Exchange 2010

Blogger: Bill Pray

The Exchange 2010 beta announcement yesterday became the first in a wave (as Microsoft calls it) of Microsoft Office 2010 (formerly Office 14) announcements for their collaboration products. The announcement highlighted two interesting enhancements for Exchange.

First, Microsoft is claiming rather obtusely in the announcement that they are providing "flexible deployment and management options." What they are really trying to say was better said in a blog by the Exchange team back in January - Exhange 2010 is built to be both an on-premise and a hosted solution. The Exchange team pointed out in that blog that Ray Ozzie's software plus services memo has driven them to attempt to build Exchange 2010 so that a single code base can meet the differing technical demands of the two delivery models.

Second, Exchange 2010 will include an e-mail archive. Adding e-mail archiving as a feature of the e-mail platform has been speculated about and considered for years. Exchange 2010 will finally make that leap, but it remains to be seen how far they will land. E-mail archiving has become more complex over the last few years as enterprise's have struggled with how to handle the legal, technical, and enterprise demands for e-mail content. These demands have been pushing e-mail into enterprise content management from previously siloed e-mail archive solutions.

Comments

[Saqib Ali]

Bill,

What is the distinction between the "exchange as a hosted solution" and "exchange in cloud"?

Thanks
Saqib