Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system. Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is a mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to be more productive and access their information anywhere and anytime while providing a messaging system that enables rich, efficient access to e-mail, calendar items, voice mail, and contacts. For the administrator, Exchange Server 2007 SP1 provides advanced protection options against e-mail security threats, such as spam and viruses, as well as the tools to help manage internal compliance and high availability needs.
In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, several new features and improvements will extend the Anywhere Access capabilities of Exchange Server 2007 to help make employees more productive on whatever device theyre using, provide additional Operational Efficiency tools for administrators seeking a streamlined management and deployment experience, and enable advanced Built-in Protection for more robust high availability and compliance scenarios.
In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, several new features and improvements will extend the Anywhere Access capabilities of Exchange Server 2007 to help make employees more productive on whatever device theyre using, provide additional Operational Efficiency tools for administrators seeking a streamlined management and deployment experience, and enable advanced Built-in Protection for more robust high availability and compliance scenarios.
Improvements in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 include:
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, native virtualization, 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.
Download: Download Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (Registration Required) | 32-bit: 840.6 MB | 64-bit: 854.7 MB Download: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging Language Packs
View: Release Notes for Exchange Server 2007 SP1
View: Neowin Forum Discussion (courtesy of colinbo)
and yea, people will often test software on lower spec hardware, some of which probably won't be 64bit.
It will be a while before I install this on our production stuff, need to make sure 100% that the backup software will be affected(its unlikly it will be tho) plus we tend to wait a while after release incase any major issues are discovered with it.
I'm looking forward to using the improved GUI tools tho, I hate using the stupid console for even simple things that previously had GUI options in 2003
For those running Forefront Security for Exchange.. SP1 is due to release to web on Monday. You will need that to use Forefront Security w/ Exchange 2007 SP1.
Well, this is one release we'll skip organization wide completely while waiting for an Exchange replacement.
Well, this is one release we'll skip organization wide completely while waiting for an Exchange replacement.
The new admin tools are only slow on a crappy server. The new admin tools work great on my server. I do admit that there are some things that are missing that make you go to the exchange management shell, but EMS is pretty nice too.
I am running the whole setup. Exchange 2007 w/UM so our users can have their voicemail in their e-mail. We are using ActiveSync and Outlook Anywhere. Everything is working nicely.
Good luck on waiting for an Exchange replacement. I doubt that there are any products out there that can compete.
Hasn't Exchange 2007 only been out for a few months? We have Exchange 2007 with our Action Pack, shame we run 32Bit servers.
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