What is MS Exchange Server?
Now, more than ever, your organization requires cost-effective and flexible communication
tools. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 you can achieve new levels of reliability
and performance with features that simplify your administration, help protect your
communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility.
Microsoft Exchange Server, the cornerstone of Microsoft's Unified Communications
solution, is a flexible and reliable messaging platform that can help you lower
your messaging costs by 50- 80%, increase productivity with anywhere access to business
communications, and safeguard your business with protection and compliance capabilities
that help you manage risk.
Pressure to optimize your IT infrastructure for ever-changing business conditions
requires you to be agile, so investing in solutions that provide reliability and
choice is critical. Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your
deployment to your unique needs and provides a simplified way to help keep e-mail
continuously available for your users.
This flexibility and simplified availability comes from innovations to the core
platform that Exchange is built on. These innovations deliver numerous advances
in performance, scalability, and reliability advancements, while lowering the total
cost of ownership 50- 80%.
A new, unified approach to high availability and disaster recovery helps achieve
new levels of reliability as it reduces the complexity and cost of delivering business
continuity up to 80%. With new features, such as Database Availability Groups and
online mailbox moves, you can more easily and confidently implement mailbox resiliency
with database-level replication and failover, all with familiar Exchange management
tools.
Your business success relies on technology solutions that make your users more productive.
With Exchange Server 2010 you can cost effectively provide your users the freedom
to securely access all of their communications—e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging,
and more—from virtually any platform, Web-browser, or device to get more done wherever
they are.
Exchange Server 2010
With Exchange Server 2010 enhancements, your users can increase their productivity
and more easily collaborate with each other and their business partners.
A growing number of applications and devices access your e-mail infrastructure,
so it is more important than ever that you consider the protection of your mission
critical e-mail data when you choose an e-mail solution. Your organization has many
reasons to protect and archive e-mail, from regulatory concerns to internal organizational
governance. Exchange 2010 delivers integrated information protection, control, and
compliance tools focused on helping you simplify and automate this process.
Exchange Server 2010 was designed, developed, and tested with the Microsoft Software-plus-Services
strategy at its core. Choose from on-premise deployment with Exchange 2010, a CyberStreams-hosted
service with Hosted Exchange, or a seamless mix of both. You can decide when and
how you take advantage of on-premise, hosted, cloud-based, and hybrid solutions
without interrupting or changing the experience for your users.
Exchange Server 2007
You can manage a reliable messaging system with built-in protection against spam
and viruses, while providing anywhere access to e-mail, voicemail, calendars, and
contacts. Your people will appreciate the ability to stay in touch using a wide
variety of devices.
Capabilities and features of Exchange Server 2007 include:
- Built-in Protection
- Anti-spam and Anti-virus - built-in defenses against spam and phishing
e-mail as well as additional integrated filtering and multi-engine scanning capabilities
provide advanced protection.*
- Compliance – controls for messages in transport or requiring retention
and journaling help meet organizational, legal and regulatory compliance requirements
- Business Continuity - New data replication capabilities (local and
clustered) keep the system highly available while limiting the need and frequency
for tape backup
- Confidential Messaging - new encryption features for both internal
and Internet- based messages help protect the confidentiality of messages in transit.
- Anywhere Access
- Unified Messaging – email, faxes, and voicemail all delivered to your inbox, plus
voice access from any standard phone
- Web-Based Messaging – Outlook-like experience from any web browser including powerful
search and ability to view different types of attachments
- Mobile Messaging – improved email and calendaring on mobile devices, plus enhanced
device and security policy control
- Collaboration and Productivity – enhanced calendaring, out-of-office, resource booking
and meeting scheduling capabilities simplify collaboration and increase productivity
- Operational Efficiency
- Performance and Scalability – improved storage efficiency through the extended memory
and larger cache of x64-based architecture
- Administration - new graphical and command-line interfaces offer improved manageability
and increased automation while integrated tools simplify maintenance
- Deployment - modular setup and server provisioning based on server roles, as well
as capabilities to automatically discover Outlook and mobile clients
- Extensibility - new web services-based application programming interface (API) and
.NET integration via Exchange Management Shell tasks enable rapid development for
custom and third-party applications