Key Upgrade Benefits to Exchange 2007
• Improve performance with 64-bit native support. Leverage on those 64-bit boxes. Larger mboxes, increased scalability. More users/server
• HA at lower-cost. Geo-HA. Reduce tape backup costs. With CR
• Unified Messaging † receive email, voice mail and faxes in a single inbox. Access via regular MAPI, web, phone
• Unified Communications Support
• Security:
o Multi server roles
o Comprehensive protection from AS, AV, phishing. Integrated . Edge server has multi-prong filtering at the DMZ
o Forefront for Exchange
▪ Enterprise CAL has Exchange Hosted Filtering and Forefront for Exchange Server
• Anywhere access to vital comms † email, voice mail and calendars, from variety of clients and devices
• Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Exchange Server 2007
Exchange 2007 Server Roles
• Mailbox Server † hosts MBs, PFs, Core services incldg calendaring
• Client Access † Provides OWA, mobility connectivity as well as Web Services
• Hub Transport † Internal msg routing and encryption
• Unified Messaging † integrates with PBX systems for voice mail, fax receiving, voice access svcs
• Edge Transport † in DMZ. Only server role that cannot reside on same server as other roles. SMTP gateway, provides AV AS and messaging security svcs
• New Server Roles in Exchange Server
Exchange Business Continuity. MSEx 2k7 provides OOTB HA, clustering and DR capabilities. Continuous Replication enables database redundancy, supports geo sites. Uses log shipping to replicate changes.
Time recovered from storage, server and site-level failures greatly reduced as a database copy is available for immediate reactivation
• Local Continuous Replication (LCR) † copies onto the same server
• Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) † combines log shipping with failover/mgt features from MSCS. A/P MSCS pairs provide complete redundancy...