So, What exactly is NEW in Exchange 2010?
Well, If you didnt hear already Exchange 2010 is now available worldwide. I thought it would be a good idea to highlight whats new this, the latest incarnation of the messaging platform.
What's New in Exchange 2010
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. With new deployment and storage options, enhanced inbox management capabilities, and e-mail archiving built-in, Exchange Server 2010 helps you lower costs and enhance business outcomes.
Exchange Server 2010 includes a host of new features customers will benefit from, including new integrated e-mail archive and discovery functionality, new user features to battle inbox overload, voice mail management enhancements, and improvements that simplify administration.
For businesses, highlights include:
· New integrated archiving and discovery capabilities.
· New unified mailbox resilience model that provides high availability, disaster recovery, and back up capabilities.
· Ability to easily delegate administration to specialized users, such the help desk or a compliance officer.
· Comprehensive information protection capabilities-from e-mail moderation to automatic e-mail encryption.
· The choice to run Exchange on-premises, as a service hosted by Microsoft or as a hybrid of both.
For users, highlights include:
· A consistent inbox, calendaring, and contacts experience across the PC, browser and phone.
· Integrated conversation view bringing together information across all folders, inbox and sent and deleted items.
· Ability to remove (or "mute") themselves from irrelevant conversations with the click of a button.
· Text preview of voice mail messages in the inbox.
· New Call Answering Rules to easily create customized voice mail rules, such as call transfer options.
· Mail Tips to notify users about potential mistakes before they send e-mail.
Learn More about Exchange 2010
The TechNet and MSDN web sites contain all the information you need to learn more about the capabilities of 2010 and how it can help you reduce costs and increase productivity.
· Learn more about what's new in Exchange Server 2010
· For more information on Exchange Server 2010 capabilities, see the technologies section
· View IT Pro Exchange 2010 resources on TechNet
· View Developer Exchange 2010 resources on MSDN
In forth coming blogs I will drill into the various major technology areas and explain how to configure and deploy these different areas successfully, probably starting off with the user archive as this seems to be very popular with my customers right now. If you have any questions or a topic you want me to cover in a post please let me know, and I will do my best to get answers :)