We’re approaching the one-year anniversary of the release of Exchange Server 2013. This is traditionally the time when people start asking questions like: When is Service Pack 1 coming? ...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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I have been a fan of Exchange for many years. However, over the years, since Exchange 2003, the EMC, ECP, EAC functionality has been reduced to a point that it almost gives us no decent functionality whatsoever.
Gui's exist for a reason, and while Powershell is a good tool, it's NOT the end all be all for management of Exchange Server.
I tried to perform a very simple task today, filter email boxes and groups that contained a specific keyword so I can check all their settings. All other versions of Exchange had this spiffy little feature that allowed you to filter your results, but low and behold, Exchange 2013 replaced this with a search feature that is pretty much worthless.
I'm doing my best guys, but I'm about to write off Exchange after 10 years of being an evangelist for it. Please fix the issues, namely stop removing functionality from the EAC that actually helps people do their jobs. As said before, Powershell is great, but it isn't suited for all management tasks. I don't know what focus groups you are listening to, but we need functionality, not powershell.