I seem to have some to a bit of a halt with the roll out of Exchange Server 2007. Yes, I’ve attended the roadshows and read the forums, blogs and newsgroups and yes I was built up into a frenzy to upgrade from Exchange Server 2000 but now it’s installed and I have some ‘guinea pig’ users running it I’m left wondering … what now?

It’s probably me more than the software but, other than OWA, the users don’t really seem to have noticed any real difference - which - considering the financial committment we placed with the product is a bit of a surprise.

I think I was hoping for some kind of new or whizzy functionality like built-in SPAM filter, etc. Unified Messaging also seems further away than ever as I understand their is some incompatibility between Exchange Server 2007 and our VOIP solution. Only one user has a PDA so the ActiveSync function isn’t really in use either. From the clients point of view upgraded them from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003 but the differences they notice aren’t really attributable to Exchange Server 2007 but more to outlook itself.

Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not complaining about the product but I am wondering where all the cool new functionality is … perhaps I need to read a few more newsgroups.