Has someone tried this one? According to description should be pre pidded.... Did a test install and no pre pidding... 119 days remaining.... Anybody have any idea? Update: Tried again with same result. Update: OK Googled it seeing many others having same issue.
Wait for zwtiso release and the use the VLK from that one until then use the remaining evaluation time ...
MS f-ed up and didn't post the keys online it looks like... PID built in, I was like how do you build in a PID for something that licensed by the key... I thought they were going to pull a fast one and make a certain version for technet/msdn that was crippleware.
I have to say Exchange 2010 is the best version of Exchange yet. I work with 2003, 2007 and 2010 on a daily basis, and I have to say 2010 is the best. Exch 2003 sucks its like the XP of exchange, everyone implemented it and now they are too lazy to migrate off of it even though it is out of life cycle and way the f**k out of date. It won't work correctly with Outlook 2007 (gives a MAPI connection limit reached when you have a big mailbox), doesn't support large mailboxes (you are lucky if you can live with a 1gb MBX on Exch 2k3), no Live migration feature so you have to disconnect a mailbox before moving it, OWA f**king sucks, it looks and acts like s**t. Doesn't support SSL in a non-frontend backend config. You are only relegated to either a front or backed server, no being able to choose what roles you want on a server. Exch 2k7 - Very good, but still doesn't compare to Exch 2k10, nothing lacking in Exch 2k7 though, just stuff not implemented like live migration and online archiving. OWA works like a web client should, minus the fact that you have to use IE, but still it is an improvement over OWA 2k3. Exch 2010 - the best release to date. DAGs are a big thing, as well as full OWA support in FF and Safari (sorry Google Chrome). ECP is a big improvement over the old functionality which was non-existent in Exchange 2k3 and was ok in 2k7. Live mailbox move. Clients connect to the CAS server no matter what now, so the days of MAPI sessions being reached is long gone and this ensures future interoperability with older clients such as Outlook 2003 and Entourage.
From what I´ve seen from 2010 so far I definitely agree with your list. One thing that would have made life a little easier with smaller implementations would have been ability to do an in place upgrade 2007 -> 2010. Especially considering how many companys waited long before jumping to 2007 that option would have been helpfull in pushing a 2010 upgrade. I dont see (at least yet) why that option is not possible or how well we´d eventually be able to get around it.