E12 Q's.. just what I was waiting to hear:
64-Bit support: Will it have AMD64/EMT64 support? If so what benefits will we get from it? (E.G. Larger DB Cache sizes, Additional 64-Bit register support,etc...)
Outlook Web access:
Support for Single Sign-on in a FE/BE Enviornment - constant annoyance for companies that integrate OWA into their portals as we cannot use FE/BE internally as it does not supported Integrated Authentication. Single Sign-On with HTTP compression - currently no way of doing this also handy for Intranet Sites especially in companies with remote sites over slow links.
Ability to supoprt More Storage Groups/DB's per server?
Mobile Active Sync/Mobile Devices - It currently uses SMS with puts wireless devices @ the mercy of carriers. Some carries have notoriously slow Email->SMS gateways any way of getting around this (Push Activesync?). How's about the ability to use a SMS/EMS/MMS phone was a wireless email/Pager... e.g. when a new mail arrives send a copy to the SMS/EMS/MMS enabled device. Wireless device provisioning (like Rim's BES 4.0)speaking the BES 4.0 having similar support for wireless device policies, encryption/security and wireless device termination would be nice.
Any Improvements to Clustering (# of supported users/cluster, Failover times)
Any sort of Built in HSM? E.G. Keep current data on Fast FC/SAN disk, keep "older" data on slower ATA/SAN disk?
Any new disaster recovery features, espically ones that help with remote site/SAN replication (log shipping?)
Oh well that's my wish list.. curious to see what everyone else posts.
Regards,
M@
Matt dot drnovscek at fairmont dot com