{"id":101,"date":"2016-08-25T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/?p=101"},"modified":"2016-09-20T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:42:46","slug":"migrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/2016\/08\/25\/migrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, our infrastructure and communications teams just took us through a migration of our email system.<\/p>\n<p>They did a fine job, but there were some bumps in the road. Most of the time, when you migrate email servers, it&#8217;s not too big of a deal; you&#8217;re in control of the machines, and you&#8217;re going to have fallovers and failsafes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However, note that from a user&#8217;s perspective, changing MX records and the intricacies of the DNS system are deep fu. So just try to make those changes on Sunday at 1 a.m. Trust me, it&#8217;s best that this is happening while everyone is sleeping, because the fewer conversations you have to have about DNS propagation &amp; replication, the happier you will be.<\/p>\n<p>There are other lessons that we learned, but that is the most important one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, our infrastructure and communications teams just took us through a migration of our email system. They did a fine job, but there were some bumps in the road. Most of the time, when you migrate email servers, it&#8217;s not too big of a deal; you&#8217;re in control of the machines, and you&#8217;re going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/sobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}