subject: exchange

Exchange 2007 SP1

After some speculation about Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2007, the Microsoft Exchange Team has finally published official information about the subject: Talking Exchange 2007 SP1...

First Beta will be released in April and the final release is targeted to the second half of this year, probably at the same time of RTM version of Longorh Server. Here's a list of SP1 improvements:

Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)
For such a great feature, we obviously needed a new name! With Exchange 2007, we introduced Clustered Continuous Replication (CCR) for replication of data between 2 servers within a cluster within the same datacenter. With SCR, data replicates to a non-clustered server in a remote datacenter. If the primary datacenter becomes unavailable, the standby replica in the second datacenter is readily available to be activated.

Mobility
We'll have new policies for:

• Enforcing encryption of main memory contents on device
• Enforcing which applications are allowed/blocked from running on the device
• Enforcing networking capabilities: disable wifi, Bluetooth, infrared, external storage
• Enforcing communication capabilities: disable SMS, MMS, POP/IMAP, disable camera

OWA
SP1 will fill in the feature holes that we just didn't have time to complete by RTM:

• Personal distribution lists
• S/MIME
• Rules
• Monthly calendar view
• Deleted items recovery
• Public folder access

OWA 2007 SP1 spell checking will add support for:

• Arabic
• Korean

OWA 2007 SP1 will add support for viewing Office 2007 file formats as HTML.

Exchange Management Console
SP1 will fill in the GUI holes that we just didn't have time to complete by RTM, including:

• Public folder configuration
• POP and IMAP configuration
• SendAs permission configuration
• Delegation wizard scenarios

Web Services
New web service coverage will include:

• Public folder access
• Delegate management
• Folder permission management

IPv6
On Longhorn Server, we will support Exchange 2007 on native IPv6 networks.

Move Mailbox
This vital tool administrator tool has been beefed up to include import and export to a .pst

Eileen Brown has some additional information about the subject: Exchange 2007 Sp1: Disclosure or not?