Interesting Year-End Changes
There seems to always be something waiting in the wings. For the last few days I've been noticing a problem with one of my apps and while I was confident I hadn't made any changes, it was possible that it was the exchanges, or the software that I use to pseudo-normalize the data from the exchanges. It's only happened in 2008, so I sent an email to my contact in the group who maintains the code I use and asked him if anything changed.
Interestingly enough, things had. But he didn't find them right away. Eventually, he did see that the new backup policy they implemented in 2008 wasn't properly returning the configurations for the users. This was the source of the problems I'd been seeing.
Great that he found the problem and fixed it, but I'm wondering how many other users of this code were getting bad results and just not knowing about it. It's always important to watch what you're running.