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Today at the Tech-Ed Europe 2009 conference, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announched that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now available. Microsoft Exchange 2010 comes with a new simplified cluster technology (DAG) which will replace LCR, CCR, SCR and SCC. It wil be possible to integrate your Exchange Server 2010 installation with Microsoft Exchange hosting services. Unified Messaging is now able to give a text preview of your voicemail messages. OCS 2007 presence info will be available in Oulook Web Access. These are just some of the many new features!

Exchange 2010 RTM is now available on Technet Plus and MSDN. Download a copy and try out all those great new features!

For more information about Exchange Server 2010 look at www.msexchangeteam.com

The guys from the MS Exchange Team announced a new release of the remote connectivity analyzer. This webbased tool can help you troubleshooting connectivity problems like Active Sync and RPC / HTTP (Outlook Anywhere).

New/Updated Features:

• Updated user interface
• New CAPTCHA implementation. (This is the hard to read words that make you prove you are a human)
• No more ‘Beta’ label
• Additional tests
• Exchange Web Services – This allows you to perform connectivity testing for Exchange Web Services client such as Entourage. Developers can also use the Service Account Verification test to ensure things are configured and working properly for access with an alternate account or ExchangeImpersonation.
• Outbound SMTP – Performs Reverse DNS testing, DNS RBL Checks, and SenderID validation against a provided “outbound” IP address
• Updated the Outlook Anywhere test logic to work with Exchange 2010
• Added a link in the footer to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer TechNet forum
• Added a password confirmation text box to ensure the proper password was entered before running a test. This will reduce the number of tests that fail simply due to a typo in the password.

Go to the MS Exchange Team blog for more information. www.msexchangeteam.com

Link to tool: https://www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com

Okay, I know this will be old news for the most of you. Most of Exchange IT pro’s allready have downloaded Exchange 2010 RC. If you have missed the news, the 120-days free release is available for download here:  http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/try-it.aspx

Steve Bink wrote about some new Exchange 2010 rumors. On his weblog he wrote about rumors from partners telling him Exchange 2010 will be RTM soon. Microsoft responded on his article, telling him it’s not finished yet. Before Exchange 2010 RTM release there will be at least 1 Release Candidate (RC) release, which will be publicity available. On October 12, Exchange 2010 will be officially launched together with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 at “the new efficiency” launch event. So I expect a Exchange 2010 RC release very soon!

One of the new features that will be included with the next release of Microsoft Exchange Server (2010) is anwsering rules. A mailbox user will be able to create his personal auto attended from within Outlook Web Access (also know as Outlook Live).  With a anwsering rule you can dicate how a call should be handled. The guys from the MS Exchange Team wrote a nice blog post about this new feature.

Click here to read the blog post.

Microsoft has change the name of Exchange 14 to Exchange 2010. The first beta of Exchange 2010 is avaible now. Exchange 2010 is the first beta release of the WAVE14  products like MS Office 2010 and MOSS 2010.

Download: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta
More about Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 visit http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010

Overview

Microsoft Exchange® Server 2010 Beta helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.

• Flexible and reliable – Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your company’s unique needs and a simplified way to keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
• Anywhere access – Exchange Server 2010 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all their communications – e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more – from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.
• Protection and compliance – Exchange Server 2010 delivers integrated information loss prevention, and compliance tools aimed at helping you simplify the process of protecting your company’s communications and meeting regulatory requirements.

This software is intended for evaluation purposes only. You must accept the license terms before you are authorized to use this software. There is no product support for this trial software. You are welcome to participate in the forums to share your trial experiences with others and to ask for advice.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1

• Operating System for Installing Management Tools: The 64-bit editions of Microsoft® Windows Vista® SP1 or later, or Windows Server® 2008.
• PC – x64 architecture-based computer with Intel processor that supports Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as Intel EM64T) or AMD processor that supports the AMD64 platform

Additional requirements to run Exchange Server 2010 Beta

• Memory – Minimum of 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM per server plus 5 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended for each mailbox
• Disk space
  • At least 1.2 GB on the drive used for installation
  • An additional 500 MB of available disk space for each Unified Messaging (UM) language pack that you plan to install
  • 200 MB of available disk space on the system drive
• Drive – DVD-ROM drive, local or network accessible
• File format – Disk partitions formatted as NTFS file systems
• Monitor – Screen resolution 800 x 600 pixels or higher

Exchange Server 2010 Beta Prerequisites
If these required prerequisites are not already installed, the Exchange Server 2010 Beta setup process will prompt and provide links to the installation locations; Internet access will be required if the prerequisites are not already installed or available on a local network.

• Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5
• Windows PowerShell v2
• Windows Remote Management

Actual requirements will vary based on system configuration and specific features installed. For more detailed system requirements, please refer to the Exchange Server 2010 Technical Documentation Library.

For a list of Windows Server 2008 requirements, visit http://technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2008.