REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 13, 2007 —Microsoft Corp. today announced Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and opened a technology preview for the software. Exchange Server 2007 SP1 features enhancements such as support for Windows Server® 2008, enhanced integration with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, and improved mobile device management and advanced security technology.
Release Notes are located here.
SCR ready for production use:
- Extends the existing continuous replication features and enables new data availability scenarios
- Supports multiple targets per storage group
- SCR enables a separation of high availability (comprised of service and data availability) and site resilience
- SCR can be combined with CCR to replicate storage groups locally in a primary datacenter (using CCR for high availability) and remotely in a secondary or backup datacenter (using SCR for site resilience)
OWA:
- New OWA themes (X-Box, Zune)
- Supporting digital signatures with certificate that do not have email address in them for S/MIME
S/Mime features which were not complete in Beta 1:
- HTML filtering (now S/MIME message reading and editing is full fidelity)
- OWA Printing
- Admin Settings
- Both the new task and the updated MOM pack have been checked into the Beta 2 branch.
- Integration with anti-junk/phishing mail features
- Many bug fixes (in all features, not just S/MIME)
- Exchange Web Services HTTP Proxy and new Web Services ID’s.
New EMC features:
- Full Access permission management for mailboxes and mail-enabled public folders
- Preview of AL/EAP/DL with custom filter
- More ActiveSync policy settings
Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange UM integration:
- Support for additional types of UM dial plans
- Additional logic for resolving internal calling numbers
- Notification of forwarding when voice messages are left and the destination uses call forwarding
- Support for recording high-fidelity voice messages
- “Play on Phone” calls cannot be automatically forwarded when they are played on Communicator 2007
- Outlook Voice Access can be accessed from Communicator 2007 without requiring the user to enter a PIN
- Communicator 2007 clients can associate subjects and priorities with voice messages
- Support for media streams to traverse firewalls
- Integration of “missed call” notification e-mail messages with Communicator 2007
Other:
- Both the new task and the updated MOM pack have been checked into the Beta 2 branch
- Inter-Site Message Size Restrictions feature enable
- Test-ReplicationHealth is a new task that MOM pack uses to monitor HA replication
- MRM now supports policies on the message type “e-mail” in addition to other types of items (calendar, notes, etc)
Additional information:
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/aug07/08-13Exchange2007NewPR.mspx
https://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/08/14/446656.aspx
https://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/06/28/445538.aspx#445539
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/939531
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