Yes, but are the disk IO performance gains not achieved by adding 10's of GB of RAM?? Which could be as (or more) expensive as disk!

The link doesn't seem to be working for me I get a "download not found message"

me too :(

I get "Download not found" error as well. The link to order the DVD is working though.

Ordered my copy whilst waiting for the download to be published!

me too :-( and i have problems with the link to order the DVD. When I try this i will redirected to the Microsoft Mainpage

I am having the same issues.  I'm sure it will be resolved sooner rather than later...

Great! You guys rock!

Bink.nu states 12.01am pdt as lanuch so prehaps we just need to learn a bit of patience.

BigFish: it's true that adding, say, 10GB of RAM to your server is more expensive than buying a small quantity of disks. However, for servers that are currently using SANs (and there are a lot of them! especially as iSCSI is more widely adopted), it's no contest: buying RAM is almost always *much* cheaper than buying more SAN disks, and enclosures, and storage shelves, and maintenance agreements, and, and, and...

This is the English link, I found it in the download search (go figure!).

http://tinyurl.com/f4skz

Was able to download both x68 and x86 English versions so I believe it may be up and running now...

As for the RAM issue, one thing to keep in mind is that with the typical 2-4 gig of RAM, one should still see some performance gains.  However for those with much larger environments and/or the ability to swing the cost, it is nice to have the option of adding large amounts of memory to realize substantial performance improvements rather than having to invest in the cost of additional servers (and licenses) to realize the same improvement.

- MEK

I'd much rather buy more RAM and reduce the number of spindles I need to support the same (or higher) IOPS load *and still have my users get a better experience that feels faster*.

Does anyone know what "additional resources" are in the DVD-ordered version of Beta 2, compared to just downloading the Beta directly?

Kudos to Microsoft .. really needed this local and remote replication technology years ago. Better late than never though.

Now to see how easy it is to flip from the live to the DR server over the weekend to validate DR tests..

Paul, thanks for your comments. Would be interesting to see some ROI figures which compares. But as ever it's hard to quantify these things as hardware vendors vary so much...and depending on who pays for  the study...I guess Benjamin Disraeli expressed it beautifully... http://tinyurl.com/ob8bv

Time to invest my portfolio in RAM companies ;)

Stonerware,

There are two additional discs that ship in the DVD Kit:
- Video Demos CD
- Hands-On Labs DVD

Here’s the list of the labs that are on the DVD:

- Installing a New Exchange Server 2007 Exchange Server
- Using the Exchange Server 2007 Management Console and Shell
- Administering Exchange Server 2007 Roles and Mailboxes
- Exchange Server 2007 Compliance and Retention
- Remote Client Access with Exchange Server 2007
- Using Exchange Server 2007 Local Continuous Replication
- Using Exchange Server 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication
- Configuring an Exchange Server 2007 Edge Server

Now that Beta 2 is out, does anyone know if there's been any talk of RC1 ship dates ?

Carl - give the team a break, they just got Beta 2 out on schedule and I am sure RC1 depends on the bugs that are reported from Beta 2 and subsequent builds.  The listed ship dates should suffice for now of late 2006 / early 2007.

Now that Beta 2 is out, does anyone know how it will be able to use the beta version of Exchange 2007?

Is there a list of changes/what's new in this version of PowerShell for Exchange 2007 beta 2?

Yeah...still can't download Exchange Beta 2

Nevermind.  I got it.

The beta 2 SDK documentation is a little vague when it comes to the new web services API.  This is my main reason for downloading and testing exchange 2007.  Are there any simple demos or code examples anywhere??  Say, just connecting to the webservice and retrieving a list of items in a folder or something like that?

I might be missing something obvious, but how do I submit a bug report?

I've been to Connect, but the Feedback link in the Exchange 2007 Beta 2 connection just loops back to the main Exchange 2007 Beta 2 connection page...

Anthony Copson,

Thanks - I have pinged people that run Connect for Exchange 2007 B2 to look into this!

OK, the authentication problem on the Connect site should be resolved now. Please try again to file a bug and post back here if it still does not work. Thanks!

Bug reporting is working like a dream now.

Thanks for the quick response!

In Organization Configuration->Hub Transport->Send Connectors->Network->Smart Host, the ability to forward to a smart host on a specific port appears to have been removed (it was present in Exchange 2000 and 2003).

There are quite a few installations of 2000/2003 that forward to a smart host running on the local machine, and thus require the ability to forward to a port other than 25.  Requiring that the smart host be installed on a different machine will mean that these installations will not be upgraded to Exchange 2007.

Excuse me, Exchange 2007 does have the above functionality, it is just not in the MMC interface as of beta 2:

Set-SendConnector "local" -Port 97

Exchange 2007 gets stuck at 70% during the 'preparing organization' phase.

Error in setup logs:
[ERROR] Microsoft Exchange can't connect to the Queue Viewer server on computer "localhost". Verify if the Microsoft Exchange Transport Service is started.

Any clues whats going on?

Mayur,

Please head over to our forums for stuff like this:

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=235&SiteID=17

I'm an MCSE, supported and installed smaller and larger Exchange 5.5/2000/2003 Exchange server environments, and I got to say it...
I don't like where Exchange 2007 is going.

Microsoft products got to be where they are not because they are bug free and secure. They got there because of the friendly GUI, user and administrator expiriance and relative simplicity.
With Exchange 2007 those factors are going away, and the only reasons that corporations will consider to upgrade is the support lifecycle of Exchange 2003. I don't think that the new Exchange features are going to have such a large factors on the decission makers when it comes to spend a lot of money for new 64bit servers and new 64bit Windows server software and of course client access licenses.

Heard of the term "calendar concierge"? Look up http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/07/24