21/12/2013
What’s been removed from Exchange
Server 2010?
As always, as new features come, old
features go. There are inevitably a few that
have found themselves on the "deprecated
list" this time around, and so will not be
continued in Exchange Server 2010 and
beyond. Since this is a much shorter list than
the "new features", we’ll start here:
There are some major changes in
Exchange Server clustering: in Exchange
Server 2007 you had LCR (Local
Continuous Replication), CCR (Cluster
Continuous Replication) and SCR
(Standby Continuous Replication) - three
different versions of replication, all with
their own management interfaces. All
three are no longer available in Exchange
Server 2010.
Windows Server Fail-over Clustering has
been removed in Exchange Server 2010.
Although seriously improved in Windows
Server 2008, a lot of Exchange
Administrators still found the fail-over
clustering complex and difficult to
manage. As a result, it was still prone to
error and a potential source of all kinds of
problems.
Storage Groups are no longer available in
Exchange Server 2010. The concepts of a
database, log files and a checkpoint file
are still there, but now it is just called a
Database. It’s like CCR in Exchange
Server 2007, where you could only have
one Database per Storage Group.
Due to major reengineering in the
Exchange Server 2010 databases, the
Single Instance Storage (SIS) is no longer
available. This means that when you send
a 1 MB message to 100 recipients, the
database will potentially grow by 100 MB.
This will surely have an impact on the
storage requirements in terms of space,
but the performance improvements on the
Database are really great. I’ll get back on
that later in this article.