Top 10 new features in Exchange Server 2010

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Exchange 2010, announced on April 15, 2009, the most important aspects of E2010 are

1. Most of Exchange 2007 has been rewritten to better support large-scale deployments. Among other things, it has delegated administration with a much richer set of permissions. Far more work can now be pushed down to users and user-level administrators, with a lot of flexibility

1. There’s a centralized policy definition and management system. This is based on mainstream regular expression pattern matching and simple boolean logic, applying to message content and metadata, and for users and groups of users. Polices can be enforced manually or through user intervention. The policy framework is used in a variety of contexts, such as for data leak prevention, rights management, determining what is archived, and retention policy

E2010 has many other improvements, many of which will be appreciated by users or administrators. They include

1. The Windows Mobile experience is now very close to that of desktop Outlook.
2. With “MailTips,” users are automatically warned about potential faux pas when an an email is about to be sent, such as when a distribution list will cause it to be received by a very large number of people, or when the email is so large it’s likely to bounce, or when recipients are out of the office.
3. OWA now supports all the main browsers including Safari and Firefox, not just IE.
4. Email conversations are much easier to manage via the updated Conversation View.
5. Voicemail previews: Text previews are generated of voicemail in Outlook, OWA, and Outlook Mobile. This saves a lot of time when quickly scanning through voice messages.
6. Free/busy times can be exchanged with outside parties, not just internal colleagues, with due privacy controls.
7. User-customizable voicemail menu hierarchies