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Designing and Planning for New Exchange Features
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The Exchange Management Shell
The Exchange Management Shell (Figure 1.4) is a new task-based command-line shell and
scripting language that will tremendously ease the way you do administration. Using the EMS
you can perform every task that can be done in the Exchange Management Console, and addi-
tional tasks that cannot be done there.
FIGURE 1.4 The Exchange Management Shell
The planning aspect of this new feature is mainly that all Exchange administrators should
get training to understand the basics of how to use the EMS and how to create batch processes
that ease their daily business lives. By default, the Exchange Management Shell can be used by
anybody that has Exchange-related permissions. Thus, Exchange Server Administrators or
Exchange Recipient Administrators can use it to modify configuration or object attributes.
Unified Messaging
Unified Messaging is one of the key new features in Exchange Server 2007. Using it you will
be able to access your mailbox not only with Microsoft Outlook, but also using a standard
telephone line. Unified Messaging provides the following features to the user:
Call answering: Acts like an answering machine.
Fax receiving: You can receive a fax, but not send a fax!
Voice access to your mailbox: Listen to, forward, and reply to email messages and voice
mail, listen to calendar entries and accept or reject them, dial contacts, or set voicemail “out
of office” messages.
User configuration: Gives you voice access to your Unified Messaging system. You can
define a personal greeting or describe how to search in the organization’s directory.
The Unified Messaging IP Gateway
The Unified Messaging (UM) IP Gateway connects your telephone system to your Exchange
environment. It is used with a legacy PBX to convert the circuit-switched protocols found on
a telephony network to IP-based packet-switched protocols. To support Exchange Server
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