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I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft. I like them more than I like Hillary Clinton, but, honestly, that’s not saying much. That said, we migrated to Microsoft Exchange a while back, and I actually like the platform.  It integrates well with Active Directory, and it’s fairly easy to manage (once you get over the learning curve of figuring out the Microsoft way of naming things).

So, yeah, Microsoft got one right on the corporate email solution.

The problem I’ve had is that for months (6, maybe) all of the Microsoft documentation on Exchange references Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1.  The problem is that Service Pack 1 has not been available.  It’s a massive service pack (800MB) with major GUI changes (meaning they put a GUI where previously there wasn’t one).

So what do you do when you want to know about how to create/manage a public folder?  or grant “Send as” rights for one user on a separate mailbox?  You do the rational thing - you Google it.  And when Google takes you to the proper page, the Microsoft KB article tells you the GUI implementation of Service Pack 1.  What it doesn’t tell you is that you really have to run some ambiguous “cmdlet” (commandlet) in the Exchange Management Console.

Well, no more.  This week Microsoft got around to releasing Service Pack 1.  Let there be much rejoicing in the land.  I downloaded it - all 800MB of it - and I’m all ready to install it, now that I’ve actually got the file.

Now I’ll wait the standard 2-3 weeks after a Microsoft release before actually installing it.  If any of you fine folks find yourself in a situation where you are installing Microsoft Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, let me know how it goes.