64-bit SQL Server, DTS and Mail

Greetings al
Any feedback on 64-bit SQL Server? Is anyone using it? Any positive results or problems experienced
I read in the BOL that DTS componenets are not included in the current release. I see this as a major hurdle to overcome - yes packages can be run from a 32-bit server, but this would have an assoicated downside.
Also, SQL Mail is not supported. Can anyone at MS explain why SQL Agent Mail is supported but not SQL Mail? And why is Outlook Express the mail client and not Outlook
Finally, will DTS and SQL Mail be fully supported in future releases on the 64-bit platformThe primary reason for no SQLMail support is that SQLMail requires Extended
MAPI which was not ported to 64bit.
Agent Mail is supported because we did some work on it to support Simple
MAPI which is included with Outlook Express. It is not possible to run
Simple MAPI inside SQL Server as an XP hence this solution does not work
for SQLMail.
The reasons for Outlook Express and not Outlook are:
1/ There is no 64bit version of Outlook, hence no 64bit Simple/Extended MAPI
included with it.
2/ Even under 32bit once Extended MAPI is installed Simple MAPI no longer
works in a manner which allows it to be used by Agent Mail.
We aim to resolve these in a future release.
-Euan
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"Elliot Wien" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings all
> Any feedback on 64-bit SQL Server? Is anyone using it? Any positive
results or problems experienced?
> I read in the BOL that DTS componenets are not included in the current
release. I see this as a major hurdle to overcome - yes packages can be run
from a 32-bit server, but this would have an assoicated downside.
> Also, SQL Mail is not supported. Can anyone at MS explain why SQL Agent
Mail is supported but not SQL Mail? And why is Outlook Express the mail
client and not Outlook?
> Finally, will DTS and SQL Mail be fully supported in future releases on
the 64-bit platform?
>