1] Lots of normal functionality (i.e., things your average admin will need to do) isn't in the GUI console. You have to do it in PowerShell.
Why do they continue down this path? Whilst I understand the benefits of using Powershell (it has saved me a lot of time in certain instances) I don't understand why features/functions that make sense to be in the GUI as well aren't in there. Even the simple ability to see mailbox size for example SHOULD have been in the GUI for 07. There are a lot of SMB's that have jack of all trade admins managing the exchange environment. They don't have time to "specialise" and therefore can't become a Powershell expert. I really don't understand where Microsoft is going with this. -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Now that it's RTM'ed, I can express my opinion publically. I've got a couple of bad things to say about it: 1] Lots of normal functionality (i.e., things your average admin will need to do) isn't in the GUI console. You have to do it in PowerShell. 2] Retention Policies are a step backwards from Messaging Records Management. 3] The implementation of the Archive Mailbox is half-baked, at best. 4] All of the Continous Replication solutions are gone - I'm most disappointed with the removal of SCR and LCR which did not require Windows Enterprise. The only HA solution is DAG (based on failover clustering, which requires Windows Enteprise). In USD, this puts about a $6K licensing premium on HA. 5] STILL no two-box HA solution. While you can colocate CA/HT on MB now, for that to be a HA solution, you have to have a clustered LB solution sitting in front (if the LB isn't clustered, then you don't have a HA solution - you just have a resilient backend). With the cost of that, you might as well have two more CA/HT boxes sitting in front running Windows NLB. 6] No method of doing an upgrade without either: a] breaking HA of an existing installation, or b] purchasing new hardware. 7] Microsoft is pushing SATA for storage HARD. People using SAN are now at a price/feature disadvantage. Not using SAN is going to be a hard-sell for a lots of techies, I think, when just one release ago they were pushing management for lots of expensive SAN disk. Not to say that there aren't lots of good/great features - there are. As always - you should evaluate the features/functionality for each company, one by one. ________________________________________ From: Jason Gurtz [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 > If you're about to deploy an Exchange server and can wait, I am hearing > only good things about Exchange 2010. Finally, useful cross-browser OWA! It was about time :) ~JasonG
