Have broad Exchange questions? What are they?

Need the option to connect Exchange Organisations between Forests, with features like one unified GAL for the users visible in Outlook, features like "universal groups" across forest boundaries ...

1. Will we see a version of Exchange soon which may ease the pains those of us with centralized Exchcnge server hardware yet highly decentralized Exchange admin situations deal with on a regular basis? Perhaps a version that is much more role based for a quasi-hosting facility type deployment. For example think about governments hosting Exchange centrally for their many smaller agencies, but each agency is responsible for user/mailbox administration.

2. Will auditing ever become part of Exchange? Can we at least get  of "Last Accessed By" split out so we can identify if a user accessed a calendar free/busy information or someone's Inbox?

3. Will archiving to secondary storage (or other means) ever become part of the product?

4. Please give us the option to merge or split the Exchange & AD tools. Not all of customers have seperate AD & Exchnage teams.

Thank you.

I'd like to get a better sense that the Exchange folks and the SharePoint folks have been talking to each other. The email integration in MOSS 2007 is sorely lacking .. very much so.

I would not push for reversing the decision to phase out Exchange public folders .. I actually think they have outlived their usefulness. But for companies that have dependencies on their functionality, can we expect SharePoint to be able to pick this up with more solid integration in the future? And not just the ability to send email to a document library, or a migration tool, but allowing posts/emails to be directed to SharePoint in a scaleable way, and be accessible in a user-friendly way. Think "public folder web part".