Sorry Exchange team, but I do have to agree with most of the comments here : How can you release an update every 3 months where I have to install my whole environmetn again ? Th is so stupid ! These "updates" will :
1. Completele deinstall my Exchaneg system
2. Then reinstall it with the new CU
Did you ever take into account how much time that will cost ? And this should really reduce the TCO ? Thats just rediculous, sorry, and I also see that you just want to push everybody in the cloud, which a lot of enterprises, especially in europe, just refusing because of legal requirements...Microsoft is an american company and when the next "patriot act" will be released, then all mailboxes must be scanned..a lot of german customers will not go into your cloud and if you continue with these stupid ideas, I also think that a lot of customers will pass Microsoft prodcuts...
It started with this STUPID "Exchange Admin Center" ! Why did you take away the logical and well structured MMC ? Your article is just pffff why you did that. You are really DESTROYING Exchange ! I am with Exchange since version 5.5 and what I see right now is just garbage, and it really hurts...please dont continue like that and HEAR to your customers !!
At the moment all of my customers just refuse Exchaneg 2013 and stay on Exchange 2010 since its the most friendly system at the moment...
André