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I think the blog posts do a great job of telling us admins out there where the Exchange team's head is or was at when whatever was developed and why. I certainly hope the blog sticks around.
I will say I have been disappointed that the content here has gone pretty much 90+% Exchange Online/cloud centric. It seems like we got a lot of quality content here for Exchange 2013, then not too much for Exchange 2016, and practically nothing at all for Exchange 2019. I get it, Microsoft wants everyone paying monthly subscriptions and wants Exchange to be a SaaS, but we're staying on prem (not because we can't migrate to "the cloud" but because we don't want to) and it would be nice to see some content geared toward us. Its ok to talk to us about Exchange 2019, I promise :)
Just my $0.02.
We definitely do not want to leave on-prem behind so you can expect that on-prem content will continue. Note though that the focus on EXO is really more practical; EXO simply gets features a lot more often, therefore there is a lot more to write about there. It's more of a reflection of what the product is doing vs. some deliberate direction to specifically not write about on-prem... I'd be curious to hear if you have ideas on what you would want us to cover for on-prem, though!
- How about adding more features to On-Prem more often, to get more opportunities for blogging about On-Prem? :-)
E.g. with the shift from EWS to REST (or Graph in the long term?) as the preferred API it would be nice to see transparent access with REST (Graph) clients to EXO and EXOP. On-Prem only, not hybrid, please: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2016/09/26/on-premises-architectural-requirements-for-the-rest-api/#comment-295105
- Looking at some of the other comments it seems I'm not alone in yearning for more on-prem content.
As for what, I don't know. I'd love more in depth discussions about any improvements or changes in the managed availability stuff. There have to be many things that are different/better in Exchange 2019 than its predecessors. Exchange is just such a great product, I've loved it since I deployed my first one back with Exchange 2000 (skipped over 2007), just doesn't feel like it gets the limelight it still deserves these days.