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Kahren Allakhverdyan, Software Development Engineer in Test.

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Hello everyone.

I am Kahren Allakhverdyan and I am in charge of Software Testing on Todd Wanke's team. I joined Microsoft eight years ago and have been with the Exchange team since. During this time I have been working on almost all messaging migration/coexistence products/technologies, shipped with versions of Exchange Server from 5.5 to Exchange 2003. I remember back during the development of Exchange 5.5 when I worked on the migration from cc:Mail GroupWise, Notes 3.3 and, my favorite, LDAP/IMAP-the first product in which I was the lead tester. Later I worked on the applications for cross-forest migration and coexistence between Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003. My last assignment before joining Todd's team was a cross-forest and intra-forest accounts/mailbox transition to the new Exchange Server, currently scheduled for release at the end of 2006. Within nine tedious months, our test team grew from one person to a total of four. During this short time we released a set of Directory/Messaging migration tools (at the end of 2005) along with the recent launch of the Application Analyzer for Lotus Domino 2006. Currently, most of our team is working on the Microsoft Data Migrator for Lotus Domino 2006. This tool will be able to migrate data from the Notes Applications on the Domino server to Microsoft WSS technology.

Being last to handle and complete the product, prior to releasing to the customer, our test team's mission is to assure that the applications and messaging products are bug free, reliable, scalable, secure and truly world class products.

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    March 10, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2006
    Eric,
    >The official path to report bugs/issues is through Product Support

    Now wait a minute. Nor me neither Paul Moone is a customer for this product. Paul has reviewed your product. If a motor journalist test drives a new car and it goes belly up in the first curve, you do not tell him to report his findings through customer support, do you?

    Yes I have asked several times. That is because you have have not given any straight answers. But that is an answer in it own respect. Thank you for that.

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2006
    <Patrix>

    OK, sorry that the answers do not seem straight, but not sure how more direct I can be.

    A> Support :  As normal we provide support through product support (OR) as stated we also take feedback through comments here since we (the product group) is active here. (Makes sense, is standard, plus allows for non-customers to comment on issues.)

    B> Issues posted by Paul : We are investigating what he saw right now. (Specifically looking at the activity report that he saw a problem with.) I will not speculate on his finding until we understand/have a repro and know what the issue is but obviously what he saw was incorrect.  Once we have investigated the problem and have more information we can comment more and will release a fix as needed.

    C> Other comments about usage of AA : We are already outlining the usage of the AA in the active blogs.  If there is a specific question about the usage, please comment.

    D> Monitoring/commenting on other blogs : My time is spent primarily here.  I will monitor other blogs and might comment there if I have time.  If someone has a problem and would like us to know then can comment here, but (as with Paul's blog) we will also be pro-active as possible in resolving issues that are blogged elsewhere.  (Using the auto example, a car maker does read reviews and looks at his product to see if they can improve, as we do.  In addition any problem directly reported by a customer the auto maker will take immediate action, as will we with comments here.)  Anyway I am here to build products, fix problems and I will make comments as such.  My focus is not to get into blog debates (nor do I really have time to), just to take any feedback and consider if there are fixes or ways we can improve our products.  My comments will remain focused on that.

    Erik

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    March 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2006
    Paul;

     Thanks for the comment !  (and the feedback on the tool)  We are investigating the ussage report and I will contact you if we can't get a good repro.

    Erik