Not in my job description

Extra-special task for the day: try to become an amateur Microsoft Exchange administrator. See, we just got a new secretary, but the new secretary needs access to the old secretary's mail to finish up things that didn't get done. I did the dance of spinning blades necessary to get both Unix and Windows accounts created and working usefully. But then...Outlook? Huh? I managed to figure out that you need to be logged in on the Exchange server itself to do anything, and figured out how to get a listing of the mailboxes, but there was nothing obvious that would allow me to create a mailbox (and hence be able to log in, since heaven forbid that Exchange use the same Active Directory tree as everything else) or give someone access to someone else's mailbox. It's not so much that Windows' tools are particularly bizarre as that, in most cases, you need to find the right tool on the right machine, where on Unix most problems can be solved with strategic use of cat, more, and vi/ed.

Add that to latent stress from fixing undergrads' problems, and, well, work isn't the most fun thing in the world right now.