There is actually some interesting byplay going on these days with the creation of functionality , the creation of PowerShell cmdlets (now part of the Common Server Criteria, or whatever they are calling it these days), the creation of documentation, and the creation of GUI management interfaces.
"To ship is to choose". GUI and documentation are now prioritized last and often get slipped. Documentation can be updated online (and there is an every-30-day RTW update of documentation these days), but new GUI has to wait until at least a SP if not a major release. So between RTM and GA there is often at least one doc update, sometimes that gets everything documented, sometimes not. In the Exchange 2010 case, certain things are STILL not documented and are not assured of being documented until after SP1 is RTM'ed. Some parts of 2008 R2 Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: Windows 7 - Libraries Some of it is a matter of being worn down, and some of it is due to being on the other side of the house -- trying to provide features and functionality on a schedule. I have a healthy respect for the difficulty of getting features into a complex product, and having to try and sell, market and support it. Life is full of compromises. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jul 28, 2010 6:55 PM, "James Hill" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The lack of control of Windows 7 features via GP was less than amusing at Teched here last year. Obviously it was all about how good Win 7 was and during a session on Group Policy they harped on about how many new GP's there were. They didn't mention that the Win 7 features and the new Group Policies often didn't match up :) -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 2:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Libraries What they call "meeting the bar" for new _core OS_ feature content in a service pack is very high, especially since the Vista reset. This is why we've seen some things decoupled - such as IIS, which comes with the OS but has been updated independently during the last several release cycles. We might see new GPs in a SP, but I doubt they'll add much in terms of functionality during a SP to _core OS_ features (and I consider AD and GP processing to be core OS, I haven't investigated this particular issue in the SP1 beta myself - not one of my particular interests). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 - Libraries On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I joked earlier about them coming in Service Packs, but that hasn't > been customary for Windows OS in a while. Maybe a feature pack? It'll be in Update Rollup 2 to Feature Pack 1. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
