Personal archiving, e-discovery, control panel capabilities, and more? These are a few of the updates that are being made in the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1.
And to be quite honest, I’m somewhat underwhelmed.
For the most part the release in November of the product was great and the new feature sets were nice but the proposed updates target things that most people either overlooked or that weren’t exactly groundbreaking to begin with.
Sure, there were enough complaints and suggestions to the product by people to get them hooked up in the revision and update cycle but many of them were just ho-hum. Couple that with the fact that features, like “e-discovery,” weren’t actually named correctly (it’s actually called multimailbox search), many people just missed out on them.
I think there’s somewhat of a parallel to ministry here.
You see, it seems, at times, that we spend a lot of time “updating” parts of ministry that most people don’t even know about or even pay attention to. Perhaps they’re not paying attention because they’re disfunctional, underused, or just not worth the effort? Perhaps these parts of our ministry are worth letting go of?
Sure, there’s always cases where there’s wisdom in updating the more “underwhelming” parts of ministry for the business and making things run more smooth, but perhaps we do this more than we’d care to admit.
Just some Wednesday morning thoughts.
Tom says
Between the Oracle / MySQL article and this article, the parallels in software and ministry have been on my mind this week.
“You see, it seems, at times, that we spend a lot of time “updating” parts of ministry that most people don’t even know about or even pay attention to.”
To that point, I also say that there are small things that, when changed, may ultimately negatively affect the whole experience.
Case in point (a simple one, but effective nonetheless): CTRL+F is – I believe – universally known as a shortcut for ‘find.’ In Outlook, CTRL+F does something completely unrelated and it frustrates me every single time I habitually use it.
I don’t work in ministry, but I imagine there are times when a church has changed their CTRL+F to do something totally different than what people are used to and have come to expect.
Change, in that regard, isn’t always good. It’s frustrating.