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6. Reduce compliance risk in a way that makes sense for your business
Exchange Server 2007 incorporates features specifically designed to help your business comply
with corporate, regulatory, and legal requirements. These features enable you to apply retention
rules, scan and act on messages in transport, flexibly journal, and perform rich text searches across
mailboxes in your organization. Exchange Server 2007 eases the toll often placed on administrators
charged with applying and enforcing compliance policies, while avoiding adverse impact on
employees and their productivity.
7. Take advantage of powerful Web access
Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2007 provides a rich, Office Outlook 2007–like experience in a browser
and is great for use at home, at an airport kiosk, at an internet café, at a friend’s house, or anywhere
there is an Internet connection available. No VPN or network tunnel is required. OWA enhancements
in 2007 include a new Scheduling Assistant to help employees efficiently book meetings, fast server-
side search, integrated unified messaging, and new features to access documents and attachments
more easily from outside the office. With two-factor authentication support and attachment viewing
in HTML format, OWA also offers enhanced security compared with previous versions.
8. Boost administrator productivity with new tools
Exchange Server 2007 helps administrators save time and reduce effort with advanced management
tools. A new command line interface gives administrators complete, fine-grained control over
Exchange Server 2007 objects as well as the power to easily automate all types of operations with
scripts. In addition, the graphical management console has been completely updated, with a
more intuitive user interface, improved discoverability, and a toolbox work center that integrates
diagnostics, monitoring, and troubleshooting tools including Exchange Best Practices Analyzer and
the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant.
9. Ease deployment and management
Deploying Exchange Server 2007 has never been easier. Exchange Server 2007 has a modern,
modular architecture based on server roles. The server role concept is integrated into setup and
deployment, helping to eliminate potential errors resulting from manual configuration, reducing the
surface area for malicious attacks, and simplifying day-to-day management. Server roles are not tied
to particular hardware configurations; they can be deployed on one server machine or many.**
The new Autodiscover feature further eases deployment—by creating an automatic connection
between Exchange Server 2007 and Office Outlook 2007 clients where no special scripts or complex
user intervention is required.
**The exception is the Edge Transport role, which is intentionally designed to reside by itself in the perimeter network.
10. Optimize your investment for future growth
As a native 64-bit application, Exchange Server 2007 breaks through past memory and cache
limitations for higher performance and increased scalability even as mailbox sizes grow to
accommodate employees’ demands for more storage. The resulting reduction in input/output (I/O)
increases storage utilization so you can optimize existing storage investments or consider lower cost
storage options.