Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 Part CO PY RI GH TE D MA TE RI AL I
Chapter 1 Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 The following topics are discussed in this chapter: ÛÛ Brief history ÛÛ New features ÛÛ Improvements ÛÛ Discontinued features ÛÛ Comparison between 2007 and 2010 ÛÛ Client benefits
Ninety trillion. That is the estimated number of emails that were sent in 2009. Staggering isn’t it? While many of those emails were used to send jokes or argue sports, a large portion of them were used in business and deemed vital for the success of an organization. It is no wonder, then, that Exchange Server administrators and messaging professionals are in high demand, and it is our goal, in this book, to get you comfortable with Exchange 2010.
Brief History of Exchange Servers NN NN NN NN Standard and expression versions introduced NN Connectors to allow Exchange to talk to any email server provided NN Administrative console added NN Support for stand-alone SMTP NN Outlook introduced as the preferred client NN Outlook Web Access introduced 5 2000 Exchange 2000 NN Designed to work with AD NN Scheme management services for sending and receiving secure email NN Enhanced storage and administrative tools NN Chat and IM services
Chapter 1 n Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 New Features in Exchange Server 2010 Exchange Server 2010 is available in three editions, Trial, Standard, and Enterprise. The same installation media is used to install each edition. If no license key is supplied, the Trial edition features are enabled. To enable Standard or Enterprise features, an appropriate license key must be provided.
New Features in Exchange Server 2010 7 F i g u r e 1 .1 Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups UM also has more language-support features, and the name lookup from a caller ID has been enhanced. Third-party solutions were needed to provide a message waiting indicator in Exchange 2007, but in Exchange 2010 the feature has been added. Another new UM feature is a voicemail preview.
Chapter 1 n Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 Fi g u r e 1 . 2 Unified messaging interface Figure 1.3 shows the Administrator Roles control panel. Fi g u r e 1 .
Improvements in Exchange Server 2010 9 There are also new management-role assignment policies that will define what users can configure within their own mailboxes, and every mailbox has one of these polices. This is a welcome addition because it allows the administrator to control how much a user can change personal information, contact information, and distribution group membership.
Chapter 1 n Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 One of the complaints against OWA, especially in the earlier versions, was about the differences between the Outlook client and OWA. Users would complain that OWA was missing features that they needed.
Improvements in Exchange Server 2010 Fi g u r e 1 . 5 Send Mail Fi g u r e 1 .
Chapter 1 12 n Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 With Exchange Server 2010, new features have been added to the AD RMS: NN NN Integration with transport rules, which is a template for using AD RMS to protect messages over the Internet AD RMS protection for voicemail messages coming from the UM server role Transport and routing With Exchange Server 2010 it is possible to implement crosspremises message routing.
Discontinued Features 13 Discontinued Features In any new release of a software product, discontinued or de-emphasized features are inevitable. The items that follow in no way represent every change that has occurred in Exchange Server 2010, but it does represent some of the most prominent changes. Features That Have Been Removed The following key features and functionality have been removed from Exchange Server 2010: NN NN NN Storage groups are no longer a feature in Exchange Server 2010.
Chapter 1 14 n Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 Ta b l e 1 . 2 Discontinued Exchange Server 2003 connectors Feature Replacement Microsoft Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes No migration plan. If this functionality is required, you will need to keep Exchange Server 2003 in your environment. Microsoft Exchange Connector for GroupWise No migration plan. If this functionality is required, you will need to keep Exchange Server 2003 in your environment.
Comparison between Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 15 Ta b l e 1 . 4 Discontinued OWA features Feature Replacement Web Parts SP1 of Exchange Server 2010 adds Web Parts back. They were removed with Exchange Server 2010 RTM. Reading pane at the bottom No replacement. This is no longer possible. SharePoint document libraries and Windows file share No replacement. This is no longer possible.
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Comparison between Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 Ta b l e 1 . 5 Exchange 2007 and 2010 comparison (continued) Exchange 2007 Exchange 2010 ExOLEDB Store events IMF Removed options Outlook Mobile Access Administrative groups Coexistence with Exchange Server 5.5 Storage groups Routing groups Clustered mailbox server Outlook Web Access to public folders Mailbox Recovery Center CDOEx WebDAV ExOLEDB Store events Streaming backups Coexistence and upgrade paths No Exchange Server 5.5.
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Chapter 1 n Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 You can look at the entire list of new and discontinued features in Exchange Server 2010 by visiting the Microsoft Exchange product site at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/whats-new.aspx. Client Benefits to Exchange Server 2010 Microsoft spent much time listening to its customers, consultants, and messaging professionals to find out what features were missing or needed to be enhanced from earlier version of Exchange.
Client Benefits to Exchange Server 2010 21 Native Archiving Features With Exchange 2010, Microsoft introduced basic archiving features natively. Figure 1.7 shows the archiving feature enabled. The native archiving feature of Exchange 2010 allows an administrator to create an archive mailbox for each user; content can be moved automatically via policies or manually by end users.
Chapter 1 n Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 Microsoft’s native archiving feature provides basic archiving functionality along with a unified search that will query both the primary, live mailbox and the archive mailbox simultaneously. eDiscovery Features In previous versions of Exchange, external tools are required for basic multi-mailbox searching. With Exchange 2010, this is provided by default, as seen in Figure 1.8. F i g u r e 1 .
Client Benefits to Exchange Server 2010 23 The results of the specific query, once obtained, may be sent to either a mailbox or a specific SMTP address. Because these functions are also exposed with the API, third parties are able to create tools that integrate with the native features.
Chapter 1 n Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 disclaimers, many companies also want to have standardized email signatures. To accomplish this, many companies would turn to third-party software or email gateways to provide this functionality. Smaller organizations would just manually create Outlook signatures. This content had to be managed outside of Exchange and proved to be difficult to update.
Chapter Essentials NN NN If a user is about to send a message to another user that has enabled their out-of-office auto-reply If a message exceeds the maximum configured sending/receiving size limits configured within Exchange NN If a recipient’s mailbox is full due to a storage quota NN If a custom MailTip has been configured for a recipient or distribution group NN If a user replies to all but was Bcc’d on the original message NN 25 If a user is attempting to send a message to a user or distri