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March 04, 2005
DVDs or CDs? You decide!
Microsoft's KC Lemson asks over on You Had Me at EHLO whether people would want the next version of Exchange to come on multiple CDs or a single DVD.
I'm all in favor of DVDs -- I usually copy the install bits up to the network and install from a network share anyway. Over the last year of writing the Cookbook and working on the other various Exchange projects 3Sharp throws my way, I've found the following benefits from doing so:
- Less media to manage.
- Consistent installation paths across all my servers.
- Easier to manage installation from updated ExDeploy tools when all the bits (original and updated) are in one place.
- If I like, I can deploy servers without a CD-ROM drive and use a portable drive if I have to boot from an OS CD. One less item in the Device Manager tree, one less moving part to worry about breaking.
Head on over and tell KC what you think.
Posted by Devin Ganger at March 4, 2005 02:08 PM