Exchange 12 will ship on DVD

Happy blogoversary to us, happy blogoversary to us...

You Had Me At EHLO... — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:05:36 GMT

It's that time of year again... the third annual blogoversary of the exchange product team blog! And...

re: Exchange 12 will ship on DVD

kclemson — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:43:17 GMT

Well, like I said, we're talking about this over a year in advance. There have been some rough dates mentioned in articles in the press too.

re: Exchange 12 will ship on DVD

NickW — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:31:11 GMT

I imagine it's fair to say that customers will have a DVD drive somewhere in the network, and so is it really a problem to pursue installation from an administrative share location? Media seems to be changing from final installation source to supply channel, with more and more software supplied via download (and god forbid - bittorrent) these days.

My question is - what is the approximate timeframe for when this DVD will ship with it's lovely lovely contents?

Exchange, Windows, SPS, LCS, Live Meeting, Security, MIIS, Misc.

Windows Server Clustering — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:55:47 GMT

re: Exchange 12 will ship on DVD

Brad C. — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:44:27 GMT

DVD drives can be had for less than $20 at every geek's favorite hardware site (newegg), so I can't imagine the cost is a factor for anyone. For $65, I'd expect 3 DVD-ROM drives or a decent DVD burner.

Exchange 12 ONLY on DVD

Justin T Ho - www.justinho.com — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:19:32 GMT

re: Exchange 12 will ship on DVD

Jason M — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:26:28 GMT

There is a good idea, download a DVD sized image? Some people don't have a OC3 available to them. Better yet, try to build a server farm and network infrastructure to handle hundreds(if not thousands) of clients trying to download said images. Its cheaper for MS to ship them, and a lot less headaches for us. Go spend the $80 or so to buy a dvd drive and copy it where you need it.

I am just glad I won't have to sit and feed the server CDs.

re: Exchange 12 will ship on DVD

John M — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:05:30 GMT

Let's see, you'll spend 1000's of dollars on an e-mail system to run your company, but not a few bucks to have a DVD drive handy - go figure.

Glad to hear that MS has moved to DVD, although putting the other languages on a diff DVD might be wise, for those of us that don't need 'as many languages as possible'

Vous avez des lecteurs DVD sur vos serveurs?

VANNESTE Xavier — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:43:32 GMT

re: Exchange 12 will ship on DVD

Adam Gates — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:12:30 GMT

I still say yall should just sell a link and then let us burn it to whatever media we choose.
Save money on the marketing people making up a snazzy box for it to ship in, save money on shipping, and I know those neat hologram DVDs arent cheap.
Also, you could get everyone a copy the day it is ready... you wouldn't have to wait for the factory to print a 100,000 DVDs first.
CD? DVD? quit being so 1998ish :-D