Free/busy lookup. Exchange ActiveSync now enables your users to look at a contact’s calendar availability. Right from the contact information, a free/busy timeline show users when contacts are available for a call or meeting.
Nickname cache. By storing the e-mail addresses of recent recipients, the nickname cache helps your users address e-mail more quickly, providing a suggested name list as users type new e-mail addresses. This automatically populated list narrows itself as they type more letters of the recipient’s name. The cache includes recent recipients of e-mail sent from both Outlook Web App and Microsoft Outlook Mobile.
SMS sync. Your users can now send and receive SMS text messages from Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web App. Incoming messages, sent with Exchange ActiveSync to the user’s mobile device, are seen both in the usual SMS message location on the mobile phone and in the user’s e-mail inbox in Outlook or Outlook Web App.
Unified Messaging card. Your users can now read a preview of their voice mail, right from their mobile phone. The new Unified Messaging card allows them to see an automatically generated speech-to-text preview of voice mail stored in Exchange 2010. One key press lets them hear the voice mail audio or call the person who left the message.
New user interface. The new user interface for Outlook Mobile makes advanced features easier and more accessible. With a new, touch-friendly interface, your users can easily delete, mark as read, search for, and flag messages. A new simple folder access icon makes it easier than ever to sync and view folders, and a warning bar appears to help your users avoid common mistakes like replying to an e-mail they were BCC’d on.
Reply state. Now your users can see if they replied to or forwarded an e-mail just by looking at the icon on the device—regardless of whether they replied from the Outlook client or Outlook Web App.
Installable client. Upgrading your e-mail functionality doesn’t require you to update your users’ phones. All the latest features of Exchange Server are available to any mobile device running Windows Mobile 6.1 or later. Users of Exchange 2010 will be able to update Outlook Mobile to get the benefits of the latest version of Exchange ActiveSync on existing, compatible devices.
Allow, block, and quarantine control. Your administrators can now create allow and block lists for devices that connect using Exchange ActiveSync, giving you total control over which devices can connect to your Exchange Server. The allow, block, and quarantine feature allows you to create approved device lists for your organization and block specific devices when necessary. Administrators can set exceptions at the individual level and can quarantine any device not on the block or allow lists for additional evaluation.
Server search. Mobile devices have limited storage space, but your users rely on their e-mail boxes to contain months, or maybe years, of critical business communications. With Exchange ActiveSync, your users can choose to store as much of their mailbox as they like, and they can still have easy access to every message in the mailbox. If the information they want is not synced with their phones, they can easily search the server to find the message anywhere in the mailbox, including subfolders, and return that message to the phone.
HTML e-mail. Exchange ActiveSync sends e-mail in HTML so your users can view their e-mail the way it was meant to be seen—with tables, graphics, fonts, and colors displayed just as they are accustomed to seeing in their Outlook client on the PC.
Mobile management policies. Mobile e-mail is about more than just delivering a world-class e-mail experience on the go; it’s also about protecting your organization’s information. Exchange 2010 gives your IT administrators over 45 policies to easily, and flexibly, control the devices that connect to your messaging system—including security, encryption, applications, and network settings.
Message flagging. Your users can use their cell phones to read their e-mail and mark messages that need special follow up when they get back to their PC. With the ability to triage e-mail from a mobile device, your users’ PC time can be spent more productively.
