No more hiding in the server room
Exchange 2010 -- voice your opinions
Do you think that Exchange 2010 is the single best piece of software ever written? Or are you in the mood for a good ol' rant about it?
Here's your chance to have your say! I'm running a little survey on Exchange 2010 to get your early feedback on the headline features. Just go to
https://www.surveymk.com/s/RgExchange2010
There's also a little prize for one lucky winner: a $100 gift certificate to ThinkGeek.
I'm looking forward to hearing what you think. Please pass on the survey link to anyone else who is interested.
Thanks in advance.
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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Angliss on -
I'd love to participate in your survey, can you send me an exchange server? ;)
I need to get a "small" lab for home to tinker with, work won't fork out the $$$ for play things.
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Permalink Reply by Graycat on -
that sounds familiar! I went with virtualising and using trial version of the software in the end so might be worth a go.
VMWare Fusion if you're running on a Mac but a great free one for Windows is VirtualBox.
I'm still running Exchange 2000 + 2003 in the enterprise so whilst '07 is scary '10 is nightmare worthy! :o) lol
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Ayer on
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I hope, Jonathan, you don't think you need to >know< about something to have an opinion! :-)
In the first two versions of this post (both of which Ning swallowed), I did say that whether you've tried it or not, I'd still like to hear what your impressions are. It's OK if that's just based on what you've heard/read/assumed....
(And sorry to hear that work is stingy with the $£€ -- I've done all my tinkering on virtual machines too. So I've still not got a sense of whether the performance claims are true!)
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Permalink Reply by Christian Dinh on -
I tried to install the Exchange '10 beta version on my test lab and it was a mess. I wonder if there's a cleaner version to test out. I'm running E2k3 and is looking to upgrade to 2k7 next year.
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Well, the RTM version of 2010 should be better, but.....
The SP1 beta is coming out in June. Could be worth hanging tight until then.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Hengesbach on -
I'm really looking forward to 2010. There are a lot of great positives (coming from 2K3): major IO improvements, OWA and user self service tools(message tracking, etc), Exchange Management shell (powershell). Value is greatly improved because: 1) Can do more with less (IO / costly disk), 2) Users are more empowered (less of: helpdesk where did my message go?), 3) automation / scriptabllity on the administrative side.
Just need to get all the AV / AS / etc vendors onboard supporting 2010.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Rogers on -
In my recent quick testing (install a DC, install an Exchange server, send email between two accounts!), it seems REALLY nice when combined with Outlook 2010 (the Room Finder is an awesome feature! People will LOVE us in IT again :) ). The management stuff is bonkers compared to 2003 though, it's way different (we've skipped 2007 so don't know how similar it is to that) and the message tracking stuff seems crap, unfortunately. That will be a big downside for us as we're often using it to prove an email went where it was meant to and it's the user being daft that's the problem!
I'm a little intrigued by the low level management of it though - the old way in 2003 was to split the data and log files to separate disks, but I can't see how you do this in 2010? I've read the disk activity is much reduced in 2010 though, so is this even necessary any more?
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Rogers on
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We had problems with 2010 beta too - it wouldn't play with other existing version of Exchange (nothing for 2003 and needed a service pack for 2007 which wasn't out yet, IIRC). The final version sits okay with 2003 in our brief testing so far..
(not sure if this is going to reply to the correct thread, so this is aimed at Christian Dinh!)
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Permalink Reply by Luqman on -
Our company has just upgraded to exchange yesterday, we are the Beta users, I don't have much to say right now, but will let you know soon .
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Permalink Reply by John McGrath on -
I am testing Office 2010 for roll-out to our Enterprise, and if Exchange 2010 is as good as the Office version, it will be a winner.
They finally fixed a lot of issues with speed and bulk that plagued both 2003 and 2007.
Here's hoping that the same processes were carried over to Exchange.
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