Saturday, May 16, 2015

Resurection - hopefuly

I developed a small Transport Sink/Agent for Microsoft Exchnage Servers (to be precise for versions 2003, 2007 and 2010). This agent was acting as a free Antivirus solution, what not really existed.
I'm not an Antivirus expert, so I used the ClamAV as the engine behind it. This was 4-5 years ago.

The life changes. Mine totally. At the times of the development I was a System Administrator/IT Manager of a respectable local holding company. On the Sysadmin side I was specialized to Microsoft Exchange, holding MCITP certification, and MVP award.
This times gone. In the mean time I was consultant, chief editor of online media, entrepreneur.
Today I'm full time working as Sysadmin/DevOps, at an international company providing machine learning and computer vision based marketing technologies from the cloud. Administering (sometimes developing on) wide range of technologies (Amazon AWS, Office 365, federated identity, Active Directory, Dynamics CRM, SQL Server, Power BI, etc.). In addition to this, in my spare time I went back to my old love: Electronics, and acting as a Business Angel for small technology Startups.

Back to ClamAgent.
I totally abandoned this project for years. Somewhere in time also the web site/blog of it also broke done (Lately discovered half failed DNN upgrade and hardware failure later).
The thing left of it are:
  • A Facebook page
  • A virtual image of the half broken web CMS
  • The original source codes almost intact (may some Visual Studio solution upgrade happened with it)
But as I see on the Facebook page, there still some interest in this project. I think the hole where this thing fits in, still there.
Now, I try to resurrect this project. I don't promise, that I can put to much effort into it, because of my other duties mentioned above.
The following things happened so far:
  • Started this blog
  • Redirected the www.clamagent.org to this blog
  • Published the original unmodified source code on the Github (the links can be seen on the right side panel)
Last but not least. This is also a "call to arms" message. If anybody have knowledge (.Net programming, Exchange knowledge) and willing to help in this project, welcome! I would be happy to see if this project get back to live.