Microsoft has released a couple of exciting new items related to Exchange. First is the release of a Vista compatible version of the Exchange System Manager for managing Exchange Server 2003.
Second, Microsoft has released some guidelines around virtualization support for Exchange Server 2007. Initially as you may know, MS was not supporting virtualization of Exchange except for testing. Now MS is supporting it assume that the hypervisor platform has been certified in the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). Of course at this point the only certified hypervisor is Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 but the program shows that other hypervisors are planning to be test. But no don't expect that VMWare will be in the mix anytime soon.
Read through the support policies for virtual Exchange servers carefully. There is a lot of information here. Some highlights though.
- Supported only on Hyper-V
- Guest VM must run Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2007 SP1
- Must used fixed size VHDs
- No support for the UM server role
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