Announcing Exchange 14

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Jan 13th @ 2:00 PM | 103,628 Views | 28 Comments

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I recently had the opportunity to meet with KC Lemson and Jim Lucey to talk about Exchange 14. Jim talked in depth about Exchange Labs and how we use that to do large scalability testing of Exchange - we currently host 3.5 Million mailboxes on Exchange Labs. Jim also gives a brief demo of the user experience, showing how you have access to your mail and calendar via Outlook, the browser, or your mobile phone.

This video is the first in a series covering what's new in Exchange 14, check back over the coming months to see what else is new in the product.

Tags: Exchange, exchange 14, exchange labs, Top 10

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shahzad

Dear KC and Jim & Adam,

Thank you very much for sharing this information with us. This video idea is great. I am keen to find out about any changes in the back end architecture that drives this scalability and high availability for 3.5 million mailboxes. Also, what is new with regards to integration with MOSS or OCS? Any improvements in the ActiveSync? What's in there for the Hosted Exchange Service Providers?

Regards,

Shahzad

gallwapa

One question - roadmap release date? I can't find any info on this. 2010? Early 2010? Our org doesn't have EA/SA (we're on select for Education) and CALs are a central concern. That means we'd have to repurchase CALs if we do our Groupwise -> Exch. conversion soon.

Jon Galloway

In reply to markatcit

#Jan 16th @ 12:13 PM

I'd like to hear about support for OWA in non-IE browsers, too, especially Firefox and Google Chrome. Are you building standards compliant web experiences this time around, or is it all still ActiveX under the hood?

Nitish Agrawal

Really great!!!!

But I have couple of questions regarding the exchange databases, log files transaction. Can you please revert back to me.

MLCarter1976
Me with a bit of purple

In reply to Goran Topalovic

#Jan 13th @ 4:02 PM

I agree with Goran. I am a HUGE Microsoft fan and to see it go "COMMAND LINE" AKA UNIX / LINUX makes me scared. I do best with visual and graphics and GUI! I got into Microsoft with DOS but wasn't "into it" because I couldn't REMEMBER all those COMMANDS! I do surprisingly well remembering WHERE things are and screens and HOW I Got there..."ahh ya, that's right, I clicked here... this looks familiar..." I remember in my MCSE training, I could NOT get global and universal groups, (in the book being taught it) but when I saw it in "live" I totally got it and the system helped me too by saying "hey you need to have a universal group here...." So if you could STOP with PowerShell or Power#&(( it will be great as I do NOT use it as much if at all! I do like that you have some cut and paste features but for me.... what will Exchange 14 do with OUT powershell and or with PowerShell 2.0 will I see LESS Command Line and MORE GUI! (PLEASE!!)

Vamsi Krishna

Being an announcement feel that it would have been more in detail... waiting for upcoming posts, hope we do have more information in those Smiley

KevinRemde

I heard that we now have over 6 million mailboxes running on Exchange 14 pre-beta. Former "ExchangeLabs" (now called Outlook.com - which is used to support schools through Live@Edu program) mailboxes are all on the new product. Is that amazing, or what?

Goran Topalovic

In reply to MLCarter1976

#Apr 7th @ 4:44 AM

Also, I agree with you Carter. Not just it is hard to remember those commands, but it takes more time to finish a certain task. My clients are paying me hourly, and I tend to finish more job for less amount of time, not for less $ amount. Without GUI that is not possible.

My subjective opinion based on my personal experience.

Goran Topalovic

In reply to underlig

#Jan 16th @ 9:31 AM

I must correct myself considering backup. For the Exchange 2007 SP02 on Windows 2008 it is possible to backup up an application, in this case an Exchange, and afteward there is a possibility to restore that application without a need to restore complete volume.
Just wait for SP02 Exchange 2007.