The Exchange Team has announced SP2 for Exchange 2010, it is scheduled for release in the second half of 2011. The SP2 includes the following major new features: Outlook Web App (OWA) Mini: A browse-only version of OWA designed for low bandwidth and resolution devices. Based on the existing Exchange 2010 SP1 OWA infrastructure, this feature provides a simple text based interface to navigate the user’s mailbox and access to the global address list from …
Great news from the Exchange team today. They have announced enhancements to the virtualization support of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 running with SP1. With Exchange SP1 the following scenarios are now supported running under hardware virtualization: The Unified Messaging server role is supported in a virtualized environment. Combining Exchange 2010 high availability solutions (database availability groups (DAGs)) with hypervisor-based clustering, high availability, or migration solutions that will move or automatically failover mailbox servers that are …
The Office team has posted a nice overview of the needed licenses for using Exchange 2010 Personal Archive and Retention Policies. To use Personal Archive or retention policies requires a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 account with Microsoft Exchange Server Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) and one of the following Microsoft Outlook licenses. Read their post here.
I recently installed the Exchange 2010 SP1 Unified Messaging (UM) role at a client and in that process I was installing the pre-requirements: Unified Communications Managed API 2.0, Core Runtime Microsoft Speech Platform – Server Runtime I found that there are multiple versions of the Speech Platform Runtime, available as download: Microsoft Speech Platform – Server Runtime (Version 10.2) Microsoft Speech Platform – Server Runtime (Version 10.1) Since this was a new installation, I was …
A few weeks ago I got interviewed by RunAsRadio, who delivers weekly IT Pro podcasts. The topic for my interview was Federation in Exchange 2010. Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients, vendors, partners, and customers and share their free/busy (also known as calendar availability) and contact information. While federation has been around for a while in Exchange, the 2010 goes into a web services model that allows simple, limited visibility for other …