Top IT Providers » Exchange http://www.topitproviders.net Your resource for managed IT & application development information Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:54:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2007 SP2…..not! http://www.topitproviders.net/index.php/2009/10/08/server2008r2_and_exchange2007sp2/ http://www.topitproviders.net/index.php/2009/10/08/server2008r2_and_exchange2007sp2/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:11:51 +0000 aleadbeater http://www.topitproviders.net/?p=150 Apparently Microsoft has decided not to support Windows Server 2008 R2 together with Exchange 2007 SP2. They recently posted a blog and sited two reasons for the exclusion:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2, while an incremental OS upgrade, creates significant testing requirements for Exchange 2007.Because the Exchange 2007 SP2 engineering preceded the Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM, Exchange 2007 SP2 would have had to be delayed significantly to align testing schedules.

2. Because upgrading the server OS underneath an existing Exchange server is not supported, the feedback we have received is that the primary need is to support Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers in an existing Exchange 2007 deployment, which we have done.

Although these are semi-legit reasons, the very fact that the major players for hardware (Dell, HP, IBM ) are shipping with R2 by default presents and interesting dilemma. So you have four choices: Reinstall the non-R2 OS, only install Exchange Sp1, use a non-supported configuration, or use Gmail. The choice is yours.

MS Blog posting:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/21/452567.aspx

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