The “Louisiana Technology Council” held a press conference today regarding the ongoing attempts to recover Mayor Nagin’s email and calendar information. I just got back from the press conference, but am somewhat disappointed in its content. Some information can be found in these articles:

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/technology_group_hired_to_do_f.html

http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl063009cbltc.229efbfe.html

I’m waiting for the broadcast tonight to review what was said. The meat of the press conference boiled down to a scenario where an Exchange 2003 mail server experienced a significant failure in 2008, the failure was not specified, prompting the city’s IT department to accelerate a planned migration of the mailstore to a new Exchange 2003 server. The old mail server was purged of 22 GB of data with a post-purge store size of 60+ GB at or around May 5th which the individuals associated with the LTC recovery effort described as suspiciously shortly after a conference call about the recovery effort.

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