You couldn’t ask for better timing, more on Exchange 12 (2007)
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I had my posting a couple days ago on the 64-bit architecture stance of MS for the new Exchange. NetworkWorld was kind enough to toss a front page story on the upgrade pains that are to come for those shops also: Users will face new clustering limitations and will have to eliminate all Exchange 5.5 servers from their environments. In addition, they will not be able to do any in-place upgrades between Exchange 2000/2003 and Exchange 2007.
.....major changes include a new role-based architecture that could require users to roll out as many as five types of Exchange servers.... The current versions gives two deployment options...
So let me get this right? Your clustering gets worse and I can't even have old versions around? Oh yeah, and don't plan on overlaying that code, let's get that new hardware. If you are large scale, plan on revisiting clustering and adding a bunch of servers to handle the roles. While they could run on fewer machines, that is not likely for a lot of users.
Bless Domino folks.
Then to add insult to the injury (as they say): And Exchange no longer will have its own site topology but will run on top of Active Directory topology
While this is good and bad. Good because you streamline your topology management. Bad because you have to rip and migrate the topology and then rely ONLY on your AD topology. What if that tree has funny limbs that can't talk right. Cut it off and grow a new one :-)
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On Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 by Chris Miller
