Microsoft has released Exchange 2010 Beta and details of the new release.
Look forward to the following new features:
· Inbuilt Archiving
o This can also be pushed into BPOS
· End users Management of Mailbox over load
o Warning users of best email practice (MailTips) to help users reduce the amount of emails
o Ability for users to removed themselves from email threads (Ignore Conversation)
· Improved Administration
o 50% I/O cost improvements
o High Availability
o Improved Wizards and Delegation of email administration
· Unified Communications
o Voice Mail Text Preview in Outlook – no longer required to play your voice mail to everyone in the office
o Call Answering Rules – creation of phone menu’s to route calls to business departments
· Online Services
o Ability to push mailboxes between Microsoft BPOS (Cloud) and you internal mail server.
For more information please see www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010