Microsoft Strives to Make Exchange More Like an Appliance eWeek
July 21, 2006

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One of the major challenges and goals facing the development team working on Microsoft's Exchange Server, is how to make the e-mail, calendaring and messaging product more like those appliance products that make migration and operation far more automatic.

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"Companies of all sizes are going to need to consider how to implement e-mail servers to support the five different Exchange 2007 roles as opposed to the two or three in Exchange 2003," McCall said.

McCall added that, "those customers seeking highly available Exchange 2007 will need to consider applying two hardware servers to each of the five roles to cluster systems for redundancy and to reduce the impact to availability from the hundreds of patches Microsoft delivers a year."

Blade servers from HP or IBM, which support 14 server blades per BladeCenter chassis, would also increase in use when running Exchange in its various roles as a cost-effective way of addressing these challenges, McCall said.

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