The Sikh Geek

I’ve just been on a 2 day training course on Exchange Server 2007. This was a different world coming from the Small Business Environment. Much of the talk was of clustering, high availability, compliance (Sarbannes Oxley), archiving, network load balancing and security. Okay, so we’re not going to be deploying this in the average small business. I wanted to see the features that would be available in the next version of Small Business Server.

The administration is vastly improved and simplified from Exchange Server 2003 and you now have command line scripting! Yes, you heard right, something akin to ksh or bash (these are not my words but descriptions in the course material). After all these years berating the administration of Linux through scripts, Microsoft is now adopting this approach through PowerShell. I have to say most of the people on the course didn’t like it! I think it’s great!

The beta of Exchange Server 2007 is available if you want to try it out and it’s definitely worth trying. The Unified Messaging looks interesting but it’s not clear what PBX equipment is going to work with it. It’s about time they added standard SIP interoperability.