Microsoft has backed off a controversial licensing provision introduced with Exchange 2007 that forced customers to spend more money to get basic mailbox management features.
Last month, Microsoft issued a licensing advisory to channel partners and customers informing them that access to the Managed Default Folders feature in Exchange 2007 -- the functional equivalent of the Mailbox Manager introduced with Exchange 2003 -- would be reinstated as part of the Exchange 2007 Standard client access license (CAL), or Core CAL.
When the e-mail system was launched in December, Microsoft said the renamed mailbox manager feature would be available only under the newly introduced, and more expensive, Exchange 2007 Enterprise CAL. Previously, Microsoft offered only one CAL for Exchange, and mailbox management was included.
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