Scott Schnoll (Sr. Technical Writer on the Microsoft Exchange team) posted an excellent article on his

I've been trying to be a good blogger and generate more of my own blog content but Scott Schnoll posted

Scott Schnoll posted a very interesting blog post on his blog, where he goes over some frequently asked...

Is there somewhere that can explain in more detail the various things the CAL's do and do not have included in them?  My understanding is that the fine print reads that the rights to use Outlook are no longer included in the Exchange CAL, yet I see no explicit mention of this on the MS web sites regarding the Exchange licensing FAQ's, etc.

Hi Scott, this 32bit / 64bit thing is VERY confusing! I just wrote an article for an german IT magazine and stated in this article, that there will only be one version of E2K7 and this is a 64bit version. Don't you think that MS will confuse its  customers with that? What shall I tell my customers when the ask me, "couldn't we also use a 32bit version of E2K7?"

Bernd Kruczek

Ex Exchange MVP

Writing for IT Administrator

Working for Computacenter, aka Compunet as Senior Consultant

bernd.kruczek@esbk.net

Scott Schnoll posted a very interesting blog post on his blog , where he goes over some frequently asked

Well, at least the basics are on this blog post for a start :-) Scott Schnoll spent new year's eve putting

Scott Schnoll posted a 'round-up' of questions on the RTM of Exchange 2007, including virtualization...

Excellent post Scott - very well-written and quite comprehensive!

Scott,

Excellent post, thanks.  One question though - can you clarify what you mean by "Notice that I said supported in production.  More on this in a bit"?

Does that mean the only "hard coded" difference between Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition is the database limit (50 vs 5), but Standard Edition wont actually stop you running an SCC or CCR?  I'm talking about x64 versions here (I know you already stated how it works with x86).

If SCC and CCR will work on Standard Edition x64, can you clarify what you mean by "not supported"?  What I'm getting at is - would a company be breaking their license agreement (and therefore breaking the law) if they ran a SCC/CCR on Standard Edition, or would they simply be unsupported (which is a different thing)?

Thanks,

David

VMware ESX 3.01 has supported 64 bit environments for a while including Windows 2003 x64 - which I'm currently running along with Exchange 2007.

VMWare 1.01 Free Server will also work just fine for your 64-bit OS and your 64-bit Exchange 2007. MS is little behind with virtualization at this point in time (that's just too bad) and Scott i;m affraid cannot tell you otherwise :)

I have deployed Edge, Hub, Cas, and CCR mailbox cluster all on one juicy Dell 64-bit machine with 8Gigs of RAM to go with that all behind ISA server 2006.

Scott

Do you know when is MS going to release 64-bit edition of ISA 2006?

Also how MS is going to license EDGE or HUB. After all those servers are just SMTP relays with more fancy IMF on them nothing else.

Thank you

Rob

Seems the core motivation for making a 64-bit version was to break through actual and perceived scalability issues.  Now, given that I don't think many companies put, on average, more than about 5,000 users per server on Exchange2003,  a lot the reasoning being the proverbials "eggs in one basket"---wouldn't it have been somewhat simpler, and more palatable to the Exchange customer base,  to ship a 32-bit version that was hard coded to top out at 5K users? Then if people wanted a server to scale higher they could go with the 64-bit version? Is there specific functionality in the E2K7 that is specifically dependent upon the 64-bit architecure beyond the database/storage groups?