Exchange 2010: Sneak Peek

There's plenty for e-mail administrators and end users to like in Exchange 2010 Product Test Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Dell Why virtualization? Why now? In this video, our speakers tackle these questions, explaining how virtualization technology has become more mainstream. Businesses are under pressure to ease management and reduce costs, while retaining and enhancing competitive advantages, such as flexibility, reliability, scalability and security. Watch now to see how virtualization can help address these demands. Spotlight Story Exchange 2010 beta sneak peek-test By Joel Snyder The first public beta of Microsoft's next version of Exchange, due out in the second half of this year, hits the streets today. Microsoft gave us early access and we had 10 days to put it through its paces in a VMware environment. Read full story Related News: Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Slideshow: Screenshots of the Exchange 2010 interface In this sneak peek at the newly released beta code for Microsoft's next Exchange upgrade, due in 2010, we found end user-friendly advancements in the Webmail interface and self-service management options. For administrators, there are usable scalability and reliability measures, more CLI support and role-based access controls. Exchange 2010: Webmail features on par with Outlook End-users accustomed to Web-based access to their personal e-mail through free Internet services such as Google's Gmail, expect the same power and access through a browser for their business e-mail. Exchange 2010 stands up very well to these high expectations. Exchange 2010: Better scalability and control for administrators While Exchange 2007 introduced a plethora of reliability and scalability features, Exchange 2010 helps to clean up what was really a confusing set of options. E-mail managers looking for guidance on building distributed Exchange networks will be pleased to see what has been pushed into Exchange 2010. (We weren't able to test most of these features, so our analysis is based on using the management GUI and reading the reviewers' guide provided by Microsoft.) April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. 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