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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition
Along with antispam filtering and extensibility for antivirus protection, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 includes built-in protection with features like Edge Transport and Hosted Filtering Integration
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 — the next evolution
If you're looking for a way to improve your company's data efficiency, your timing couldn't be better: 10 years after the initial release of Microsoft Exchange Server, the industry's leading provider now offers Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, with more built-in sophistication for sending, receiving and managing business data than ever before. Most notably, the new system promises to help companies meet ever-growing requirements in such 21st-century areas as compliance, security, disaster recovery and mobility.
Scalability and multiple server roles
Exchange Server is traditionally known for its utility in both corporate and small business environments. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 takes scalability even further with a flexible, modular system that can be installed across more than one machine in your network for more efficient deployment, management and security. And newly expanded, role-based deployment in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 enables you to assign predefined roles to specific servers, resulting in better control over mail flow, increased security and streamlined distribution services. (For more information about using multiple server roles in Exchange 2007, please see accompanying sidebar.)
Administration made easy
In earlier versions of Exchange, IT administrators could create administrative groups to help organize administration. Yet these administrative groups lacked flexibility due to an inability to move servers between groups. That's the primary reason you won't find administrative groups in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Instead, you can easily delegate from the organization down to an individual server, increasing flexibility and simplicity. Furthermore, you can now assign permissions to more closely match your administration model, whether centralized or decentralized.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 leaves more room to grow
Want to optimize your organization's performance? A 64-bit hardware and operating system give Exchange 2007 a marked leap up from more limited 32-bit systems. With up to 16 exabytes of memory and internal registers that are twice as big as 32-bit processor registers, the newly released Exchange server helps you avoid high input/output operations per second (IOPS). In fact, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, running on 64-bit hardware, was shown to require approximately 75 percent fewer IOPS than Exchange Server 2003 running on the same hardware. For the IT administrator, it all translates to a greater capacity for larger amounts of data to be handled more efficiently than ever before.
New levels of protection in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
In addition to boosting existing functions, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 introduces several brand new features as well — such as built-in protection against spam and viruses. To reduce unwanted e-mail, for example, multi-tiered spam protection includes safe-center aggregation to reduce false positives. Outlook e-mail postmarks help you uncover telltale spam patterns while spam quarantine allows the review of suspected spam messages by IT administrators. And sender reputation dynamically monitors, analyzes and updates specific trends from a given domain — determining whether incoming messages should be quarantined or rejected. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 also offers updates to virus signatures, IP reputation services and antispam filters several times per day.
Viruses attacking your organization face similar scrutiny. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 antivirus solutions such as Forefront Security for Exchange Server (previously known as Microsoft Antigen) give on-premise protection for key server roles. Exchange Hosted Filtering Services automatically steer spam and e-mail-borne viruses away from your organization.
To better deploy and respond to antivirus agents, Exchange Server's new transport agent API works in conjunction with the Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange server. Your company's message security is simplified through SMTP transport and encryptions, helping to prevent spoofing and protecting message confidentiality.
Helping your business stay compliant
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 takes on corporate compliance: all e-mails can now be controlled through a sophisticated e-mail flow control and policy engine. Rules, limits and policies that govern mailbox size and growth are easily controlled with the messaging records management inherent to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Using transport rules that you define and modify, e-mails are acted on at each stage of the e-mail life cycle, making it easier to manage messages, organize folders and comply with legal policies for archiving.
Greater e-mail availability
Chances are likely that your organization relies heavily on digital communication — if so, you'll appreciate the emphasis Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 places on e-mail availability. Multiple built-in options designed to preempt service failure include Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR), which makes it easier to provide server redundancy for Exchange services and information stores. Meanwhile, Windows Mobile integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides users of Windows Mobile devices with "on demand downloading" and lets them access Sharepoint sites from their e-mails while connected to Exchange Server.
Additional features and benefits
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 offers ways to further enhance your organization's communication by:
- Easing administrators' oversight of Service Level Agreements through simplified Exchange management procedures
- Providing more flexibility in delegating administrative permissions
- Allowing for more efficient response to changing messaging requirements in your enterprise
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 includes the Exchange Management Console, a robust Microsoft Management Console (MMC)-based tool that conveys important system architectural changes so that you can maintain server roles more easily. Also part of the Exchange Management Console built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is a powerful scripting technology named Exchange Management Shell that issues commands and lets you script complex tasks (retrieving mailbox properties for a specific server, for example) with minimal code entry. And a new Autodiscover tool enables users of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to easily learn the name of the server needed to configure or resolve their profile.
Access to information leads to productivity
Acknowledging the increasing sophistication of its users, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 gives unprecedented access to information, a benefit geared toward empowering users and enhancing productivity. To improve collaboration, for example, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 includes Unified Messaging (UM) capabilities, enabling users to get all of their vital business communications, including e-mail, voice mail and other information derived from digital messaging media. Exchange UM even carries a speech recognition-enabled component for "answering" your organization's internal and external phone calls.
Other features designed to improve productivity include flexible out-of-office rules, Web-ready document viewing and Calendar Concierge, which helps users keep up with people and events using enhanced automatic scheduling. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides virtual access to Exchange data from Internet or intranet through such resources as Outlook Anywhere and helps keep employees' communication channels wide open with Outlook voice access.
Deploying and upgrading Exchange Server
Finally, deploying or installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is carried out via either the traditional method using graphical user interface or by using Exchange Management Shell. Designed especially for use by larger organizations, this scripted installation enables a server to be configured to your organization. To upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, tools are provided to assist in accurate, efficient data transition from older versions of Exchange.
These descriptions only scratch the surface of the several new improvements and features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. But clearly, it's a robust package — the most comprehensive in the Exchange family to date — and one that can streamline accurate, efficient and secure communication processes for any sized company.
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Exchange 2007 Server Roles
To simplify deployment, increase efficiency and enable more effective hardware utilization, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 includes unique server roles that are predefined and selected during installation. Potential server roles include:
Client Access role
Similar to the front-end server in earlier versions of Exchange, this server proxies Internet client traffic to the correct mailbox server.
Mailbox role
This role hosts user mailboxes stored in databases that can be replicated or clustered.
Hub Transport role
This role provides internal routing of all messages — from Edgeservers, Unified Messaging (UM) servers or between two users on the same mailbox database. The Hub Transport role is also where messaging policy is enforced for messages moving within and outside the organization.
Unified Messaging role
This role enables private branch exchange (PBX) integration to allow voice mail and fax messages delivered to Exchange mailboxes and provides voice dial-in capabilities to Exchange Server.
Edge Transport role
This server resides outside your internal network and provides on-premise e-mail security, antivirus and antispam services for Exchange. Off-premise filtering can be provided by Exchange Hosted Filtering.
(Source: Microsoft 2006)
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