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E2K7 SP1 Beta 2 Released

Starting today, Microsoft is making Beta 2 of Exchange Server Service Pack 1 available to the general public.

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.

Here's a list of the latest features available with Beta 2:

• SCR ready for Production use.
• OWA
• New OWA themes (X-Box, Zune)
• Supporting digital signatures with certificate that do not have email addresses 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 for Beta 2:
• Full Access permission management for mailboxes and mail-enabled public folders
• Preview of AL/EAP/DL with custom filter
• More ActiveSync policy settings
• 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).

Read the full Press Release: Microsoft Unveils Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 in Technology Preview