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Exchange Server 2010 RC1 this week

Aug. 17, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Steven Bink reports that Microsoft is set to deliver the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of its upcoming Exchange Server 2010:

Sources tell me that Microsoft will release Exchange 2010 Release Candidate 1 for public download this week!

So get your labs ready with Windows 2008 R2 to start testing out the next generation of the world’s most popular e-mail servers.

Exchange 2010 will help organizations reduce costs, protect communications and delight e-mail users ...

My understanding is that Exchange 2010 will be part of the Office 2010 product wave, but that Microsoft will actually launch it alongside Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in October. So it sort of makes sense that the final release would be somewhere between October and whenever the majority of Office 2010 launches in 1H 2010.

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Waethorn
on Aug 17, 2009
"My understanding is that Exchange 2010 will be part of the Office 2010 product wave" Exchange IS part of Office, althought they don't always advertise it as such. Ditto for SharePoint, and many other server applications/platforms from Microsoft.
rr0de74@live.com
on Aug 17, 2009
I for one welcome the SAN cert GUI. Having to learn a dozen powershell commands and the order they went in was nuts compared to creating a cert request/installing them under 2003/IIS6. On top of that there were often problems with the certificate sticking which resulted in many hotfixes. Exchange 2010 is 2007 finished IMHO.
Ocean
on Aug 17, 2009
*This Post is OT* If you don't like OT, skip to the next post... I dare anyone to read this by Jon Gruber of Daring Fireball and say he's a close-minded Mac evangelist: http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/the_android_opportunity
Delmont
on Aug 17, 2009
OK, enough! Paul, please bounce Ocean!
Delmont
on Aug 17, 2009
OK, enough! Paul, please bounce Ocean!
shark47
on Aug 17, 2009
"If you don't like OT, skip to the next post..." What you should have said was, "If you want to ignore trolls, skip to the next post...."
de Silentio
on Aug 17, 2009
@Waethorn: "Exchange IS part of Office, althought they don't always advertise it as such. Ditto for SharePoint, and many other server applications/platforms from Microsoft." It's obvious that SharePoint is part of the Office suite as it's name is "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server". However, I question whether or not Exchange is part of the Office suite. You can't even find Exchange information on the MS Office webiste. If you search for "Exchange" on the Offie website, it doesn't even return items for Exchange Server.
de Silentio
on Aug 17, 2009
Question: Are there upgrades to Exchane CALs? Or do you have to purchase new CALs at full price with a new version of Exchange?
de Silentio
on Aug 17, 2009
@Paul: "Microsoft will actually launch it alongside Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in October" Does this mean that they will RTM Exchange 2010 and publicly release it at a later date. Or doesn't Exchange go through RTM?
rr0de74@live.com
on Aug 17, 2009
Exchange was never part of Office before. It was originally part of BackOffice, basically any Microsoft application that required Windows Server... http://labmice.techtarget.com/BackOffice/default.htm Wow look at this site below. Its still around but none of the links work. http://www.microsoft.com/PRODUCTS/servers/designed/ It
rr0de74@live.com
on Aug 17, 2009
Look a collectors addition.... http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-BackOffice-4-5-Resource-Kit/dp/0735605831
rr0de74@live.com
on Aug 17, 2009
OT @Mike Galos, where ever he may be. Can you we compare the iTouch that will be released at this event to the current Zune 120, since the Zune HD wont be out until the 15th? http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/17/apple_annual_music_event_t...
RunTimeError
on Aug 17, 2009
@rr0de74@live.com I'm pretty sure you mean "edition", yes?
rr0de74@live.com
on Aug 17, 2009
yes my apologies.
lketchum
on Aug 17, 2009
@rr0de74@live.com I agree with you entirely - E2K7 pre-SP1 was a lot of work that simply didn't need to be that way. We rolled it out early as our E2K3 servers were aging and we needed several of the features - auto answer files, etc... E2K10 is def E2K7 finished. I really like E2K7 and think it has been great, but setting it up was not for the inexperienced in any way. While typing away in the command line was nostalgic, we had better things to do and aside from the time it took, it seemed as though it was half finished. Worse, at the time, the documentation simply stunk.
robertsjoe
on Aug 17, 2009
OK, enough! Someone please bounce Delmont for being a cry-baby.
wjglenn141
on Aug 17, 2009
Paul, Please do something about your commenters. Seriously. As a favor to your readers. I really enjoy your site and have for a long time. And the on-topic comments from reasonable people are a lot of what make the site interesting. However, I'm seriously considering not bothering with it anymore (or at least the comment section) just because of trolls like Ocean and robertsjoe. And I'd miss it. I'm all for differing opinions and I understand how tough it is to implement a solid bounce policy. But with just a little effort, you could make things better for so many readers. First off-topic post, warning. Second, warning and maybe a temp ban. Third, no more commenting. Same policy for personal attacks. I'm sure you could find someone to help you admin the site if you don't have the time. Please?
rr0de74@live.com
on Aug 18, 2009
So many things about E2K7 were just off. While I applaud the command line efforts of PS to build a more powerful CLI, this is Microsoft the GUI OS, especially when compared to Unix/Linux. Little things like showing a list of mailboxes and sorting them by size, which was easy to do in Exchange prior to E2K7, was now a PS command??? A serious WTF Microsoft. Taking all management of Exchange attributes out of ADUC was another huge change for our staff, and we had to totally change the way junior people managed Exchange attributes. We only have about 1600 mailboxes in our Exchange environment. With E2K3 we had 2 servers and they were both on VMware, a mailbox server with 2 CPU's and 2gigs of RAM, and a Front End server with 2 CPU's and a gig of RAM, it ran fine like this for years. When we finally sized it right, our E2K7 mailbox server has 12gigs of RAM and 4 CPU's for the same # of mailboxes. It even has a dedicated hard drive (virtual disk) of 30gigs just for its swap file, to stop all of the out of virtual memory errors we were getting. That said we CANT even use the ESM on that server as its so dam slow. E2K7 was a transition version of Exchange much like Exchange 2000, that I wish we had skipped. Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2003 were so very solid. Lets hope 2010 is like 5.5 and 2003.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Aug 18, 2009
rr0de74 "@Mike Galos, where ever he may be. Can you we compare the iTouch that will be released at this event to the current Zune 120, since the Zune HD wont be out until the 15th?" I'm sure you will and I'm sure people will laugh at you.

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