We're wrapping up our Beta of Exchange 2007 SP1 (to be released through TechNet plus this April), and as always we wanted to discuss it publicly here first. We are targeting final release with Longhorn Server 2nd half of this year.
Our work in this service pack is purely in response to your feedback on earlier releases of Exchange 2007. A partial list of what you'll find included in this SP is:
Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)
Such a great feature obviously needed its own name!
With Exchange 2007, we introduced Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) for replication of data between 2 servers within a cluster. With SCR, data can be replicated on a per-storage group basis to standby servers or clusters. The SCR target, whether a single mailbox server or a cluster, can be placed inside the primary datacenter or in a remote location, ready to be manually activated if the primary server or datacenter fails.
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:
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
Over the next few months, people throughout the team will be posting about their SP1 work. Your feedback means everything to us.
Thank you for choosing Exchange,
- Terry
