2007 End of Life, Almost…

Exchange 2007 is beyond the Standard support life cycle of Microsoft. With that in mind, we have to ensure that we continue to support the most redundant and supported platform(s) we can. Continuing to provide Exchange 2007 has been more of a courtesy to not put the burden of migrations on our partners because that’s something we always pride ourselves in. If we can avoid costing you time, we will, every time.

However, as we saw with Australia the 2007 technology just does not offer the level of redundancy we like to provide to our clients, so we have to make some changes to ensure that we’re providing the redundancy you and your clients deserve. As such, we’ll be migrating all users off of Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, and Europe. We will be providing an opportunity to remain on 2007 on Dewey in an as is format. We’ll support it, but the recovery process due to an outage is not going to resemble what we can offer on the 2010 clusters.

If you have clients that need to remain on 2007 please reach out to me or my team within the support portal so we can start keeping a record of exclusions. Unless you’re on DEWEY and want 2007 you’ll be migrating.

We are going to make the migration process as easy as we can. So far we have have it down to (if you have an autodiscover record) all you have to do is click “Repair” within outlook and run a tool we’ll provide and that’s it so this shouldn’t be an earth shattering process cost producing process.

Carlos Lascano
VP Support Services, ExchangeDefender
carlos@ownwebnow.com
(877) 546-0316 x737