Top Reasons to Try Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Reduced deployment cost
Exchange Server 2010 helps you reduce costs by addressing common infrastructure requirements such as backup, email archiving, mobile email access, and voice mail with no need for third-party tools.

Simplified high availability and disaster recovery
Exchange Server 2010 introduces a simplified approach to high availability and disaster recovery to help you achieve new levels of reliability and reduce the complexity of delivering business continuity.

Easier administration and decreased dependence on the help desk
Exchange Server 2010 provides new self-service capabilities to help users perform common tasks without calling the help desk.

Greater mobility and flexible access
Exchange Server 2010 offers an enhanced universal inbox experience, which provides your users with access to all of their business communications from a single location.

Decreased inbox overload and increased productivity
Exchange Server 2010 adds new productivity features which help your users organize and prioritize the communications in their inboxes efficiently.

Transformed voice mail
With Exchange Server 2010, users can receive their voice mail messages in their inbox with text preview.

Simplified compliance
Exchange Server 2010 delivers new integrated email archiving functionality to help simplify compliance and discovery.

Safeguards for sensitive information
With centrally managed and enforced information protection and control capabilities, Exchange Server 2010 makes it easy to encrypt, control, and moderate your company's communications.

Reduced risk of malware and spam
Exchange Server 2010 actively helps protect your communications through built-in defenses against junk email and support for an array of third party security products.

Exchange Online - Get Access to Email, Shared Calendars, & Contacts from Anywhere

The power of Exchange email, calendar, and contacts with built-in functionality to help protect against viruses and spam at no extra cost giving customers anywhere access to mailbox data across PCs, the Web and mobile devices. It delivers reliability, availability and performance with a guaranteed 99.9% uptime and money-back service-level agreement (SLA) with 24/7, IT-level phone support and integrates with the same Microsoft Outlook and Office programs your users know, ensuring a minimal learning curve.

Exchange Online provides the core features of Exchange Server, so your users get the business-class messaging capabilities they need to be productive including:

• Large mailboxes: Each user gets 25 GB of mailbox storage standard and the ability to send attachments up to 30 megabytes (MB).
• Antivirus/anti-spam: Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange is included, providing multiple filters and virus-scanning engines to help protect your organization from spam, viruses, and phishing scams.
• Web-based access: For Web-client access, Outlook Web App provides a premium browser-based experience that matches the look and feel of the full Outlook client.
• Mobility: Mobile access is available from all phones capable of receiving e-mail, including Windows Phone, the iPhone, Android, Palm, Nokia, and Blackberry devices.
• Shared calendar and contacts: Users can compare calendars to schedule meetings with Exchange Online and have access to collaboration features like shared calendars, groups, global address list, external contacts, tasks, conference rooms, and delegation.
  

In addition to delivering powerful and familiar Exchange Server capabilities, Exchange Online greatly simplifies management and provides advanced security and reliability features to help your data remain safe in the cloud.

• Business continuity: Your data is continuously replicated to datacenters in different geographic locations providing advanced security and reliability features. Microsoft datacenters meet a wide variety of industry standards and certifications, including ISO 27001.
• Administration center: A centralized, Web-based administration console enables you to configure Exchange Online to manage subscriptions, provision users, reset passwords, and configure services from anywhere you have Internet access.
• Migration tools: Free migration tools are available to transfer historical mailbox data to your Exchange Online environment. IMAP-based tools allow basic migration of historical email from non-Exchange environments. For Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, and Exchange 2007, robust tools migrate all mailbox content, including e-mail, calendar items, contacts, and tasks.
  

Exchange Online is a flexible solution designed to meet the needs of companies with a wide variety of IT environments:

• Additional deskless worker options: A version of Exchange Online designed for employees who require fewer messaging features because they are infrequent users. This option provides a 500-MB mailbox with access to e-mail, calendar, contacts, and the company directory through the light version of Outlook Web App.
• E-mail coexistence: Maintain on-premises Exchange Server mailboxes and Exchange Online mailboxes in an integrated e-mail environment. This enables you to segment your users according to their messaging needs, and migrate to the cloud at the pace that is right for your organization.
• Outlook support: Users can connect to their copies of Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later to Exchange Online without a virtual private network (VPN) connection, making it easy for them to use the rich client application they know and use every day.

System Requirements

To run Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise Edition on 64-bit platforms, a customer needs:

• Hardware: A 64-bit computer with an Intel processor that supports Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T) or an AMD processor that supports the AMD 64 platform. Intel Itanium family IA64 processors are not supported.
• Operating system: The Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 64-bit operating system, Standard or Enterprise Edition, with Service Pack 2, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition.
• Operating system for installing management tools: The 64-bit editions the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, or Windows Server 2008. Note: This requirement is only for the installation of management tools.