What’s New in Exchange 2010?
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 brings a new and rich set of technologies, features, and services to the Exchange Server product line. New features and functionality in Exchange 2010 support several key concepts:

• Flexible and reliable - The pressure to optimize your IT infrastructure to respond to changing business conditions demands agility and that means investing in solutions that provide you and your organization choice. Exchange 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your organization's unique needs and a simplified way to help keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
• Anywhere access- Enhancements in Exchange 2010 helps users get more done by helping them to access all of their communications—e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging—from virtually any platform, Web-browser, or device through industry standard protocols. Managing the flow of information into and out of an individual’s inbox daily can create overload and affect productivity and profitability. In response to this challenge, Exchange 2010 adds new productivity features that can help users more easily organize and effectively prioritize their communications.
• Protection and compliance - Exchange 2010 delivers new, integrated e-mail archiving and retention functionality, including granular multi-mailbox search and immediate legal hold. Exchange 2010 also helps you to better protect your company’s communications and e-mail through centrally managed information control capabilities. This includes the ability to more effectively intercept, moderate, encrypt, and block e-mail messages. Together, this functionality provides you with a flexible range of protection and control options, whether you want to automatically enforce controls or empower users to implement their own data protection.

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Features:

• Multi-layered, anti-spam filtering with continuous updates helps guard against spam and phishing threats
• A variety of storage options allows you to give users bigger and more reliable mailboxes
• Support for the web browsers and devices you use most means you can work from virtually anywhere
• Available as a server you manage yourself or hosted by Microsoft while you maintain control of settings

Exchange Online
With Exchange Online, users can access their mailboxes from wherever they go, with full support for Outlook, a premium web browser experience, and access from a wide range of mobile phones.

• Large, 25 GB mailboxes are standard for every user so they can access all essential information in one place
• Seamless integration with Outlook so your users can enjoy a rich, familiar email experience and offline access
• Calendar sharing allows users to see free/busy information with colleagues, even if they work at another company
• Email archiving, eDiscovery Search, retention policies, and optional legal hold help preserve and discover data
• Security policies let you create approved mobile device lists, enforce PIN lock, and remotely wipe data from lost phones
• Free tools for migrating IMAP and Exchange Server mailbox data to Exchange Online

Exchange Server
With Exchange, users can access their mailboxes from wherever they go, with full support for Outlook, a premium web browser experience, and access from a wide range of mobile devices.

• More storage options make it possible to offer users low cost large mailboxes so they can access all their essential information in one place
• Calendar sharing allows users to share free/busy information with colleagues, even if they work at another company
• Email archiving, eDiscovery Search, retention policies, and legal hold to help you preserve and discover data
• Security policies let you create approved mobile device lists, enforce PIN lock, and remotely wipe data from lost phones
• Choice of deployment options including Exchange Server on-premises, Exchange Online in the cloud, and hybrid deployment options

Is it time for your organization to look at Microsoft Exchange 2010? Take the time to contact your Firehouse Networks Consultant for more information.