Here’s a short list of some of the new features in Exchange 2010. This is certainly not a comprehensive list, but gives you a flavor of the many enhancements.
- Built-in e-mail archiving, with full OWA and fat client access.
- Support for 10+GB mailboxes
- Shows OCS contacts and can send basic IMs via OWA
- Text preview of voicemail messages
- Create your own personal auto attendant and configure complex routing rules.
- Auto-complete cache is now server based so it works from OWA, fat clients and mobile devices.
- Federated calendaring for external business partners.
- No more SCC, SCR, SCC, LCR, a new single HA method that supports 16 copies of each database called DAG (Database availability group).
- Mailbox role can now host all other Exchange roles (except UM).
- Users remain online during mailbox moves.
- Role-based administration: Define a role, scope the role, assign users to the role.
- Self-service options for creating/managing DLs, personal data, etc.
- 70% reduction in IOPS from Exchange 2007.
- Transport based rules for automatically applying RMS policies to e-mail.
- Full OWA premium experience with Firefox and Safari
- Ignore e-mail threads so you never see all the future replies.
- Mail tool tips in Outlook 2010 notifies you before a message is sent of issues (OOF, quotas, max message size, etc.).
- Apply RMS policies to voicemail messages.
- Update the mobile Outlook client over the air.
- Can restore corrupt database store pages from other HA instances of the database.
- Certificate generation wizard in the EMC! No more command line certificate generation.
