do anything usefull.

None of them work right on upgrades, none of them seem to get IIS settings correct, and each of them, when combined, leads to litterally a hundred hours of diagnostics.  Even Exchange 2003, which I have installed many times before without incident, failed to work correctly after getting a taste of some evil CRM wizard action.

I feel better now, having vented to you, my loyal readers reader. Some of the taint has washed off my soul.

Now, back to running IIS diagnostics...the promised land is still far out of sight...