Exchange 2010 — Are You Migrating?

Right after Exchange 2010 was released, I was quoted in Network World stating that none of our GroupID customers planned to move to it immediately.  I immediately received two responses, one customer contacted me on Twitter and said he was very soon.  And one guy stated in the comments that the obvious reason I said that was that we didn’t support Exchange 2010 yet.

And then there was silence.

About two weeks ago, we had a spate of customers and prospects start making noises about migrating.  It wasn’t overwhelming but enough to shake my belief that nobody was going to move to Exchange 2010.  I decided to move past the anecdotal evidence I love so much and will now ask people in a not-so-scientific but better-than-nothing poll.

In exchange for participating in the poll, we are offering a free copy of our whitepaper, “Unlock the Power of Active Directory Groups.”  This whitepaper provides information on best practices for managing AD groups (security and distribution).  To encourage participation, it is an anonymous poll.

In the first night of the poll’s existence, I’ve found some surprising and not so surprising data.  The larger companies are describing the process from difficult to “I’m never doing that again” when upgrading to 2007.  And nobody has yet answered that they are on 2010.  This might be explained by the average time after release to deploy a new version is 15 months.

Again, this is not a significant sample size (…must…get…more…blog…readers…) yet but we will keep working to find more information on important topics like this.  Take the poll and add to the fun.