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Published Friday, April 07, 2006 9:06 AM by Exchange
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Friday, April 07, 2006 5:38 PM by jeff honey

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

No, I'm not ready for E12. I cannot install a 64-bit OS and run my existing Exchange 2003 server. When E12 comes out, I cannot run it on my current 32-bit OS server. Catch-22. I will have to do some interesting sleight-of-hand to upgrade to E12. On that note alone, I say *phooey* on E12. I have no upgrade path other than to completely wipe an existing server for E12 or purchase new hardware. Neither choice is palatable.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:44 PM by Aaron Hall

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

I'd love to test it out... if Microsoft is willing to provide a test server to go with it. I agree with the other poster, the down side of you guys going 64bit only with this release is that we have limited means to test a deployment right now.

I, on the other hand, do have plans to upgrade to 64bit by the end of 2007, but until then there's little chance of it being a reality for me.
Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:21 PM by Rob Mallicoat

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

Looking for someone to assist with the installation of E12 CTP1 x86...  I have MMC3.0 installed but the setup.exe keeps telling me that its not installed, go download and install it..  somewhat frustrating to say the least!
Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:13 PM by Exchange

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

Rob, please see this:

http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2006/03/23/422962.aspx
Friday, April 14, 2006 11:35 AM by -Eleanor Hatem

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

I am ready for Exchange 12. I budgeted for New Hardware for Q4 FY2006. and have budgeted for disks for the SAN.

Have been doing all the webcasts and will be at TechEd and have signed up the hands on Exchange 12 course.

I was a DECie and seeded many of the 64-bit Alphas. Been waiting for 64-bit.


Friday, April 14, 2006 11:45 AM by KC Lemson

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

Eleanor - can you ping me at kclemson AT microsoft DOT com?
Monday, April 24, 2006 3:56 PM by Guillaume Groen

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

We are running on 64bit hardware for quite a while but the applications that run on 64bit software are aren't that widespread.
When exchange 12 is available we will be upgrading.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:01 AM by Jason Sherry

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

To: jeff honey

There is not a direct upgrade path to E12.  Exchange 2003 does not support W2k3 64 Bit.

The upgrade parth to E12 is to install a new E12 Mailbox server in the existing, or new Admin Group, and move the mailboxes from the E2k3 server to the new E12 server.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:18 PM by Lance Wilson

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

I too am eagerliy awaiting Exchange 12.  I will also be attending TechEd and the hands on lab for 12...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:27 AM by Peter Silks

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

Is Exchange "12" going to require a SQL license?  One of the other IT guys swears that it is.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:52 AM by kclemson

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

Peter - absolutely not true. Have whoever thinks this please contact me if they'd like - kclemson AT microsoft DOT com.
Sunday, April 30, 2006 8:59 PM by Joe Cool

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

just move the DB files and go?
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:09 PM by Eric Thompson

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

I am VERY excited about the Fax Server portion. We are just about to invest in a third party fax server and I would love to wait and put in x64. Unfortuantely for large organization like us we have blade or card server solutions so we will have to put exhange on a stand alone x64. But 64 is the way to go.  
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:29 PM by kclemson

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

Eric - would love to hear more from you about your thoughts on e12. Please drop me a line at kclemson AT microsoft DOT com.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:11 PM by Worth Norton

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

I'm past ready! Does anyone know if we can host multible domains on one Exchange 12 server?
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:11 PM by Worth Norton

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

I'm past ready! Does anyone know if we can host multiple domains on one Exchange 12 server?
Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:48 PM by James Marcellus

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

I am ready for Exch. 2007 My question to Microsoft is will this version allow us to run exchange servers in rudundance without a 3rd party app and not running in cluster mode? That would be great
Friday, May 05, 2006 1:12 PM by Tony Engel

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

We are in the process of installing E12 CTP on an Intel x64 system and found something in the documentation that says the UM can only run on a 32 bit system.  Is that right or a typo?  [fingers crossed with hopes it runs on x64]
Friday, May 05, 2006 1:26 PM by KC Lemson

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

Tony - it's correct, but it's temporary. UM uses some codecs from third parties and we weren't able to get 64bit versions of those codecs in time for Beta 1. That has since been addressed in a later build. So if you are going to use x64 OS, you'll need two machines for now in order to test the CTP.
Monday, May 08, 2006 5:06 PM by Adrian Romo

# re: Are you ready for Exchange 12?

What about upgrading a cluster?  Can you add an x64/Exchange 2007 server to an existing 2003 cluster?  Otherwise it's going to be difficult to come up with another 1/2 TB of SAN storage just to migrate.  
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