Ahh yes, I remember those rumors well (and being stoked about it). At the time I had escaped the responsibilities of personally dealing with Exchange 5.5 and thought a genuine sql interface would allow for the sorts of things we were doing with sendmail and friends at $lastJob. Exchange might start to get interesting I thought; alas...
So here's a wish which hopefully doesn't come off too much like a whine: The wealth of tooling in the SQL Server product arguably exceeds that of Exchange by a fair margin. Maybe someday there will be a mapi bridge to the land of SQL Management Studio (hoping and wishing). With immediately available value in things like Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services it's hard to think they're not still thinking about it in Redmond...somewhere. Many riches granted the person who builds such a tool! ~JasonG > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 09:05 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT, sorta: New blog post: Determining the Exchange Version - > without using Get-ExchangeServer > > Code-name Kodiak. > > It was Exchange-on-SQL. (SQL Server Yukon, what became SQL 2005.) It ran, > but it was a dog; even on 64-bit systems. > > There were learnings from that, both on the SQL side and on the Exchange > side, but the decision was made to stick with ESE. And ESE has actually > exploded in use in various places in Windows since then. Probably a > couple of dozen features/roles that use ESE now. It's a major DB > engine/platform - built into every Windows OS since Windows 2000 - that > no one knows about. :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 8:49 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT, sorta: New blog post: Determining the Exchange Version - > without using Get-ExchangeServer > > Quite nice Michael, thank you for continuing to post these scripts. > > This reminds me, what ever happened to Exchange v7 (2003 being 6.5, 2007 > being 8). > > ~JasonG > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 17:16 > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: OT, sorta: New blog post: Determining the Exchange Version - > > without using Get-ExchangeServer > > > > New blog post: Determining the Exchange Version - without using Get- > > ExchangeServer > > > > > http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2012/04/25/determin > > ing-the-exchange-version-without-using-get-exchangeserver.aspx > > > > http://bit.ly/I24DiE > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Michael B. Smith > > > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > > > http://theessentialexchange.com/ <http://theessentialexchange.com/> > > > > > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > > software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to > > listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
