An e-mail system requires a minimum of certain features to pass muster in the enterprise. This slide show, focusing on Microsoft Exchange, takes a look at 10 things you need in your e-mail system. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, the cornerstone of the Microsoft Unified Communications solution, has long been a key choice of organizations to enable rich and productive collaboration among its users. The latest release of Exchange builds on this track record by helping users to lower IT costs with a flexible and reliable messaging platform, and to increase productivity through anywhere access to business communications. With Exchange Server 2010 you can cost effectively provide your users the freedom to securely access all of their communications—e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more—from virtually any platform, Web-browser, or device to get more done wherever they are. In addition, a new, unified approach to high availability and disaster recovery helps achieve new levels of reliability as it reduces the complexity and cost of delivering business continuity up to 80 percent. This slide show examines these and several other features that are must-haves for an e-mail system of today.
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: 10 Things You Need to Know
by Darryl K. Taft
Seamless Experience on PC, Phone, Browser
Whether you access your e-mail from Outlook, a smartphone, or your Internet browser, you should be able to read, sort, reply, delete the same way you normally do.
Access to E-Mail When Not Connected
Cached mode in Outlook gives you access to your e-mail when you aren’t on the Internet, all without having to install additional connector software.
MailTips
Early warning system • Out of office • External recipient • Reply all on BCC • Moderated Distribution List • Restricted recipient • Lots of recipients Know what you can’t do • Restricted Distribution List • Message size • Mailbox full
Multiple Ways to Organize E-Mail
Users can choose the e-mail organization methods that work best for them: Organize using Folders or Categories; apply actions automatically by setting Inbox rules; or create Search Folders to view messages that meet search criteria.
Multiple Ways to Find E-Mail
Users can take action on conversations, including Ignore; view conversations in context; hide repeated information; and view all messages.
Voicemail in Your Inbox
Exchange features a transformed voicemail experience with Exchange-powered voice mail enhancements like speech-to-text previews of received voice messages, and the flexibility for users to create customized voice mail menus and call-handling rules to ensure callers are given the right priority.
Calendar Sharing and Publishing
Users can share calendars internally or externally with trusted Exchange organizations (trust can be set by user or by domain, and once trust is set, everything is transparent), publish calendar in iCal format for anyone to see, or use the admin control for sharing and publishing
Multiple Ways to Ensure Important E-Mail is Read
Tools for prioritizing e-mail and making sure it gets delivered, reducing the chances that an important message will get lost in the shuffle.
Presence and IMing
Features enabled by Lync Online or Lync Server include presence throughout Outlook Web App, see-and-set presence, chat using IM, starting a chat from anywhere you see a user, and IM log-in from multiple locations.
Out of Office
An e-mail system must have out-of-office functionality and flexible out-of-office capabilities.
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An e-mail system requires a minimum of certain features to pass muster in the enterprise. This slide show, focusing on Microsoft Exchange, takes a look at 10 things you need in your e-mail system. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, the cornerstone of the Microsoft Unified Communications solution, has long been a key choice of organizations to enable rich and productive collaboration among its users. The latest release of Exchange builds on this track record by helping users to lower IT costs with a flexible and reliable messaging platform, and to increase productivity through anywhere access to business communications. With Exchange Server 2010 you can cost effectively provide your users the freedom to securely access all of their communications—e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more—from virtually any platform, Web-browser, or device to get more done wherever they are. In addition, a new, unified approach to high availability and disaster recovery helps achieve new levels of reliability as it reduces the complexity and cost of delivering business continuity up to 80 percent. This slide show examines these and several other features that are must-haves for an e-mail system of today.