Archive for month: March, 2011

 

Exchange 2007

– Routing groups are tied with Active Directory sites and services

– Replication is done using Active Directory replicattion

– Bridgehead server role was eliminated and replaced with the Hub Transport seerver

– Outlook Web Access (OWA) was dramatically improved to similar to 32-bit version of Outlook

– Direct file access (Access shares on servers through OWA)

– OWA provides access to mailbox rules, out-of-office rules, provisioning of Mobile devices, access to digital rights managed content

– LCR – two databases replicated on separate drives on the same server

– CCR – users mailbox replication across servers and sites (fail-over and fail-back capabilities)

 

Exchange 2007 SP1

– Public folders available in OWA

– Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) allowed for offsite, over-the-wan replication of databases with 20 minute replication delays.

– Geo-cluster is possible for remote CCR

 

Exchange 2010

– Server Licensing

– Standard supports 5 database stores

– Enterprise supports up to 150 stores

– User Licensing (non-relating/exclusive to server licensing)

– Enterprise license provides unified messaging, per-user journaling for compliance support, and use of Exchange Server hosted services for message filtering

– No more Recovery Storage Groups (RSG)

– No more STM databases

– OWA enhanced features available to other browsers

– Database Availability Group (DAG, Basically CCR, No more LCR, CCR, SCR)

– Remote execution of EMS commands