DVD-Only Distribution Planned for Exchange 12

Distribution media Exchange 12, will be devoted to the DVD, Microsoft announced in the blog posting Tuesday.

"Exchange rate is likely to first product, only to switch DVD, but we did not do so, if there is no good reason, and not carefully weigh the pros and cons," Chan Ka-keung lemson , the Project Manager with Exchange Server team, wrote on the Exchange blog.

Main reason to switch to DVD is the large number of Text-to-Speech engine, need unified messaging, this is a very important new features of the exchange 12. "The engine allows you to call your server on your phone, and read your e-mail and appointments by telephone to you," lemson wrote. "We estimate that the final size of each language of these engines¡­ will be around 200 megs and our work process, including as many languages as possible, we can." A standard CD-ROM can hold about 650-700 MB of data. The single DVD can hold about seven times more data as a standard CD-ROM.

Microsoft also announced that the DVD will be in demand over the past year, to the customer in advance of the time, in order to ensure that they have a DVD drive can be installed in the Exchange 12 or copy the file to a network share. Lemson According to the blog postings, and feedback than Microsoft blog, and through other channels. Customers have told Microsoft they are rarely installed in the media, lemson said: "We have heard time and time again that a common practice is to copy the data from the media to a network share, from the desktop, and install Each of the server network¡­ [e] ven Today, it is difficult to find an organization, not a single DVD drives, a machine connected to the network can perform this one-time operation. "

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