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Vista and Exchange: Something for me, something for you
Posted: 9:43 am
August 17th, 2006
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Exchange, IT Business, Microsoft

Out of the sleezy marketing department I have a little tip for you on selling Vista: start giving out crack samples now. Until now Vista has mainly been an ITPro/Developer test which I am very happy to see is being handled rather well. They are now even releasing security patches for the Vista beta 2 so this might be a safer way to give the more suicidal/technical customers a preview of the next OS. We have a ton of clients that have technical people on staff and they have been looking for a chance to get into Vista but could not make it past the survey. Well, Microsoft has started a “quiz” for customers/individuals to get a free copy of Vista. Just answer a few marketing questions and Steve will ship you a free DVD. Raises brand awareness, raises the product above vapor and marketing and gives people a taste for features that they may not want to give up in the future.

You know what to do: I want a new drug..

On the slightly more professional side the Exchange team launched Exchange 2007 wiki. This is a place where we hope to collect a lot of tips and tricks about Exchange 2007 before it hits the streets. There is even an ask a question page where you can get your questions answered. I’m one of the admins so please keep it clean.

Gotta love a team that embraces all the emerging technologies to promote their product, unlike some that are still trying to figure out that email thing.Again, it just boils down to Exchange folks being superior as human beings, if you disagree feel free to email your lead  Yeah, it’s a cheap shot and an inside joke but now that SBS R2 is final I really have nothing to fight about with Susan.

11 Comments

Smitty |

Hey, we have Exchange on SBS too!



Jonah Ellis |

That site looks a little bare your own wiki has more info.



PenguinFan |

Thats a very good point about selling the OS. No matter how much the new one sucks they are bound to find features in it that they will not want to lose. You rock :)



Greg Buchanan |

Whats the deal with Exchange 2007 and SBS? Is that going to be an upgrade? R3?



Rick Wohleber |

And the head swells some more…

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“Again, it just boils down to Exchange folks being superior as human beings”



Ken |

Exchange guys do it better.



Pauly |

Faster too, msh baby!



vlad |

Greg,

Nope. SBS is 32bit, Exchange 12 will be 64bit only. Basically you’ll have to wait for SBS.next, whenever that eventually ships and with what is a huge question mark.

If you need it in the meantime you’ll likely have to license another server and throw it on top of that. Not to despair though, Exchange 12 GUI and wizards really put SBS to shame. And this product has the best damn documentation, support and labs than anything in the ITPRO world (yes, developers get a lot more love than we do but they also drive the platform purchases and rooting so if anyone needs to be happy its them)

-Vlad



Allen StClair |

The microsoft quiz is tricky. Not sure if I’m ready for the crack :)



David Overton |

Vlad,

of course the Exchange 2007 GUI and wizards put SBS to shame, they are being developed now, where as SBS 2003 shipped a long time ago. Where do you think the Exchange team learnt about the ideas for great wizards etc?

Although it has to be said that the Exchange team have always had an inflated view of their importance - I mean, the Exchange mgmt tool is called “System Manager” - no, it is not a system manager as people do use these systems for *other* things - the System Manager would be compmgmt.msc. The correct name for the tool should have been Exchange Manager ;-)

ttfn

David



vlad |

David,

I was thinking more along the lines of the response to the persons question about running Exchange 12 prior to the next SBS release, specifically if UM and other Enterprise CAL features are needed. Just the point that wizards are far better than what he has access to now and there is nothing to fear.

I beg to differ on the importance of “system manager” - nearly everyone views email as the system - for communications, file sharing, party planning, etc.

-Vlad



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