During TechEd EMEA 2009 in Berlin, Microsoft has released Exchange 2010, a major upgrade to its suite known for messaging and collaboration that makes a great step towards the model software-plus-Services.

Exchange 2010 provides business users the tools necessary not only to create solutions on premise, namely, those that run directly on the servers of the company, but for creating web services and cloud-based. The new Exchange also promises to simplify the migration from one type of solution to another, allowing companies to quickly jump to solutions "on premise" solutions "in the cloud and vice versa.

Unlike the model software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model embraced by competitors like Google and Salesforce.com, where it is expected that all services in the cloud and then they turn to the Web, the S + S Microsoft adopts a hybrid approach Here the computing environment does not lie entirely on the Web.
According to Microsoft, the S + S provides greater flexibility than is SaaS, it allows you to choose where to run applications on the server side - in the cloud or on local systems - and what technology to use for construction and service delivery.

Microsoft is rolling out the concept behind the S + S in its forthcoming cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, which will integrate closely with Exchange 2010.

The latter also introduces new features for archiving, clustering at the database level and full integration with Outlook 2010, a client that promises to further simplify the management of corporate email.

Exchange 2010 is only available in 64-bit version, a choice that Microsoft is applying to all its enterprise-class software, and runs on Windows Server 2008 SP2 or R2.

At the Microsoft TechEd in Berlin has also announced the acquisition of technology Teamprise of SourceGear, which allows developers to use the popular open source Eclipse IDE to create applications with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

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The Microsoft Exchange Team has just announced that Exchange 2010 is now code complete and released to manufacturing. This means that Exchange 2010 is on schedule for general availability in early November. For more on this milestone announcement, see...(read more)

After a long period of tests, to a very limited rank of users, Exchange Server 2010, this will be its official name; will be made available in beta. Exchange 2010 will be an evolution in the version 2007 and will close up the part of cooperation and of working online, with a new version of OWA that will be more complete. About OWA, one of the new case of the full support to all types of browser and not as was the case until now, that the most complete were available at this LINK…

Registration is needed to download a BETA version

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The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol technical documentation set provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft protocols and extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to interoperate or communicate natively with Microsoft Office client and other server products.

The documentation set includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

The protocol specifications are available in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) which you can open using Adobe Reader, available at http://www.adobe.com

The self-extracting Zip file (Exchange_Protocols.zip) contains all of the client protocol documents. The readme file contains late-breaking information about the protocol specifications and the technical documentation set.

Download all .zip Document here from source by select “Exchange_Protocols.zip” the document are approx 43 Mb.

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See the "Legal Notice" section later in this document for important information.

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

This document contains the following sections:

• Features that are available in Exchange 2007 SP1
  
• Installing Exchange 2007 SP1
  
• Known issues
  
• Microsoft Outlook Web Access client features
  
• Legal notice

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Introduction

 

This download contains the latest XML and ExBPA.chm files. Use this package to update your existing installation of the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer. NOTE: If Internet connectivity is available, the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer will attempt to automatically update itself from the Internet. Where updates are being applied automatically, there is no need to download the Web Update Pack.

To find out which version of ExBPA.Config.xml is installed on your computer, click the 'About Exchange Best Practices Analyzer' link within the tool. The upper version number refers to the core application (e.g. 2.9.7926.0), the lower version is for the configuration XML file.

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Microsoft IT has released 4 new whitepapers that can give you an inside look at how Exchange Server 2007 is run within Microsoft:

• Exchange Server 2007 Design and Architecture at Microsoft

   

• Managing the Calendaring and Collaboration Process By Using Exchange Server 2007 Web Services

   

• Daily Operations with Exchange 2007

   

• Exchange Server 2007 Deployment Checklist

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