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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. In an effort to provide a rich client experience and
reduce the gap between the client and OWA, new features have been introduced, includ-
ing favorites, attaching messages to a message, search folders, integration with Office
Communicator and Lync, a new conversation view, and integration with Short Message
Service (SMS) messages.
Microsoft Online Services Many providers of services are moving “into the cloud,
and Microsoft is no exception. With Exchange 2010, it is now possible to host mail-
boxes in a datacenter or host them with your own ISP or even host them with Microsoft
Online Services.
Exchange 2010 provides the flexibility to be mixed between hosted and on premises, it can
also be 100 percent hosted or 100 percent on site. The users may not notice any difference,
however you will be able to manage mailboxes across both the on premises deployment and
the hosted environment. In this way you will be able to take advantage of the cloud for a
portion of your mailboxes, while maintaining control of other mailboxes by hosting them
on premises.
Administration The Exchange Management Console (EMC) has changed to keep up with
the changes to the major features, like HA. Due to the new replication functions, the mail-
box database object is now tied to the Exchange Server 2010 organization and is no longer
tied to the Exchange Server object.
Because storage groups are no longer used, their administration has been removed from
both the EMC and the EMS. Cmdlets you might have been familiar with, such as
New-
StorageGroup
, Get-StorageGroup, and so on, have been removed.
Exchange Server 2010 now runs on top of Windows PowerShell version 2. This version
not only has a command-line interface (CLI), it also has an interactive development
environment (IDE). This change allows you to easily create scripts and use variables.
An output window has been added where you can quickly view the results of your
cmdlet or script.
Another new feature is Send Mail, shown in Figure 1.5, which allows you to send mail
directly from the EMC, which is great for testing.
Exchange Control Panel A new options page in OWA now makes it possible to perform
some basic Exchange management tasks, not just with the user’s own properties, but also
at an organizational level. Using this new control panel makes it possible to create users,
mailboxes, distribution groups, mail-enabled contacts, management email addresses, and
so forth. Figure 1.6 shows the OWA Control Panel.
Active Directory Rights Management Active Directory Rights Management Services
(AD RMS) lets you have greater control with what users can do with emails messages.
For example, you can disable the “Forward” options to prevent your messages from
being sent to other recipients.
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