I love Roy Osherove's thoughts on unit testing, so this is rather off-topic but he got exchange running overnight.
This is the whole microsoft schtick. Easy to install.
It's supposed to be a giant, enterprise mail program. I'm only going to install it once every 5 years hopefully. I don't care that someone who hasn't used it before can set it up in 6 hours.
I'm perfectly happy to have that sort of simple install option, bt from what I've seen it comes at the expense of ease of maintenance and automation, which are what I really want out of enterprise products.
Also it's a several thousand dollar program as I recall, and pretty much requires a dedicated machine. Is installing an expensive, resource intensive, "enterprise class" mail server (that you now have to backup, maintain, and keep updated) reall the easiest way to synchronize mail and contacts?
I'm not sure exactly what the requirements are, but I think I do this with a one-line rsync command...;-)
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