We're wrapping up our Beta of Exchange 2007 SP1 (to be released through TechNet plus this April), and as always we wanted to discuss it publicly here first. We are targeting final release with Long...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Hello,
I set up an exchange 2007 in a production environment that already had an exchange 2003 server- huge mistake, I did a lot of damage. Never had any issues like this with Exchange 2000 or 2003.
I've set up and maintained about 35 exchange servers - never a single issue - I'm lost with Exchange 2007.
Please OH PLEASE make the mmc do everything that I can already do with exchange 2000 and 2003. I've yet to speak to a single Exchange admin who likes the new cmdlets. I'm not saying they shouldn't exist but no one I know wants to learn programming just to set up and administer an exchange server.
I'm sure exchange 2007 will be great once it can do everything that exchange 2003 can do without hiring a programmer but right now I can't even hire consultants who recommend exchange 2007. 2003 worked pretty well even when it was just going RTM but 2007 is too dang complicated to figure out unless you feel like doing a lot of reading and memorizing.
Can you imagine if they released Longhorn but you had to use cmdlets to add users, change their rights or to add web sites in IIS? I'm sure the cmdlets seem perfectly natural to programmers but I haven't programmed in 20 years- for a reason - I didn't enjoy it.
I set up an exchange 2007 in a production environment that already had an exchange 2003 server- huge mistake, I did a lot of damage. Never had any issues like this with Exchange 2000 or 2003.
I've set up and maintained about 35 exchange servers - never a single issue - I'm lost with Exchange 2007.
Please OH PLEASE make the mmc do everything that I can already do with exchange 2000 and 2003. I've yet to speak to a single Exchange admin who likes the new cmdlets. I'm not saying they shouldn't exist but no one I know wants to learn programming just to set up and administer an exchange server.
I'm sure exchange 2007 will be great once it can do everything that exchange 2003 can do without hiring a programmer but right now I can't even hire consultants who recommend exchange 2007. 2003 worked pretty well even when it was just going RTM but 2007 is too dang complicated to figure out unless you feel like doing a lot of reading and memorizing.
Can you imagine if they released Longhorn but you had to use cmdlets to add users, change their rights or to add web sites in IIS? I'm sure the cmdlets seem perfectly natural to programmers but I haven't programmed in 20 years- for a reason - I didn't enjoy it.