I don't agree. We are a small shop of about 60 employees and we are running Exchange 2007 without a hitch. It simply "just works". I have only had to delve into the mysteries of powershell once and everything else that my office has needed has been configurable using the GUI. No problem. Furthermore, the fact that Exchange is bundled with Essential Business Server, which (AFAIK) Microsoft targets towards small-medium sized businesses (<300 users) suggests to me that they intend for Exchange to be used in those kinds of environments. I am not aware of any "big push" from Microsoft.
Regards, Andrew IT Manager From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshin...@tacteam.net] Sent: 11 November 2009 01:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM? I think you're right about that. The fact that no major investments in ease of use for the on premises solution always indicated to me that Exchange Online was the future for small and mid-sized businesses for Exchange. Big shops can afford Exchange teams who do that all the time -- so their invesment in dealing with PS ins't quite as onerous. The big push is to drive smaller shops to Online, which from my experience, isn't too bad. ____________________________________________ TOM SHINDER | Sr. Consultant/Technical Writer 206.443.1117 | shin...@prowesscorp.com<mailto:shin...@prowesscorp.com> 5701 Sixth Avenue South | Seattle, WA 98108 PROWESS | WWW.PROWESSCORP.COM<http://www.prowesscorp.com/> ____________________________________________ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM? I think maybe you're at a point similar to where I am. We're an exchange 2003 shop, currently. I'm thinking really hard about pushing for a hosted exchange. Exchange is arguably the most complex piece of software MS ships and is only becoming more so. The reasons risk/reward profile of hosting v. on-site is beginning to swing towards hosted. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:19 PM, John Hornbuckle <john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us<mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us>> wrote: There's nothing wrong with PowerShell-a powerful CLI is a great thing. But from a design perspective, the goal needs to be to give people more choices rather than fewer. Don't give people just a GUI. Don't give them just a CLI. Give them both, and let them choose. What Microsoft did with Exchange 2007 was to take away administrators' choices. They made it so that you *had* to use the CLI for things that you previously could do with a GUI. That's not a step in the right direction. John From: Davies,Matt [mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com<mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com>] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM? Seeing the presentations and the questions from the audience at TechEd in Berlin, PowerShell is here to stay, and if anything it has been increased due to things like archiving. >From what was said, basic stuff you will always be able to do from the GUI, >the rest needs Poweshell, what peoples idea of basic is seems to differ :) With Server 2008R2 AD you can do ADUC stuff from Powershell. Cheers Matt From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com<mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com>] Sent: 10 November 2009 13:35 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM? Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet? I'm curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI. This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is for the birds. Holy step backwards. From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk<mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk>] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM? Hi Troy, It was in the news. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx Enjoy! Andrew 2009/11/9 Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com<mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM, <tbarnh...@rcrh.org<mailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org>> wrote: > I thought we were still months out on these. Is this correct that this is > the RTM? http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm -- Ben ________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ This e-mail (including all attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately at h...@generalatlantic.com<mailto:h...@generalatlantic.com> . Thank You. NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure.