Exchange 12 Notes

First of all, thanks to all of you who made your way to our TS2 presentation. Hopefully you enjoyed the show and my Exchange presentation demystified IMF v2 for you a little bit. I am sure the next quarter’s presentation will have fresh installs of SP2 for Exchange and SharePoint so I don’t have to freestyle. We’re taking the feedback in the Orlando IT Pro group for JJ Antequino (Microsoft Presenter) so please post if you think they can imporove in some way.

I will be posting an updated list of clarifications, corrections, etc as promised. There are over a hundred folks out there and I have a jammed inbox. I promise I will get to you tomorrow.

In the meantime, here is some cool reading material. Steven Bink has attended Microsofts IT Forum 2005 in Barcelona and below are his random notes on Exchange 12 which was heavilly discussed during their seminars. Steve has really nailed down everything they said about E12, down right to the video.

Role based deployment:Egde, Mailbox, Routing, client Access etc. So no more need of OWA files or pub folders on all servers
50 Storage Groups total
50 databases total
Page size from 4k -> 6k
IO and large Mem optimized
Target 5MB RAM /user
Full commandline support (Monad)
ESM completly re-written from scratch
90% of new code is managed code
Faster server startup
No more STM files!
14 day dumpster by default
Enable Large, low cost mailboxes
E12=0.25 IO/sec (Ex2k3 1.0)

Logfiles limit 2 billion
Low impact fast re-index
Multi mailbox search
Works with OL and OWA and Mobile Outlook
Local continuous backup, no tape needed
Remote continuous backup
Reduced TCO
Fast recovery (minutes)
No more PST’s! expensive, legal risk.
Managed email folders, corporate assigned folders
Outlook Voice Access
Branding: Demo’s used Beta1 named Exchange 2007
Binaries are version 8!
Only 64 bit, reported 1st by Bink.nu few months ago 🙂
No active/active cluster support
No more OMA support
NTTP?
Last version with public folders
Access intranet and files outside the office without VPN

Update: Page size is actually being upgraded from 4k to 8k according to the ESEdev team reply to this post.