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• link to new lineup details? : hamachi
• I just discussed this with my old job today. Exchange 2010 won't be on anything in house for at least the... : Phreakin
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  We just upgraded to Exchange 2007 (from Exch2000) last year. There's no way we'll be upgrading again any... : Ride-My-Rocket
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    Also, we're still running Office 2003 and maybe 1-2 clients with Office 2000. It's not worth it (to us) ... : Ride-My-Rocket
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      So no autodiscover for you or cached mode? : Phreakin
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        Autodiscover is more pain than it's worth. : yonderboy
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          How? Add a couple of DNS records and you're good to go. : Phreakin
          • i can say second hand that it doesn't necessarily scale well in a very large global organization without ... : jwnin
    • Extended Support for the Office 2003 ends January 14, 2014. : metalremains
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    How do you like 2007? I had a vendor tell us it was crap, but then again, those guys were full of shit wi... : vov1n
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      It's a damn sight better than Exchange 2000. However, the management console is a fucking resource hog. ... : Ride-My-Rocket
      • Also, built-in support for managing public folders is garbage. Complete and utter garbage. : Ride-My-Rocket
      • Agreed it's super slow. I found limiting the amount of mailboxes it shows to say, 100 or 200, and just s... : scan
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  Question: How many companies have started rolling out Office 2007? How is the new interface going over wi... : spiffymc
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    I just tell my users to get used to it and stfu. : mancide
    • ^^^ this. : brainchild420
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    We rolled it out last year to 1200+ users along with Exchange 2007 and besides the initial whining, every... : Phreakin
    • same. the 15 min "OMG WTF" wears off surprisingly quickly. then it's "hmmm everything is up there in a p... : Downforce
  • I put it out to a small company of 27 people. Almost everyone loved the new interface even though it was ... : hirosushima
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    We rolled it out to ~4000 users a year+ ago and had very few complaints. Once we told everyone to "forget... : radicus
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      holy shit, If I told my users to forget what they know it'd be like the beginning of 2001 :( : hawkeye
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        they'd be a bunch of apes grunting and screaming at each other? : pukerat
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          Exactly :(
          
          They'd just start banging at the keyboards and throwing rocks...so not a huge step backwards from where we are now, but a significant one

          May 05, 2009 10:37am PDT
          Exactly :( They'd just start banging at the keyboards and throwing rocks...so not a huge step backward... : hawkeye
  • Most users hate it, 2003 is by far in demand, had a couple of people ask to have 2007 removed also. : abrasion
  • 8,000 users here, all laptops. After an reorientation bump, the response has been overwhelmingly positiv... : eldersveld
  • Right now I'm the only one in my company actively using Office 2007, and that's because I need to demo Sh... : zerog83
  • We rolled it out for the sharepoint support, it has worked out great. : nomaad
  • I'm forcing it out to a lot of SMB clients we have - it takes a week of getting used to and in the case o... : xsoulbrothax
  • We rolled it out this year, and there have been minimal issues. What's really dumb though is that our ... : fleabug
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  We are going straight to Exchange 2010 (14) here. We just went to 2007 this past year. : mancide
  • Yeah, my previous job did a full 64bit overhaul and the whole 2007/2008 suite, and it was vastly improved... : Downforce
  • how is that 'straight to 2010'? Also,get ready to buy swing servers, can't do an upgrade in place... : jwnin
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  All my workstations are P4 2.4GHz with super slow hard drives, 512MB RAM, and 17" LCDs. It sucks. They ... : hawkeye
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    $350 for a new Compaq Presario ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883109029 ) and ma... : Ride-My-Rocket
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      I can get Dell Optiplex's for about $500 each but the problem is upgrading 30 workstations. $15,000 we d... : hawkeye
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        See if they'll give you a quantity discount? : Ride-My-Rocket
        • They will but it's not enough : hawkeye
  • seriously :( 5400rpm drives with a MONSTER pagefile that's constantly thrashing because people have 7 ap... : Downforce
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  So it's not just me with the Win7 SSD fantasy. I just have it in my mind that in about 3 years time, a... : abrasion
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    The manageability stuff that 2008/Vista/Win7 have really has me excited. : hawkeye
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      I know it's sad but the re-boot times (and less re-boots) gets me excited, working on users shitty machin... : abrasion
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        i put myself on a shitbox cause i am apparently the only one here who doesn't get offended at having to r... : cpt_gloval
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          my shitbox was a 2ghz p4 with 512 of RAM for a while :) oh yeaaa : xsoulbrothax
          • for the first couple years here, i was on a 800MHz P3 with 768MB. : cpt_gloval
        • I need a boatload of RAM for the super bloated SQL tools and Visual Studio : hawkeye
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      we're about to switch to a Server 2008 domain controller, and getting ready to roll out with WIndows 7. T... : zerog83
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        You serious? Roll out Windows 7?! How big is your organisation and do you already have Vista or have you ... : abrasion
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          He has probably been doing testing with the Windows 7 beta and RC : OverloadUT
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            ^^^ Windows 7 behaves wonderfully on a domain :) : zerog83
            • Agreed, we've had 0 problems on ours : chiisu81
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          Only a few of us here have Windows Vista right now. We're not going to go replacing Windows XP on all of ... : zerog83
          • Oh that's not how bigger organisations work at all - smaller shop I gather or a place with a heck of a lo... : abrasion
      • Very nice. I'm just excited to be deploying a Win2008 / SQL2008 dev server. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  2000? hah more like office 97! : RobFlinn
  • it's funny, management gets new cars in shorter intervals than business infrastructure upgrades. : Downforce
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    we still use word 97 here :( : Affliated
    • TBH, I'm not sure I'd know the difference. Outlook 2007 is a nice improvement over 2003, but I probably ... : Ride-My-Rocket
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  I'm having a hard enough time getting my people to upgrade from their Optiplex GX 240's. . . : goatjc
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    hahah, Optiplex GX270's here *high-five* : hawkeye
    • Ahh I hate these fucking GX270s the fucking motherboards on them keep dying. We have a new one every few ... : angrytaxman