UNC201 - Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1: An Overview of What's Coming

**class was very disappointing, instructor only mentioned few items about sp1.

General Manager of Exchange Server, Harvinder Bhela, talks about (and demos) key investments in Exchange Server 2010 and SP1 and how Exchange provides unprecedented IT cost savings; the richest user experience across the PC, phone, and browser; and better management of risk through built-in protection and compliance features. This session covers key topics including archiving and tiered storage; low cost disk use and the expansion of mailbox size while reducing costs; Unified Messaging and Voicemail Preview, and much more. Learn more about how Exchange Server 2010 SP1 delivers powerful productivity tools to your users in a way that best fits your business and technology needs. [TENA10]

Key points:
1. ‘Mailbox resiliency’ is the coin term
2. You can have up to 16 replicas
3. One place to manage sms and IM
4. Contact cards on outlook seamless format from OC
5. Option to now store archive mailboxes on separate mail store
6. You can set granular per item retention policies and capture all edits and deletions with legal hold
7. Empower compliance officers to conduct multi mailbox searches with ease
8. Exchange 2010 provides information protection:
- Transport protection rule – this automatically applies to based on senders, expression matching attachments..
- You can temporarily decrypt the message on the server, this way you can journal and archive, message are content indexed on exchange. So there is no compromise with availability and ILM, exchange 2010 solves this issue
- ILM you can protect message from getting forwarded – limitation here is that still users set which message is protected
- There is more support for mobile phones now for ILM
9. You can mix mode for on prem and cloud model
10. Help users manage inbox overloads
11. uM across email, IM, voice mail saves time
12. address book segregation will be available sometime in the second half of year

New in SP1:
1. Ability to estimate search time new in sp1
2. You can dedup results from search
3. You can tweak the search
4. Annotate the results
5. Released date, second half of the year