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Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2007 keeps your people securely connected - wherever, whenever and however they need. It includes built-in features to maintain e-mail availability, and to ensure your communications remain secure. For your IT department, Exchange Server 2007 simplifies provisioning for fixed and mobile devices in a manageable and cost-effective manner.

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Protect your messaging with robust built-in security features
Exchange Server 2007’s built-in defences against spam and phishing e-mails, as well as additional integrated filtering and multi-engine scanning capabilities, provide advanced protection against viruses and other e-mail threats.* Controls for messages in transport or requiring retention, plus flexible journaling, help you to meet organisational, legal and regulatory compliance requirements. To maintain business continuity, new data replication capabilities (local and clustered) keep the system highly available while limiting the need and frequency for tape backup. And to ensure your messaging remains secure, new encryption features for both internal and Internet-based messages help protect the confidentiality of messages in transit.

*Exchange Hosted Filtering and Forefront Security for Exchange Server are both available with the Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Client Access License.

Access messages anywhere
Exchange Server 2007’s new Exchange Unified Messaging goes beyond e-mail to deliver more types of communications to the inbox, including faxes and voice mail, as well as offering new capabilities such as voice access from any standard phone. A rich Outlook-like experience from any Internet connected computer with a supported browser provides encrypted access to the inbox, along with powerful search capabilities, and the ability to view different types of attachments. Exchange ActiveSync technology delivers an improved e-mail and calendaring experience on mobile devices, while offering enhanced device and security policy control. And to support team collaboration, enhanced calendaring, out-of-office, resource booking and meeting scheduling capabilities simplify team working and increase productivity.

Improve operational efficiency
With Exchange Server 2007, you can improve storage efficiency through the extended memory and larger cache of x64-based architecture, even as mailbox sizes increase - while more efficient routing ensures the optimum use of bandwidth. New graphical and command-line interfaces offer improved manageability and increased automation, while integrated tools simplify maintenance. Exchange Server 2007’s modular setup - along with server provisioning based on server roles and capabilities to automatically discover Outlook and mobile clients - significantly simplify the deployment process. And for development, the new Web services-based application programming interface (API) and .NET integration via Exchange Management Shell tasks enable rapid development for custom and third-party applications.

  • Processor
    • x64 architecture-based computer with Intel processor that supports Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as Intel EM64T)
    • AMD processor that supports the AMD64 platform
    • Intel Itanium IA64 processors not supported
    • Intel Pentium or compatible 800-megahertz (MHz) or faster 32-bit processor (for testing and training purposes only; not supported in production)
  • Memory
    • Minimum: 2 gigabytes (GB) of RAM
    • Recommended: 2 GB of RAM per server plus 5 megabytes (MB) of RAM per mailbox
    • Minimum based on number of storage groups
  • Paging file size
    • Equal to the amount of RAM in the server plus 10 MB
  • Disk space
    • At least 1.2 GB on the drive on which you install Exchange
    • An additional 500 MB of available disk space for each Unified Messaging (UM) language pack that you plan to install
    • 200 MB of available disk space on the system drive
    • In Exchange 2007 RTM, a hard disk drive that stores the message queue database on an edge rransport server or hub transport server with at least 4 GB of free space
    • In Exchange 2007 SP1, a hard disk drive that stores the message queue database on an edge transport server or hub transport server with at least 500 MB of free space
  • Drive
    • DVD-ROM drive, local or network accessible
  • Screen resolution
    • 800 x 600 pixels or higher
  • File format: Disk partitions formatted as NTFS file systems, which applies to the following partitions:
    • System partition
    • Partitions that store Exchange binary files
    • Partitions containing storage group files, including transaction log files
    • Partitions containing database files
    • Partitions containing other Exchange files
Operating system requirements
  • 64-bit processor:
    • Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition operating system with SP2
    • Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition with SP2, with Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI)
    • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition operating system with SP2
    • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition with SP2, with MUI
    • Windows Server 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition operating system with SP2
    • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition with SP2, with MUI
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition operating system with SP2
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition with SP2, with MUI
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition operating system with SP2
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2, Enterprise x64 Edition with SP2, with MUI
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition operating system with SP2
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2, Datacenter x64 Edition with SP2, with MUI
    • 64-bit edition of the Windows Server 2008 Standard operating system
    • 64-bit edition of the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system
    • 64-bit edition of the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system
  • To deploy Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008, you must install Windows Server 2008 on a computer that does not have Exchange installed, and then install Exchange 2007 SP1.
Office Communications Server 2007
  • Office Communications Server 2007 delivers streamlined communications for your users. It enables them to locate and communicate with the right person, right now, via the applications they use most.
  • New Features of Office Communications Server 2007, include the following:
    • On-premise Web conferencing
    • Group IM
    • Audio and video
    • Enterprise Voice
    • Microsoft RoundTable™ communications and archival system
    • Enhanced presence
    • Federation enhancements
    • Client applications
    • Simplified deployment and management
 

If you buy software ‘off the shelf’, known as Full Packaged Product (FPP), this is oriented to retail purchases for consumers or small business's. (If you're purchasing this product for a Small Business, you may also wish to consider Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 r2 which includes Exchange Server)

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