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4 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING EXCHANGE SERVER 2010
2003 or Exchange 2007 pretty well, but there will be new details to learn with Exchange 2010.
Sometimes these implementation or management details are things that we have to learn the
hard way — thus the trepidation associated with any new version of Exchange.
However, this next milestone in the evolution o f Exchange Server is a good one. We can’t
help but be excited about learning about this new version and sharing what we have learned.
We hope that you will feel the same sense of excitement. We have picked a top-ten list of new
features that we like and hope that you will investigate further as you start to learn Exchange
Server 2010. Some of these are summarized in this chapter while most of these you will find in
more detail in later chapters. The new features are as follows:
◆ Powerful message transport rules applied and enforced at the server
◆ Continuously replicated Exchange databases and failover to a replicated database at the
database level rather than the server level
◆ MAPI clients now able to communicate with the Client Access server rather than directly
with the database engine
◆ Vastly improved antispam features
◆ Customizable ‘‘over quota,’’ nondelivery messages, and end-user informational messages
◆ Exchange Management Shell command-line and scripting interface
◆ Improved calendaring support via calendar concierge, the Availability service, and
resource mailboxes
◆ Message routing now based on Active Directory site rather than Exchange administrator–
configured routing groups
◆ Unified messaging technology that is now an integrated part of Exchange Server 2010
◆ Completely rewritten and vastly improved Outlook Web App (formerly known as Outlook
Web Access)
This list could go on for the entire chapter, but this gives you a taste of a few of the features
that excite Exchange administrators as well as administrators from other messaging systems
when they talk about Exchange 2010.
Learn the Exchange Management Shell (and Wear Sunscreen!)
To those of you who have been around the Internet long enough to remember the ‘‘Wear
Sunscreen’’ email that was supposedly the 1997 commencement address to MIT given by Kurt
Vonnegut but was in reality a column written by the Chicago Sun Tribune’s Mary Schmich,
I give you ‘‘Learn the Management Shell’’:
◆ If we could offer you one important tip when learning Exchange Server 2010, it would be that
you should get to know the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). Sure, it looks intimidating
and nearly everything you will ever need to do is in the Exchange Management Console. Many
Exchange gurus will back us up on the value and usefulness of the new EMS, whereas they
might not agree with us on things such as using real-time block lists, making full backups daily,
and keeping lots of free disk space available.
◆ Make regular Exchange data backups.