Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Anywhere Access
Integrated Exchange Unified Messaging functionality with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
• Outlook Web Access additions, including public folder access, S/MIME support, personal distribution lists, and mailbox rules editor.
• Webready document viewer supports Microsoft Office 2007 documents in addition to Microsoft Office 2003 documents.
• Extended language support in Outlook Web Access with Arabic and Korean spell checking.
Operational Efficiency
Support for Windows Server 2008 deployments, including benefits in flexible clustering, advanced networking, and simplified management.
• Additional tools in the Exchange Management Console, including public folder management and configuration options for clustering and POP/IMAP access.
• Improvements to the Exchange Management Shell syntax and import-export PST in the move-mailbox command.
• Wider variety of web services for application development, including public folder access, delegate management, and folder level permissions.
Built-in Protection
Addition of Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) for site resilient high availability deployments.
• Extended Exchange ActiveSync policies for mobile policy enforcement.
• Information rights management pre-licensing by the Hub Transport role.
• Secure Real Time Protocol (SRTP) support in the Unified Messaging role.
• Support for IPv6 when using Windows Server 2008
Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) feature.
SCR joins the other three HA solutions that Exchange 2007 SP1 provides, and is built on the "continuous replication" concept. This is where the database and the transaction logs are copied over to a secondary location -- whether that location is a disk, as in the case of Local Continuous Replication (LCR), or a passive node to a cluster, as in the case of Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) -- and then replayed into the database.
SCR allows you to replicate your data to a different server or servers because it can accommodate multiple targets. It allows admins to establish a lag time to prevent a corrupt set of files from replicating before they can stop it. It also allows admins to replicate the passive side to a CCR or Single Copy Cluster (SCC), the fourth solution of HA that is offered by Exchange 2007.
The only downside is that SP1 doesn't include a way to accomplish SCR through the Exchange Management Console. It requires the use of the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) with PowerShell commands.

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