Exchange Server 2010 is as of Nov. 9th available to everyone worldwide. Exchange Server 2010 – 120 day download (can be activated with your license keys) Main Exchange 2010 information portal Licensing and pricing (this includes CAL differences) Can also be downloaded from TechNet, MSDN or Licensing. Reference: msexchangeteam.com
Great news! The Exchange Team has announced that Exchange 2010 is code complete and on it’s way to GA. Our senior leadership team has signed off on the final code, and it has been sent to our early adopters for one final look before its public release. This Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone means we are on our way to general availability and the launch at Tech·Ed Europe 2009 (http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/) in early November. Reference: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx
Microsoft has released SP2 for Exchange 2007. SP2 is a pre-requirement for co-existence with Exchange 2010. It also includes a lot of new features, listed below: Enhanced Auditing – New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers. It allows the right balance of granularity, performance, and easy access to audited events via a dedicated audit log repository. This simplifies the auditing …
Yesterday the Exchange Team announced the release of the Exchange 2010 RC (Release Candidate). The Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is now feature complete and available for download – (even though the download link from Microsoft didn’t work to begin with – works now though!!). Here’s a highlight of new things in the Release Candidate: Support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2: The Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is now supported on …
A while back Microsoft released a free set of online training for Exchange 2010. Collection 6899: Exploring Features of Exchange Server 2010 Overview: This two-hour collection provides you with an overview of the new features in Exchange Server 2010. It also describes the enhancements made over Exchange Server 2007. The clinics within this collection cover: New features in Exchange Server 2010 Technology enhancements Management tools used in Exchange Server 2010 Managing a Mailbox server Unified …