Microsoft Exchange Server is the industry’s leading email, calendaring, and unified messaging server and a key component of the Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) solution.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.
• Flexible and Reliable: Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your unique needs and a simplified way to help keep email continuously available for your users.
• Anywhere Access: Exchange Server 2010 powers a rich user experience with the flexibility of anywhere access across desktop, Web, and mobile devices.
• Protection and Compliance: Exchange Server 2010 delivers integrated archiving, retention and information control, and protection tools aimed at helping you ease the burden of compliance and e-discovery requirements.

What’s new in Exchange Server 2010? In responding to the needs of our customers and partners, we have concentrated our efforts on three investment areas with Exchange Server 2010*:
Flexible and Reliable: Choice of deployment options (online/hosted) and storage hardware (storage area network [SAN]/direct-attached storage [DAS]).
Anywhere Access: Cross-browser support for Microsoft Outlook® Web Access, Conversation View, MailTips, voice mail preview.
Protection and Compliance: Integrated archiving, retention, information leakage protection, and compliance capabilities.

Three simple questions to start the customer conversation:

1. How secure are your organisation's electronic communications?

- Exchange Server 2007 offers built-in protective technologies to support business momentum, reduce spam and viruses, enable confidential communications and aid compliance.
- Enterprise-class availability and reliability keep communication alive and e-mail flowing. - Safeguard valuable user and organisational data from spam and viruses.
- Provide trusted organisational communications, automatically and without added cost or complexity.
- Simplify regulatory compliance while supporting the different needs of employees, compliance managers and messaging administrators.

2. Are your employees empowered with e-mail access, wherever and whenever they need it?

- With Exchange Server 2007, employees can access their e-mail, voice mail, calendars and contacts from virtually anywhere.
- Increase worker productivity with the ability to respond from almost any location.
- Give employees a single inbox to access important communications – including voice mail, fax and e-mail – while avoiding the cost and effort of maintaining separate systems.
- Deliver a fast, seamless and familiar Microsoft Office Outlook® experience across different devices and clients.
- Improve collaboration and productivity by making it easier to find and share data, documents and schedules.

3. Could your e-mail and communications infrastructure be more efficient?

- Exchange Server 2007 enables new levels of operational efficiency, with capabilities that optimise hardware and networking investments and features that aid administrator productivity.
- Deliver the power of x64 computing and bandwidth-optimising technology, maximising the performance of IT and network investments.
- Boost administrator productivity by making it easier to find and fix problems and to automate tasks.
- Drive deployment efficiencies with automatic client connections, a new server roles-based architecture and improved diagnostics and monitoring.
- Simplify integrating Exchange Server 2007 data within line-of-business applications and third-party solutions, through new Exchange Web Services.

This product is licensed using the Server + CALs model.

Q. What do I get with the Exchange Enterprise CAL versus the Exchange Standard CAL?
A. The Microsoft Exchange Enterprise Client Access Licence (CAL) is an add-on to the Exchange Standard CAL. It includes Unified Messaging and advanced compliance. With the Exchange Enterprise CAL software assurance (SA), the customer can get Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering (EHF) for onsite and hosted anti-virus and anti-spam protection. The Exchange Standard CAL delivers advancements that reduce the cost and complexity of the messaging system by giving IT administrators the messaging protection their company demands, the anywhere access their end users want and the reliability they need.

Q. Do I still need an Exchange Standard CAL to access e-mail?
A. Yes. Customers will still be required to purchase the Microsoft Exchange Standard Client Access Licence (CAL) for access to e-mail, shared calendars and Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access.

Further licensing FAQ: www.microsoft.com/exchange/howtobuy/licensingfaq.mspx

Q. What’s new in Exchange Server 2007?
A. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides built-in protection technologies to help keep the e-mail system up and running and better protected from outside threats while allowing employees to work from wherever they are using a variety of clients, including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Web Access and mobile devices. Exchange Server 2007 makes it easier for IT to deliver these new capabilities to their organisations by making the messaging environment easier to manage and more cost-efficient.

Q. How does Exchange Server 2007 integrate with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007?
A. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provides the most complete e-mail messaging, calendaring, contacts and tasks functionality available in an Exchange Server-compatible client. When used with Exchange Server 2007, Office Outlook 2007 users benefit from the new Scheduling Assistant, which automates time-consuming meeting and resource scheduling and the ability to plan and customise out-of-office communications, as well as Managed E-Mail Folders to facilitate compliance with internal and regulatory policies. Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 also combine to enhance security with approaches that are easy to use and let users confidently send and receive sensitive business communications using e-mail.

Q. What are the Exchange Server 2007 licensing options?
A. Customers can choose to purchase the Exchange Server Enterprise Client Access Licence (CAL) or the Exchange Server Standard CAL. The Exchange Server Enterprise CAL is sold as an add-on to the Exchange Server Standard CAL. Two server editions will continue to be offered: Exchange Server Enterprise Edition and Exchange Server Standard Edition. Either CAL can be run against either server edition.

Q. What is the difference between the Exchange Server Enterprise CAL and the Exchange Server Standard CAL?
A. In addition to the improvements and new capabilities of the Exchange Server Standard CAL, the Exchange Server Enterprise CAL includes unified messaging, advanced compliance capabilities and anti-virus and anti-spam protection (on-premise and hosted).

To take advantage of the Hosted Services (AV/AS) within the Exchange Server Enterprise CAL customers have to buy Software Assurance. This applies to all licensing types except Open Business where no services are available. This option does not include the right to Forefront Security for Exchange or Exchange Hosted Filtering.

Exchange Server 2007 Standard CAL versus Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
Based on customer feedback, Microsoft focused on three key areas for Exchange Server 2007 - Anywhere Access, Operational Efficiency and Built-In Protection, providing great advancements in each of these areas. Additionally, we heard that customers wanted more choice in selecting the features that would best meet their business needs. Based on this, we are offering the Exchange Server Standard CAL, which is designed for organisations that require a feature-rich messaging environment, and the Exchange Server Enterprise CAL, which is the Exchange Server Standard CAL plus unified messaging and multi-tiered AV/AS.

Exchange Server Requirements:
www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/sysreqs/default.mspx

Exchange Server 2010 Overview: www.microsoft.com/exchange/
Exchange Server 2010 Case Study: www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/case-studies.aspx
Exchange Server 2010 Technical Library: www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/technical-resources.aspx
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