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Talking Exchange 2007 SP1...

We're wrapping up our Beta of Exchange 2007 SP1 (to be released through TechNet plus this April), and as always we wanted to discuss it publicly here first. We are targeting final release with Longhorn Server 2nd half of this year.

Our work in this service pack is purely in response to your feedback on earlier releases of Exchange 2007. A partial list of what you'll find included in this SP is:

Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)

Such a great feature obviously needed its own name!

With Exchange 2007, we introduced Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) for replication of data between 2 servers within a cluster.  With SCR, data can be replicated on a per-storage group basis to standby servers or clusters.  The SCR target, whether a single mailbox server or a cluster, can be placed inside the primary datacenter or in a remote location, ready to be manually activated if the primary server or datacenter fails.

OWA

SP1 will fill in the feature holes that we just didn't have time to complete by RTM:

  • Personal distribution lists
  • S/MIME
  • Rules
  • Monthly calendar view
  • Deleted items recovery
  • Public folder access

OWA 2007 SP1 spell checking will add support for:

  • Arabic
  • Korean

OWA 2007 SP1 will add support for viewing Office 2007 file formats as HTML.

Exchange Management Console

SP1 will fill in the GUI holes that we just didn't have time to complete by RTM, including:

  • Public folder configuration
  • POP and IMAP configuration
  • SendAs permission configuration
  • Delegation wizard scenarios

Web Services

New web service coverage will include:

  • Public folder access 
  • Delegate management
  • Folder permission management

IPv6

On Longhorn Server, we will support Exchange 2007 on native IPv6 networks.

Move Mailbox

This vital tool administrator tool has been beefed up to include import and export to a .pst

Over the next few months, people throughout the team will be posting about their SP1 work. Your feedback means everything to us.

Thank you for choosing Exchange,

- Terry

Published Friday, February 23, 2007 11:07 AM by Exchange
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Comments

 

Pablo said:

Will the Move Mailbox allow me to get past the 2Gb limit on PSTs?
February 23, 2007 2:34 PM
 

Anderson Patricio Blog » Blog Archive » Talking about Exchange Server 2007 said:

PingBack from http://blogs.msexchange.org/patricio/2007/02/23/talking-about-exchange-server-2007/
February 23, 2007 2:39 PM
 

Anderson Patricio .:. Get-news Exchange Blog said:

There are a lot of new features in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 such as SCR (Standby Cluster Replication),
February 23, 2007 2:40 PM
 

Nick Smith said:

Will the feature enhancements for OWA be included in the OWA light interface?  The biggest complaint from our OWA light users is only having a single day calendar view.
February 23, 2007 3:04 PM
 

Exchange said:

Pablo,

Yes it will :)
February 23, 2007 3:26 PM
 

Geeking Microsoft said:

The You Had Me at EHLO blog is dishing the scoop on the forthcoming service pack 1. Look for an April
February 23, 2007 3:40 PM
 

Pete K. said:

Well done!   Looking forward to other improvments that were not available with Exchange 2007 RTM.
February 23, 2007 3:43 PM
 

John C. Welch said:

Will you be able to access Exchange 2007 public folders via OWA with SP1?
February 23, 2007 5:03 PM
 

Blog de Pablo Vernocchi » Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 said:

PingBack from http://www.itpros.com.ar/blog/exchange-server-2007-service-pack-1
February 23, 2007 5:20 PM
 

Eric C said:

 I didn't see any mention of tighter Active Directory intergration, specifically mailbox provisioning from ADUC.  Any chance this will be made available with the release of Longhorn?
February 23, 2007 6:10 PM
 

Exchange said:

Nick, John, Eric,

As implied in the post, this is not the final list of features... however at this time we are not ready to talk about more. There is more. Give us a bit more time and we will start talking about it in greater detail.
February 23, 2007 6:17 PM
 

pesos said:

Great news guys.  I know that there are no plans to re-integrate exchange with ADUC per se, but I think the gist of Eric's post is important.  The "template-instance" option in the command line does not duplicate crucial AD attributes including but no limited to profile path, etc.  This in turn leads to a far more complicated user creation process than 2003 -- users have to be duplicated in ADUC, then their mailboxes have to be manually set up in exchange mgmt console, then ADSIedit has to be used to clean up the little things that ensue from the exchange attributes not being properly written due to timing issues.  None of this was a problem with the exch2003-aware ADUC.  Hope to hear more about your plans for tighter AD integration with longhorn AD tools!

thanks,
Wes
February 23, 2007 6:50 PM
 

hans said:

Have you some more securiyt futures.

I have a problem to send mails with attachement which should be secure but bothth side have no S-Mime
Can you make a workflow that we generate a download area an the othe user get the acces inforamtion. to up or download the files over https:
Also should it delete after a policie base time. Also wil it be nice if i can select some more users out of the directory which have acces to the this files are.

Thanks
HAns

February 23, 2007 6:53 PM
 

Evan said:

pesos - templateinstance only knows about the exchange object schema; the AD properties like profile path, etc are outside of the scope of Exchange, so there is no visibility into these objects from Exchange tools.

That said, the easy solution to this would be to use templateinstance to provision the base AD object + the Exchange templated-settings and then run behind this creation with some calls through the PowerShell ADSI provider to copy in the properties you care about from the same source object. Since the AD schema is extensible, there's no way to know the full set of what properties exist (or what properties must be kept unique during a clone). A manual properties-to-clone mapping in script is the most effective way to do this for the non-Exchange properties.

Evan
February 23, 2007 7:42 PM
 

Mark said:

I am interested in the SCR feature here. It sound like people that use products like Doubletake can use SCR instead. Does SCR have any type of monitor for automatic failover like IP pinging or more importantly services failing?
February 23, 2007 11:35 PM
 

Eric C said:

 I think the bigger picture here is that user account creation/mailbox creation needs to be a streamlined process, not a two step process.  There needs to be a synergy across all the platforms.  

Evan,

 At Exchange 2006 I heard that the reason Powershell was introduced was because large corporations requested a scriptable interface, is that true or was it always on the roadmap?
February 24, 2007 12:01 AM
 

Exchange-faq.dk - Din portal til Microsoft Exchange Server information said:

PingBack from http://www.exchange-faq.dk/weblog.php?id=P1448
February 24, 2007 2:36 AM
 

Henrik Walther Blog » Blog Archive » Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 Improvements said:

PingBack from http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2007/02/24/exchange-2007-service-pack-1-improvements/
February 24, 2007 2:43 AM
 

MiVanVelem - Karikat??ra, IT, h??tk??znapok » Exchange 2007 Sp1 said:

PingBack from http://mivanvelem.hu/2007/02/24/exchange-2007-sp1/
February 24, 2007 5:03 AM
 

John Westworth said:

Want to know what's going to be in Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2007? Then pop over to the Exchange teams
February 24, 2007 5:18 AM
 

Architel News, Alerts & Tips Blog :: Turn Architel On and Get Back to Work said:

PingBack from http://news.architel.com/2007/02/24/exchange-2007-sp1/
February 24, 2007 7:38 AM
 

Tech Presales News for Austrian Partners said:

Unter http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/02/23/435699.aspx gibt es eine schöne Beschreibung der Features
February 24, 2007 7:52 AM
 

Joel Stidley's Exchange and PowerShell Blog said:

Its a little ways off however the Exchange product team has released some details on what is planned
February 24, 2007 8:25 AM
 

Sunny Boy said:

Can OWA do PGP now??
February 24, 2007 10:02 AM
 

Sandor said:

Will the SCR functionality require the servers be on the same subnet?  This is a massive downside of CCR.  Stretching subnets across datacenters to get geo-clustering with CCR does not make network engineers happy.
February 24, 2007 11:42 AM
 

Todd said:

I have to agree with Sandor.... stretching subnets as a requirement for CCR was a killer for us.  Also, we really didn't want to have to cluster boxes to do replication so it sounds like SCR will be perfect (assuming it will work without stretched subnets).  There is a huge need for a product feature like this as the current environment (Doubletake, XOSoft), IMO, is not where it needs to be.

Thanks
February 24, 2007 12:10 PM
 

Le blog de Matthieu MARTINEAU said:

Le SP1 d'Exchange Server 2007 devrait voir le jour durant le second semestre 2007. Voici une liste des
February 24, 2007 1:26 PM
 

Sandor said:

Just to be clearer than my first comment and following on from what Todd said, I need to have near time replication across datacenters but am not that interested in clustering.  I hope SCR effectively competes with Doubletake features as I have the most interest in an all Microsoft solution (cuts cost and vendor complexity).
February 24, 2007 3:33 PM
 

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" said:

http://peeved.org/blog/2007/02/24/ Dude, you need comments on your blog because otherwise I end up using
February 24, 2007 5:59 PM
 

The Wow said:

The Exchange Team as made a post regarding plans for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. The first
February 24, 2007 11:47 PM
 

Taz said:

How about Public folder UI on OWA?
February 25, 2007 2:04 AM
 

Thomas Lee said:

Any chance for a) a better test phone for UM and b) one that works under Vista.

And while you're at it, how about updating the technet article to be  more accurate - the instructions as to how to set it up do not really work  if you follow them literally (what is 'exchange version number'??)
February 25, 2007 6:02 AM
 

Nathan's Exchange Blog said:

Hi, I haven't had a lot of time to blog recently what with getting a load of proposals done (mostly around...
February 25, 2007 6:44 AM
 

Blog de Jeanb said:

February 25, 2007 7:16 AM
 

Blog de Jeanb said:

February 25, 2007 7:17 AM
 

.:: Securnetwork.net Blog - Massimo Rabbi ::. » Probabile data per Exchange Server 2007 SP1 said:

PingBack from http://www.securnetwork.net/?p=244
February 25, 2007 8:15 AM
 

Microsoft News Tracker said:

Some Microsoft news items from last week that did not get a post of their own.
Microsoft competitor VMware is profiled in the NY Times. Uh-oh! Someone just said “Microsoft” and ”bundling.”
Wii outsold
February 25, 2007 11:31 AM
 

GavinGee's WebLog said:

Worth a read: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/02/23/435699.aspx
February 25, 2007 5:28 PM
 

Aaron Marks said:

Looking forward to the release.  Some suggestions

1.  Ability to edit all urls for Autodiscover in the MMC
2.  Importing from IMAP servers
3.  Certificate creation, import, and enable from the MMC
5.  Improved view of contacts in OWA
6.  Better documentation of some cmdlets when running a get-help

Thanks, can't wait for the final version of SP1!
February 25, 2007 5:39 PM
 

Oli said:

Whats about the Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2003 ???
Please released it soon !!!
February 26, 2007 3:26 AM
 

Fustraded Customer said:

Some of the updated show how wrong MS did the launch of Exchange 2007, again same history, becasue the final launch date pass over the technicals aspect, this kind of issue most be solved to increase Customer confidence with al new released
February 26, 2007 4:01 AM
 

Darren.E said:

I'm curious to learn more about SCR - as mentioned already it'll be a big attraction to the takeup of E2k7 - there's no more need for MSCS on the mailbox servers if this is used then?

My understanding was that CCR provided the possibility for inter-datacentre Exchange clusters through passive database seeding and log shipping. Are the main issues with this approach the subnet stretch and heartbeat latency (addressed by file share witness)?

I'm wondering if SCR uses the same seeding and log shipping/transport dumpster to keep the passive server ready for action. Can you give us any insight into how failovers are managed - is it now through the Powershell/Console now that Cluster Manager isn't used?

Superb blog BTW - All the best, Darren.
February 26, 2007 6:07 AM
 

Stefan said:

Does SCR require a Longhorn Server or does it run on Windows 2003 as well ?
February 26, 2007 6:09 AM
 

Darren.E said:

Good question Stefan - I also forgot to ask, does SCR require Exchange (or Windows) Enterprise edition or can we get away with Std?
February 26, 2007 6:43 AM
 

Aimless ramblings of an overworked Geek! said:

Ok, so as you may have figured I'm pretty passionate, nay - crazy, about exchange. And since starting to work with E12 its become worse! It seems I just cant get enough, the new feature set, scalability functionality, all get me really excited. It truly
February 26, 2007 8:04 AM
 

RaDians.com.ar » Exchange 2007 SP1… said:

PingBack from http://www.radians.com.ar/blog/?p=40
February 26, 2007 8:12 AM
 

Brettjo :: Microsoft Exchange Messaging said:

So I am little behind the times at the moment as I have just got back from New York so you will have
February 26, 2007 9:53 AM
 

jack said:

Hello!
will you fix the current SPN issue with cluster servers? connecting to them via NTLM is unacceptable at the moment..!
February 26, 2007 10:14 AM
 

Cluadmin.de Windows Cluster (B)Log » Blog Archive » Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication said:

PingBack from http://www.cluadmin.de/exchange-2007-cluster-continuous-replication-p32/
February 26, 2007 10:58 AM
 

Eileen Brown's WebLog said:

So we've been trying to keep this confidential for a while. unfortunately one of my colleagues in the
February 26, 2007 12:50 PM
 

Evan said:

Eric, you asked:

> At Exchange 2006 I heard that the reason Powershell was introduced was because large corporations requested a scriptable interface, is that true or was it always on the roadmap?

Don't have a lot of context for what you're asking, but it was definitely clear to us in the early usability planning for Exchange 2007 that many customers (both large and small) were unhappy with the bulk management capabilities and usability of the several programmatic interfaces through VBScript for E2k3. For E2k7 we settled pretty early on PowerShell and then did lots of usability verifications throughout the process to refine the design. Things like tab-completion of cmdlets and parameters, for instance, came to PowerShell directly as usability feedback from Exchange customers!
February 26, 2007 1:07 PM
 

Exchange said:

For all that have asked:

Yes indeed - PF access in OWA is making a comeback... I have just added this to the list of features in the original post...
February 26, 2007 3:49 PM
 

Cameron Frasnelly said:

Can you give us more information regarding SCR???  It sounds like the feature we need the most since we have to install all the roles onto a single server! Thanks!
February 26, 2007 5:58 PM
 

SayLeong said:

Will these SP1 features apply to both Standard and Enterprise edition? TIA.
February 26, 2007 8:17 PM
 

GUI Lover said:

Still want to see more GUIs in the Ex2k7 manager--Still rem that MS' apps been love/like by people just due to the nice GUI.

Anyway, for Ex2k7, the SCR will be good ONLY if it does not need Stretching subnet/expand vlan. We hope it did not so that we can really use this future instead of using the Double-T* or SAN.

February 26, 2007 10:08 PM
 

subject: exchange said:

After some speculation about Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2007, the Microsoft Exchange Team has
February 27, 2007 3:49 AM
 

Exchange 2007 SP1 info » D’ Technology Weblog — Technology, Blogging, Gadgets, Fashion, Life Style. said:

PingBack from http://www.ditii.com/blog/2007/02/27/exchange-2007-sp1-info/
February 27, 2007 9:08 AM
 

Eileen Brown's WebLog said:

Well, as I promised last week at the Roadshow in Nottingham , I said I'd blog about all of the links
February 27, 2007 10:48 AM
 

Darren.E said:

My understanding of SCR after talking with an MS Exchange tech today at Microsoft's UK HQ in Reading, is that it does still require clustering.

As it was exaplined to me, it effectively allows the active node to Seed and Log-Ship to a storage area at a seperate datacentre (this is done in addition to the seeding/logshipping being done by the passive node).

This offsite copy can then be accessed by a dedicated server at that site. My understanding is that the 'recovery' steps need to bring the offsite service online in the event of the datacentre being unavailable would be manual ones

Exchange 14 when it's released, will remove the need for MSCS to be used to cluster.

Hopefully I'm not speaking out of turn - All of the above are my views based on informal chats with Exchange contacts at MS, so please dont take it as gospel. If it turns out to be Mis-information because I haven't understood I apologise,  but hopefully it'll be of some benefit until more official info is available.
February 27, 2007 12:50 PM
 

Damien Caro's Blog said:

Le mythe des services packs n'apportant pas de nouvelles fonctionnalités est bel et bien mort ! En effet,
February 27, 2007 1:37 PM
 

Atul said:

Will the new features in OWA be supported by Windows Mobile 5.0 or are Windows Mobile 6.0 devices be required?
February 27, 2007 7:28 PM
 

Poo Ching Loong said:

Does SP1 help out on opening other users folder, eg: calendar with only specific folder rights?
February 27, 2007 8:45 PM
 

Johann Kruse's blog said:

Do you want to create rules in OWA? Have you heard of SCR? You know where I'm going with this...... Exchange
February 27, 2007 11:51 PM
 

Tibor Soós said:

There are a lot of streightforward things missing from RTM in my opinion that should be included in SP1:
- Journal Rules scope for specific message classification
- Outlook rule criteria for message classification
- Managed folder hierarchies
- Automatic message classification provisioning to Outlook
February 28, 2007 5:22 AM
 

ITechTips said:

With Exchange 2007, we introduced Clustered Continuous Replication (CCR) for replication of data between 2 servers within a cluster within the same datacenter. With SCR, data replicates to a non-clustered server in a remote datacenter. If the primary
February 28, 2007 10:37 AM
 

James O'Neill's blog said:

Someone ... and I don't know his name ... leaked some information about Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1
February 28, 2007 12:18 PM
 

Carpe Diem: Flaphead.com @ Home said:

Humm looks like a secret that crept out or should I say was forced out! The Beta is not due out until
February 28, 2007 12:25 PM
 

Tim Smeltzer said:

What happened to the listing of Mobility features?
March 1, 2007 1:10 PM
 

Sean Hook said:

No sMIME in the RTM OWA? How are international users handled? In OWA 2003 we used SMIME so that the messages would be sent in UTF-8 (for eastern character support). Do I need SMIME in 2007 to do the same or is UTF-8 included with OWA by default?
March 1, 2007 5:07 PM
 

Dan said:

Features I would like to see (not already mentioned here):

-Ability to create a GAL from the GUI
-Support for the rich client interface on OWA with other Ajax enabled browsers besides IE on Windows
March 1, 2007 9:02 PM
 

The Electric Wand said:

The Exchange development team have done a nice job of expanding the high availability options with the
March 2, 2007 5:49 AM
 

Shannon Fitzpatrick said:

I work at a small bank in MS, and we are near completion of migrating our 600+ users from Lotus Domino to Ex2k7.  The first phase was to migrate all users to Exchange, and have them use OWA until we can provide Office 2007 to all users (phase 2).  Two main complaints of my users have been the missing ability to create personal distribution lists and the ability to "send & file" their sent emails (instead of dumping all sent emails into the sent items folder).

I am glad to see the personal distribution lists issue will be addressed in SP1, and would like to see a "send & file" option added in future releases.  I have found an Outlook add-in (QuickFile) that may be a temporary solution for some of my Outlook users, but it would be nice if this was native to OWA and Outlook 2007.
March 2, 2007 11:30 AM
 

Mahmoud Magdy said:

well can you add something to manager GAL and addresslists permissions
March 3, 2007 3:01 AM
 

James O'Neill's blog said:

No sense denying it, I like Mary Jo Foley linking to something I wrote . Although being cast as a member
March 4, 2007 11:07 AM
 

ITS Tech Blog - » Talking Exchange 2007 SP1… said:

PingBack from http://blog.itsolutionsla.com/index.php/2007/03/04/talking-exchange-2007-sp1/
March 4, 2007 8:37 PM
 

Marc said:

I think MS missed something on the featurelist i'm awaiting toooooo long - OWA Firefox Support (Premium Edition) and not this shit compatibility modus. Someone at Ms hearing the rumors out there??? I don't like to use IE7... i'd like to use the much better Browser - Firefox.

Zimbra, Scalix and so on - all have drag and drop in Firefox without ActiveX shit. Ms - GO ON support other Browsers!!!
March 6, 2007 6:26 AM
 

Paolo said:

Will SP1 manage shared mailboxs and dynamic address list (build with Opath syntax for recipient filtering) with a GUI insted Shell? I think that thouse simple things should be easier to do!
Thank you
March 7, 2007 5:24 AM
 

Michael said:

Just rolled out Exchange 2007 to a client. Main things missing that should be addressed:
Ability to bring up properties of a user and add to multiple distribution lists at the same time, This is missing from GUI.
Ability to view sizes of all mailboxes in 1 list, Why oh Why was this made powershell only ?!!
Others will be rectified by SP1. Main gripe - I don't mind the philosophy of being able to do everything in a powershell command that can be done in the GUI but I didn't expect core tasks to be stripped from the GUI completely.
Otherwise stable & OWA is amazing.
March 7, 2007 6:32 AM
 

Jakob said:

Found lots of info here. Thank.. Just one question.. Can someone please tell me if I can be sure that SP1 will enable public folde in OWA "as we knew them before". Thanks again
March 7, 2007 1:36 PM
 

Athanyel said:

How does SCR work with clusters?  We need to have HA at our local site but want remote DR.  Can we have an HA cluster locally and then SCR it to a remote data center.
March 7, 2007 2:51 PM
 

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 at the brand with the four stripes said:

PingBack from http://stripe.name/4/2007/03/08/microsoft-exchange-server-2007-service-pack-1/
March 8, 2007 10:45 AM
 

gr8fl1 said:

Are there any updates to migrating from novell Groupwise to Exchange 2007? I am trying to get Exchange 2007 to be able to work with Groupwise in a novell network. The true goal is to have the network migrate to MS, but it is necessary to be able to have exchange 2007 be able to work with edirectory first.

Any ideas or updates? I do not want to hire out Quest to do the migration, as that would bust my budget. =0)

Thanks!
March 8, 2007 5:40 PM
 

Scott Lowe » Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 - beta in April said:

PingBack from http://www.slowe.com/2007/03/09/exchange-server-2007-service-pack-1-beta-in-april/
March 9, 2007 10:47 PM
 

Henry said:

Any idea about when the SP1 release date is? I know the beta is April-ish...
March 14, 2007 2:40 PM
 

Scratching Your Itch « Dmitry’s blog said:

PingBack from http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/scratching-your-itch/
March 15, 2007 8:05 AM
 

.: Stefan Gabriel Georgescu's blog :. said:

Do you want to create rules in OWA? Have you heard of SCR? You know where I'm going with this...... Exchange
March 17, 2007 5:22 AM
 

Wolwes said:

Do I need to upgrade the AD Schema for the new Exchange 07 SP1?

Thanks.
March 19, 2007 10:51 AM
 

Henry said:

Any idea how difficult it is going to be to tranisition to SCR from CCR when Sp1 is released? Thanks!
March 20, 2007 1:00 PM
 

Damien Caro's Blog said:

Le mythe des services packs n'apportant pas de nouvelles fonctionnalités est bel et bien mort ! En effet,
March 26, 2007 7:31 PM
 

&nbsp said:

Microsoft Exchange team is wrapping up the Beta version of Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and it is scheduled
March 27, 2007 1:56 AM
 

taiwo said:

I'm trying to develop a CV repository database program. I want the program to automatically send out email to the clients to update their CV (periodically, say every three months). I heard exchange server has such features but i don't know how it works can anyone help me. the database is in Ms Access.
March 27, 2007 6:41 AM
 

subject: exchange said:

Although the SP1 Beta will only be available next month (RTM is expected by the end of this year) you
March 27, 2007 3:26 PM
 

The Sean Blog said:

While some previous details on Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2007 have been previously disclosed, and then
March 28, 2007 12:33 PM
 

.: Stefan Gabriel Georgescu's blog :. said:

Its a little ways off however the Exchange product team has released some details on what is planned
March 31, 2007 5:13 PM
 

Atoyot said:

Where is the supoprt for wireless syncing of notes???
April 1, 2007 1:28 PM
 

boe said:

Hello,

I set up an exchange 2007 in a production environment that already had an exchange 2003 server- huge mistake, I did a lot of damage.   Never had any issues like this with Exchange 2000 or 2003.

I've set up and maintained about 35 exchange servers - never a single issue - I'm lost with Exchange 2007.

Please OH PLEASE make the mmc do everything that I can already do with exchange 2000 and 2003.   I've yet to speak to a  single Exchange admin who likes the new cmdlets.   I'm not saying they shouldn't exist but no one I know wants to learn programming just to set up and administer an exchange server.

I'm sure exchange 2007 will be great once it can do everything that exchange 2003 can do without hiring a programmer but right now I can't even hire consultants who recommend exchange 2007.   2003 worked pretty well even when it was just going RTM but 2007 is too dang complicated to figure out unless you feel like doing a lot of reading and memorizing.

Can you imagine if they released Longhorn but you had to use cmdlets to add users, change their rights or to add web sites in IIS?   I'm sure the cmdlets seem perfectly natural to programmers but I haven't programmed in 20 years- for a reason - I didn't enjoy it.
April 4, 2007 4:57 AM
 

David said:

Hi,

I'm just into a deployement planning.

I would like to know if it will be possible to setup SCR after installation or it must be an option to be choosed from start like CCR ?

And what the limitations ?  Can we install all role on the same server or server part of SCR must have only the mailbox role ?
April 5, 2007 8:50 AM
 

Exchange Blog Latino said:

Ya se adelantaron algunas de las novedades que vendrán incluidas en el SP1 de Exchange Server 2007, para
April 5, 2007 10:15 PM
 

easy1ndian said:

DO NOT USE ANY 2007 RELEASES(vista, x2k7, o2k7) OF MICROSOFT
I'm not shocked to see the features of X2K7 SP1. I knew X2k7 RTM is half-cooked. So is Vista RTM and Office 2007 RTM. None of them complete. I installed X2K7 in production network and huge mistake I did, it took me full 3 days to recover everything by re-installing exchange 2003 and restoring the database. The exchange documentation did not mention anything about X2K7 creating it's own administrative group or routing group. I was able to move the mailboxes from X2K3 to X2K7 but address book and other setting will not move and routing will not happen if I shutdown X2K3. MS will go down under if they continue to test people's patience by sending them BETA products as RTMs and SP1 & SP2 as feature packs which in fact makes the RTM real. I do not understand what's packed in the whopping 5.4GB installation source which 12MB maildaemon can not do. It's pity to see that the developers publicly claim "SP1 will fill in the feature holes that we just didn't have time to complete by RTM"
April 7, 2007 9:42 AM
 

boe said:

Easy1Indian - can't agree more - I posted a similar comment in the MS Newsgroup - public.Excahnge.setup  - topic - Where do you sign up for the exchange 2007 SP1 beta?

Someone from MS said - they wanted feedback on Exchange 2007 I said some similar things and they said there are no issues with removing Exchange 2007, it doesn't do anything to exchange 2003 and I was made to feel like an idiot because I didn't want to use the powerscripts since I was happy with managing through ESM in the past 3 versions.   They didn't seem to think there were any issues with public folders either.  I guess since I'm not a programmer my opinions didn't count for much.   Hopefully you'll post this comment in that group as well.
April 7, 2007 6:42 PM
 

RTCBlog.com » Blog Archive » Exchange 2007 said:

PingBack from http://rtcblog.com/?p=3
April 8, 2007 3:44 PM
 

Harold Wong's Blog Site said:

I am finished with the Q&A Log from Part 19 (Introduction to Disaster Recovery) of the 24 Part Exchange
April 9, 2007 10:25 PM
 

TDS OWA and Edge limitations said:

It woud be nice if Edge service could filter and send back to CAS the OWA and Outlook anywhere comunication. Also it would be alot better if Microsoft allows authenticated SMTP relay for outside users on edge. thats a big limitation.
April 10, 2007 10:34 AM