Exchange Server: Can’t Be Arsed Edition
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- The long-rumoured Exchange 2025 has finally been announced with the name "Exchange Server Subscription Edition". Is it going to bring Exchange Server back up to par with Exchange Online and give on-premises customers a competitive option once again?
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The bigger they are, the less they feel any sense of shame about their disdain for their customers. - The most pessimistic version of my younger self would not have imagined, how Microsoft and their ilk would be leaning into the most dystopian version of themselves. And that their promises mean exactly zero. I’m amazed, that you stayed so cool, calm and purely factual in your video in the face of such enshittification. But good for you (and don’t feel compelled to change) - it’s refreshing to see fierce criticism without rage-bait. Self-hosted open source seems to be the only reasonable path for people and companies, who don’t suffer from stockholm syndrome.
Thanks. I tried to keep it informative rather than devolve into a straight rant. Glad to hear it came across that way.
If they had the opportunity they would charge for an electricity licence
Don't give them ideas. The electricity bill from our datacentre is bad enough! 🙈
On prem is still a thing because of costs. Small organizations such as mine, do not want to pay a subscription. It's too expensive.
I don't think we have any right to be surprised or upset here. Everyone (like me) who is more inclined to on prem workloads and sovereignty were crying the chant of "This is going to happen one day if we all jump to the cloud" and look what's happened.
I'm not saying running on-prem EX is a good idea in the year 2022 and beyond. It's not. But we can't act surprised or upset. We signed up for this.
Surprised? No. Still disappointed, though; even if I saw it coming a mile off. They could at least have added DKIM/DMARC support - the fact Exchange Server still doesn't have that is embarrassing.
I would seriously consider a switch to GSuite
If I had to be on prem then one of the open source email servers
I think you may appreciate the video I'm working on right now... I'll try to remember to reply when it's ready.
If you're looking for an open source on-prem server, here's the one I was talking about: ruclips.net/video/pgshtE0eHAs/видео.html
Would love to see a video about why on-prem is still a thing in 2024. What are businesses still using Windows Server for (file-shares and group policy?) Microsoft clearly wish on-prem would just go away but I'd love to know what reasons companies have for keeping it (beyond inertia and already-paid-for-it reasons)
There are a lot of reasons, and they'll be situation dependent. Some common ones are:
- Plenty of applications still require Active Directory.
- Cloud services (especially Microsoft's) are often released when they are not feature-complete compared to the on-prem software they're intended to replace, leaving established customers stuck without a migration path for features they rely on.
- Cloud services are often one-size-fits all and not well-suited to customisation, and many businesses have heavily customised or integrated their existing platform with other services.
- Control over costs, uptime, and privacy.
- In many cases moving to the equivalent cloud service costs double or triple the equivalent on-prem cost when taken over a typical 5-year hardware refresh cycle.
This varies from company to company and application to application, of course. It's difficult to recommend running full-blown Exchange + SharePoint + Skype for Business + Office Online servers compared to an Office 365 subscription. When many companies look at cloud, they (incorrectly IMO) look at a like-for-like cost instead of refactoring their existing services to better fit cloud commercial models.
Scale is also a factor. For a small company with 5 users running on-prem servers would be a huge overhead and paying £30 /user/month for someone else to take care of it is a no-brainer. Scale that up to 1,000 users though, and now you're spending millions over a 5-year cycle and for that money you could have paid for an awful lot of servers and had plenty left over to feed your bottom line.
I've recommended full-cloud, I've recommended on-prem, and I've recommended hybrid depending on the situation. It's something that needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis.
@@ProTechShow Thank you
Most government and military organisations will have a tier that is not connected to the Internet so they rely on ON-PREM. It will be interesting if windows server 2025 is the last and what these organisations will do? In the US there is secret AWS and AZure but non US Gov and military won't use it.
Government and military who need air gapped systems. Not sure where they will go in 10 years time, on US bodies have access to secret aws