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MSG 205: Introducing Exchange 2007

I'd love to recap this session, but I can do better than that.

Check out the webcast of the session here.

In summary, there are a lot of serious changes in Exchange 2007. Ones that are going to affect the way we look at Exhcnage's place in the corporate IT environment and it will be an uphill battle to "take over" some of the operations that have been traditionally handled by other groups within IT.

Do I think there is a good business case? Well, that all depends on MSFT's ability to deliver on some of the things they are showing. I predict adoption of 2007 will be slow as companies grapple with the thought of having to change what they are used to.

That's the interesting point. What we are used to is so vastly broken, yet we have come to accept its inferior ways. Ex07 presents the first hints of true unified messaging. One inbox, one common interface, across every platform out there. Ubiquitous access to your information.

In the end, Exchange 2007 is shaping up to be a truly next-generation infrastructure piece of a company. From phone, to fax, to email, to archiving, storage, clients -- the list goes on. What an amazing piece of software. Now we have to try and sell it to management, not on the merits of how great it is to have all of this together (finally), but on its ability to deliver all of this at a lower cost than the broken, yet accepted, systems of today.