Exchange 2010: An Overview and Why IT Should Care (Part 3 of 3)
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As we discussed in Part 1 and Part 2, Microsoft Exchange 2010 represents a new generation of Microsoft server technology that is built from the ground up to work on-premises and as an online service.
The rising cost of communications is driving many Canadian companies to find more efficient and cost effective ways to deliver and support such a mission-critical business asset. Particularly as the importance of e-mail communications in the workplace continues to grow, IT managers are under increasing pressure to prevent e-mail outages and data loss. To help meet this need, Exchange Server 2010 reduces the cost and complexity of deploying an e-mail solution that provides the highest levels of server availability and site resilience. Building on the native replication capabilities introduced in Exchange Server 2007, the new high availability architecture in Exchange 2010 provides a simplified, unified framework for both high availability and disaster recovery. The result is greater uptime for end users, increased freedom for administrators, and decreased capital and operational costs for the organization.
Inbox overload is now a frequent issue for information workers. With the new Conversation View and Filtering feature, users can better organize and navigate their messages. Conversation view helps you put messages in context knowing both how they fit into the conversation thread as well as if they are a branch of the main conversation. This enables workers to manage a conversation as a single item in your inbox, including moving or "ignoring" all current and future messages within the conversation. Simply put, Conversation View represents a new paradigm for how workers read mail that will greatly enhance your productivity.
Mailbox databases and the data they contain are one of the most critical components - if not the most critical component - of any Microsoft Exchange organization. In Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you can protect mailbox databases and the data they contain by configuring your mailbox databases for high availability and site resilience. Exchange 2010 reduces the cost and complexity of deploying a highly available and site resilient messaging solution while providing higher levels of end-to-end availability and supporting large mailboxes.
Building on the native replication capabilities introduced in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the new high availability architecture in Exchange 2010 provides a simplified, unified framework for high availability and site resilience. 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 Server Database Availability Groups provide automatic failover at the database level, without the complexity of traditional clustering. A database-level disruption, such as a disk failure, no longer affects all the users on a server. Because there is no longer a strong connection between databases and servers, it is easy to move between database copies as disks fail. This change, coupled with faster failover times can help to dramatically improve an organization’s overall uptime.
Whether IT managers need to deliver reduce messaging costs, streamline operations to better manage information overload, or require secure and compliant communications tool to support a distributed workforce, Exchange Server 2010 can help companies achieve increased IT governance compliance with advanced tools to protect communications and manage the infrastructure. Reviewing all of three parts of this series will provide a compelling business and IT case for moving to Exchange Server 2010. The Windows-based solution helps IT managers improve the user experience and manage information overload.
Related content:
Exchange 2010: An Overview, and Why IT Should Care Parts 1 and 2
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Learn more about end of lifecycle support for previous versions of Microsoft Exchange Server
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