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Exchange Server 2007 Migration: Look Before You Leap




September 15, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 6)
While Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 offers a range of benefits over previous versions, many organizations are intimidated by the complexities of setting up and managing the new platform. Armed with a little knowledge of the added capabilities—and a lot of planning and design preparation—enterprises can dramatically reduce the headaches associated with configuring, integrating and managing an Exchange Server 2007 environment.

Organizations considering a move to Exchange Server 2007 are probably aware of its numerous improvements to security, reliability and scalability. Those benefits, however, come with increased complexity. In fact, experts say some of the very things that make Exchange Server 2007 more reliable and easier to use also make it more difficult to set up and manage.

Rand Morimoto, president of Convergent Computing, cited PowerShell and Exchange Management Console as two new administrative tools that will ultimately simplify Exchange Server 2007 usage and management. But because those tools differ markedly from anything administrators might have used in the past, many IT teams are struggling to get used to them, Morimoto said.

Exchange Server 2007 also introduces a role-based setup architecture that offers installation flexibility, letting administrators make better use of hardware by targeting roles without draining system resources. Administrators can deploy the server roles individually on dedicated hardware or install multiple roles on the same physical server, with the roles administered as separate entities.

“With previous versions of Exchange, administrators were forced to install the entire Exchange product on a server, even though they only needed certain features,” said Jim Lucey, senior technical product manager of the Microsoft Exchange Server team. “With Exchange Server 2007, administrators can install on a role-by-role basis—for example, mailbox, client access, hub transport, edge transport and Unified Messaging. If administrators only need to deploy a hub transport server or a client access server, they can do so without the need to run additional roles. [But] because Unified Messaging is a new role with Exchange Server 2007, it has a higher learning curve for Exchange administrators.”

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