Exchange 2007 Overview

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 Overview

Eduardo Dardet

Account Technology Specialist

Microsoft Corporation

Michael Brunetti Account Technology Specialist Microsoft Corporation

Exchange Server Roadmap

October 2003

Exchange

2003

Office System

May 2004 Exchange 2003 SP1

Sept 2004 ExBPA

October 2005 Exchange 2003 SP2

Available Now Ex07 Beta 1 ExBPA v2.5, add’l tools Hosted Exchange

FrontBridge services Sybari AV

Late 2006/Early 2007 Ex07 Planned

Availability Ex07-optimized servicesMid 2006

Ex07 CTP Ex07 Beta 2

IT Pro Situation

E-mail is mission

critical

E-mail systems too

complex/expensive

Management tasks

tedious, not

automated

Control

Org-wide Situation

Security the top concern

Spam & viruses compromise the e-mail experience

Regulatory compliance critical

in many industries

Active protection

Info Worker Situation

Inbox value and

access

Users want easy access to all their communications

Mobile devices are increasingly

common

Calendaring is frustrating

Exchange 2007 Themes

Simplified Deployment and Management

New console GUI

Scriptable command line UI

Automatic client connection

New server role-based deployment

Exchange Cmdlets (Business Logic)

A D

Registr y MAPI

Process

boundary

MetaBas e PowerShell Engine

Console

Shell Setup

Toolset Architecture

Exchange Setup

Installation is easy, flexible and complete

Simple install (GUI based) Fully automated install (Script based)

What’s new

Server role-based setup Automating Exchange setup Deployment guidance

Exchange Management Console

Simple, intuitive and organized

Easy to discover and find things Lowers training cost and shortens proficiency cycle

What’s new

Simplified navigation Pickers and Wizards Rich filtering

Customized views

Exchange 2003

Exchange 2007

Navigation Tree Comparison

Exchange Management Shell

Simple, flexible and powerful

No scripting knowledge required Protective measures

(for example, WhatIf, Confirm, Prompting) Significantly reduces

labor cost

What’s new

Automate all admin actions One-liners are easy

Change many objects Import/Export is a snap Reporting abound

Move Mailbox

Microsoft Confidential – Presentation Under NDA

Exchange 2007 Server Roles

Exchange 2007 Server Roles

E12 Edge

Exchange 2007 Enterprise Topology

Enterprise network

Mailbo x Mailbox

Edge Transport

Other

SMTP

Servers

Hub Transport

Routin g

Hygien

Voice Messagin g

Unified Messaging Applications:

OWA

Protocols:

ActiveSync, POP, IMAP, RPC / HTTP …

Programmability:

Web services, Web

parts

Client Access

PBX or VoIP

I N T E R N E

Folders

Fax

32-bit

Exchange

64-bit E12

“With the 32-bit systems in place today, we are only able to use

approximately 20 per cent of the space on our storage area

networks We expect the move to 64-bit server to increase

utilization significantly, resulting in tremendous cost savings.”

- Dan Wills, Vice President of Operations, USA.NET Inc.

Control

Large, Low-cost Mailboxes with 64-bit

Reduce IO/ sec req’d by 70%

¼ the disk 4x more users Large inboxes

Windows OS Configuration

Exchange 2007 must be installed on Windows 2003 SP1 or later

Active Directory: GC’s and FSMO roles must be Windows

2003 SP1 or later

Windows Components

NNTP Service must not be installed SMTP Service does not have to be installed

(It will be disabled during Setup if found.) Mailbox and Client Access Roles require WWW service

Additional Components

.NET Framework 2.0*

Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0*

Windows PowerShell 1.0 (aka Monad)

*These are included in Windows Server 2003 R2

Exchange Organization needs

to be in Exchange Native Mode

Routing Group Connector is required between Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007

Exchange 2003 Front-ends cannot talk to Exchange Server

2007 Mailbox Server Roles

Verify Recipients meet new

validation requirements

Exchange Server

Interoperability Requirements

High Availability Goals and Cuts

Goals:

Data Availability

Protect mailbox data from failures and corruptions

Service Availability

Improve cluster failover operation Simplify cluster management

Support stretch/geo-cluster Enable low cost large mailboxes (GB+)

Increase solution availability

Enable solutions using lower cost storage hardware

Microsoft Confidential – Presentation Under NDA

Activ

e

ive

Control

High Availability at Lower Cost

Backups used for Disaster Recovery

Full and incremental backups from replica without production impact Move full backups from nightly to weekly

Dumpster interval increased from 3 to 14 days for user deleted item self-restore