Microsoft UC (Unified Communcation)

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 brings a rich set of technologies, features, and services to the Exchange Server product line. New features and functionality in Exchange 2010 support several key concepts for example:

• Flexible and reliable
• Anywhere access
• Protection and compliance

Flexible and Reliable

Exchange 2010 gives you the flexibility in your deployment based on your organization’s unique needs and a simplified way to help keep e-mail continuously and highly available for your users.

High Availability Functionality

Exchange 2010 integrates high availability into the core architecture of Exchange to enable customers of all sizes and in all segments to economically deploy a messaging continuity service in their organization.

Exchange 2010 includes many changes to its core architecture. In Exchange 2010, new features such as incremental deployment, mailbox database copies, and database availability groups work with other features such as shadow redundancy and transport dumpster to provide a new, unified platform for high availability and site resilience.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 reduces the cost and complexity for deploying an e-mail solution that provides the highest levels of server availability and site resilience. The new high availability architecture in Exchange 2010 provides a simplified, unified framework for both high availability and disaster recovery. Exchange 2010 integrates high availability into the core architecture of Exchange, enabling customers of all sizes and in all segments to be able to economically deploy a messaging continuity service in their organization.

Exchange Store and Mailbox Database Functionality

The following is a list of core store functionality that’s included or has been changed in Exchange 2010:

• Deprecated storage groups
• Mailbox databases no longer connected to the server object
• Improvements in Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) for high availability, performance, and database mobility
• Flattened Outlook store schema
• Enhanced reporting with public folders

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, means that they can access it from any 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, which contains granular multi-mailbox search and immediate legal hold. It also helps people to better protect their 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 people with a flexible range of protection and control options, whether they want to automatically enforce controls or empower users to implement their own data protection.