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Exchange is 10 years old!

Seems like yesterday that Exchange 4.0 hit the market. In March of 1996 Exchange 4.0 was released. I thought I would give you a link for the geeks among you that have been along for the ride and for those that go even further back to ALL-IN-ONE, MailWorks, cc:Mail, IBM PROFS etc.

 

ITPRO has a great look back if you're interested in taking a look back at the evolution of hardware, Exchange Clients, Mobile devices, OWA, etc.  http://www.windowsitpro.com/Common/adforceimages/Decade_of_exchange.pdf

 

It's been a whirl wind ride and now we are nearing Beta 2 of Exchange "12"! What will Exchange look like 10 years from now? What features would you want to see (hey why wait - ask for them now!). If Exchange 2016 was ready for release, what features would you be most excited by?

 

So, take a look back, reflect on where we have been, then put on your thinking caps and tell us what you want to see in the next release and the one after that!

 

- David Espinoza

Published Monday, April 24, 2006 11:17 AM by Exchange
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Monday, April 24, 2006 4:07 PM by Dan Sheehan

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I would be excited by having the ability to shut down external ListServ systems, because the Exchange transport servers would handle DL expansion, including members not in AD, and use a sharepoint website as the repository and even message clearing house.
Having to use an external system for List management seems to be so redundant these days, but Exchange today cannot provide all the features they do w/o third party add-ons which essentially are stand alone anyway.

It would also be nice to have the ability to se an Out of Office, and have that temporarily exclude you from non-mandated DLs. So mandated DLs would still come to your mailbox, but less important ones were temporarily unsubscribed.
Monday, April 24, 2006 4:29 PM by Jörg-Stefan

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Happy birthday - looking forward for the next 10 years!
Monday, April 24, 2006 6:17 PM by Brian Kronberg

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Have you seen Starship Troopers?  That is Exchange 2016.  Full video, personal databases, composed messages, and all searchable by the government.
Monday, April 24, 2006 7:06 PM by Eric

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I would look forward to the ability of Exchange 2016 to take care of all the annonying e-mail in my Inbox. Beam me up to Calendar appointments automatically, so I don't have to bother remembering to go to my meetings and do all the tasks I have in my task folder for me.
Monday, April 24, 2006 8:47 PM by Michael Edward Kohlman

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I would expect to see the complete elimination of the lines that currently exist between communications types (static text, IM, voice, scheduling, etc...) into single dynamic communications platform.  The beginnings of this are already starting to happen but until standardization between the way these various items talk to each other progress a true merger will be a ways off.

Server virtualization will be mainstream in 2016 and Exchange will be taking full advantage of that, running nearly as an OS in it's own right in single session virtual session.  Cluster awareness for Exchange will be no longer needed or neccessary in the sense that this will be handled by the underlying OS layer, which will handle the start/stoppage of virtual servers that hang or need to be taken offline.

Mail/IM/Voice/Scheduling stores will be both dynamic and replicated; with access to terabytes of storage becoming common-place an Exchange administrator will be able to designate multiple copies of database items replicated over multiple storage volumes over geographically disperse locations.  Load balancing will be acheived by best available/least cost methods, where the response to a data request will be handled by the system with the lowest load and latency times for that request.  Should a virtual Exchange server/data store drop offline, the other desginated servers that have replicates of the date will automatically step in to fill the request.

The client (Outlook) will continue to become thinner, very possibly becoming a framework that will load the neccessary code to the device in question (PDA/Phone/Laptop/Brain Implant?) to display the information that the device is capable of displaying, offering a more rich environment on more capable systems and a simpler interface on system of lean requirements.  Code updates will be loaded centrally to the Exchange environments and then pushed out to clients.

Hows that for start?

- MEK
Monday, April 24, 2006 9:02 PM by Mike

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Whitelists/blacklists for the IMF would be awesome.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:24 PM by Darren

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I would like an easy way to set up public folder calendars and be able to use them as resources when I do appointment scheduling.  Is there any way to do this now?  That way I don't have to set up a whole mailbox just for a shared calendar (e.g. meeting room calendar).  Makes it easier for people to check calendars too.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:47 PM by Jorge

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Bayesian filtering for the IMF also would be awesome.
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Monday, May 08, 2006 11:42 AM by AntGut

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Happy Bday. Kinda weird but this will probably be the first release that I don't test for some military/gov't agency.

Exch Kicks Ass

AntGut
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