Exchange Server 2007 Nears eWeek
July 24, 2006

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Microsoft is hoping that the release of the public second beta of Exchange Server 2007 on July 24 will undo some of the harm caused by the limited-release first beta, which was feature-incomplete and provided little of the familiar Exchange GUI.

The lack of GUI led to the widespread belief that there would be significant training costs associated with learning the new command-line interface in Exchange Server 2007.

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"The new GUI from Microsoft for Exchange will be a welcome improvement from the old," and the fact that it is based on the Exchange Management Shell will allow ISVs to rapidly augment the GUI with their own enhancements, McCall said.

The GUI features a new, integrated wizard that walks IT administrators through the process of moving their users to the Exchange 2007 product from prior versions, McCall said.

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