With the Exchange delivery nearby, it seems that the Microsoft Exchange team turns now from lengthy in-depth articles and scary scripting tutorials into more marketing oriented articles.

Such as this one:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/11/10/431454.aspx

Catch the not so surprising but detailed nonetheless news:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/11106-micros...e.html

Like all the rest of the upcoming products Exchange will be available on the web way before any media is available. Yey for us downloaders and volume licensers!

I confirmed this by logging in and being able to download this. I also got some shiny new serials for Vista and Office 2007. I will upgrade as soon as Office 2007 Hebrew is out For now I will skip Vista, at least until some more application and driver compatibiliy exists.

Here are the links:

Office Enterprise 2007 Win32 English Disk Kit MVL DVD - https://licensing.microsoft.com/eLicense/L1033/Pro...-01597

Office Enterprise 2007 Win32 English Disk Kit MVL UG Only DVD - https://licensing.microsoft.com/eLicense/L1033/Pro...-01680

It seems like the new Exchange 2007 Enterprise edition will now be only required for very large Exchange depoloyments, clustered or NAS based. The limits on the standard edition has been lifted and curiously enough it supports continuous replication, a former costly feature with 3rd party support only.

However, some of the Exchange 2007 feature such as unified messaging and forefront security will only be available with Exchange 2007 Enterprise.

For more information:

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/preview/edition_...e.mspx

The Microsoft Exchange team post another in-depth article on Exchange 2007, this time on delegating Active Directory permissions. Please note that some of this seemingly Exchange 2007 related article also apply to Exchange 2003 as the ADSIEdit and DSACLS tools also work well (even with Exchange 2000).

Read it here:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/11/03/430350.aspx

Are books a thing of the past? The Microsoft Exchange team releases more and more in depth infomration regarding Exchange 2007 (not to mention the articles on this website). So, it makes me wonder: Why would anyone buy an outdated already on release Exchange 2007 book?

Any how a bit more on the filtering capabilies in Exchange 2007 here:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/25/429345.aspx

Centro is a sort of the new version of SBS, but possibly a bit more flexible, targeted to businesses with less than 250 computers. I always felt SBS was best for up to 25 ccomputers, the hardware and software too heavy for more, but now you would be able to build a mammoth 64-bit server with giga+ network card that would be able to support more coomputers. What about redundancy? There are answers to this in the hardware department (not cheap though) and Microsoft will no doubt have answers.

More about this and beta enrollment here:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevin_beares/archive/2006...k.aspx

A nice article on the MSExchange team blog regarding coexistence and new features of the Exchange 2007 availabiliy service.

Read about it here:

 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/23/429296.aspx

I am really happy with the new features of Exchange 2007 and am pretty anxious to deploy it with Office 2007 and will do so once both products are out. I will have to wait for Hebrew Office 2007 as for some reason people here prefer it over English.

I am already anxious to migrate myself and w

Really? Meetings are suddenly moved? The culprit here is again, as  I mentioned in a previous post, is the time zone settings.

Surprisingly enough, the fix for this is still not public, and can only be obtained from Microsoft PSS, albeit for free. Also, it seems that Microsoft is no longer writing fixes for Exchange 2003 SP1 and RTM but still writing crucial fixes for Exchange 5.5.

More information here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;...917481

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/20/429228.aspx

It appears that Tech ED Europe, due 14-17 November 2006 is sold out, but who needs these freebees and hotel pools when you can browse most of the material online anyways! 

Check it here:

http://www.mseventseurope.com/Teched/06/Pre/Live/D...F.aspx