Update 10/4/2007: Since this post has been published, we've updated the Exchange 2007 Autodiscover Service whitepaper to include this information. Please consult the whitepaper for most up-to-date ...
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Right On Alessandro Appiani! AutoDiscover is somebody's crack dream. I have been trying to get it to work correctly on my company's domain before I have to set it up for a customer. I have just gotten all of my Exchange customers on board with using an SSL period. I have 1 or 2 that won't spend the money. Many of my Exchange customers run Small Business Server and Exchange 2003. I can see me trying to explain this dual name SSL to mine and Microsoft's customers. I have never seen so many geeks blogging on one topic. Nobody is getting this one! I did not get why it wasn't working until I got into this blog. Now that I get why it is not working, I have got to say this is the same logic that said, "Let's hide file save as from them!" in Office 2007. Anybody developing these products with any business acumen?
Whether you are new with Exchange like "Jim - Newbie" or have set up and maintained many Exchange Servers, her are my thoughts:
- Many great new features in Exchange 2007
- Most companies I work with don't have separate Exchange Administrators. Breaking user management away from AD & going back to the 5.5 model is more complicated and difficult for me to explain to customers who wear Sys Admin caps when I am not on site.
- Who decided we all were command line freaks and no longer wanted effective GUI management interfaces?
- Like one blogger said, "Stop telling us how way cool Exchange 2007 is" and give us some outstanding straight forward "how to's" on the Knowledge Base.
- Fix this abortion called Autodiscover in Service Pack 2.
Whether you are new with Exchange like "Jim - Newbie" or have set up and maintained many Exchange Servers, her are my thoughts:
- Many great new features in Exchange 2007
- Most companies I work with don't have separate Exchange Administrators. Breaking user management away from AD & going back to the 5.5 model is more complicated and difficult for me to explain to customers who wear Sys Admin caps when I am not on site.
- Who decided we all were command line freaks and no longer wanted effective GUI management interfaces?
- Like one blogger said, "Stop telling us how way cool Exchange 2007 is" and give us some outstanding straight forward "how to's" on the Knowledge Base.
- Fix this abortion called Autodiscover in Service Pack 2.