Exchange 2010 is a radical improvement on Exchange 2003. Compared with
2007, it's just that bit faster at handling mail. There has been a
pleasant trend to give the users more help and more control, as a result
there should be less frustration and fewer calls to tech support.
If you are familiar with Exchange Server 2007, then you will find
Exchange Server 2010 a polished upgrade offering more of the same. For example,
greater reliability (Databases are no longer associated with storage groups), faster performance
(Page Size 32 kb), increased protection from malware. Microsoft's marketing
department claim, Exchange Server 2010 helps you lower costs and
enhances business communication; and they are probably correct.
If you are not familiar with Exchange 2007, (you only know Exchange 2003), then
there are major improvements, and new ways of configuring your Exchange
organization.
Exchange Server 2010 includes a host of new features customers will
benefit from, including new integrated email archive and discovery
functionality, new user features to battle inbox overload, voice mail
management enhancements, and improvements that simplify administration.
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Ability to delegate administration to power users via the Exchange
Control Panel. This results in lower support costs as users manage
their own email settings.
New unified mailbox resilience model that provides high availability,
disaster recovery, and back up capabilities.
Architecture change. All client connections come through the
CAS (Client Access Server).
Tips to advise users about potential mistakes before they send an email.
Re-designed information protection capabilities from email moderation to
automatic email encryption.
The choice to run Exchange on-premises, as a service hosted by Microsoft
or as a hybrid.
Integrated conversation view, this amalgamates messages in the Inbox,
'Sent Items' and Deleted folders.
New integrated archiving and discovery capabilities.
Users get a text preview of voice mail messages in the inbox.
New Call Answering Rules to easily create customized voice mail rules,
such as call transfer options.
Ability to remove (or "mute") themselves from irrelevant
conversations with the click of a button.
Exchange databases are no longer associated with storage groups.
Key PowerShell cmdlets, Get-MailboxDatabase and New-MailboxDatabase. See more on PowerShell for
Exchange 2010.
New PowerShell Cmdlets for Exchange 2010
Perhaps the best development when using the shell for configuring Exchange
2010 is PowerShell v 2.0's Remoting. When Exchanged 2007 was released
all we had as PowerShell 1.0 with little or no ability to issue commands
over the network.
Summary of Exchange Server 2010 - New Features Review
Microsoft has polished each facet of Server 2007 before they released
Exchange 2010. As a result there is a better user experience,
underpinned by technical advances in the mail stores, the ESE engine and
transport capabilities.
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provide the name of the OU where the new mailboxes will be born.
There are also two bonus tools in the free download, and all 3 have been approved by Microsoft:
Bulk-import new users and mailboxes into Active Directory.
Here is a
free tool to monitor your Exchange Server.
Download the utility, then inspect your mail queues, monitor Exchange server's
memory, confirm there is enough disk space and check the CPU utilization.
