Exchange 12 Features

Steven Bink, a guy in Holland has a good site; Bink.nu. He wrote this and I thought it would be interesting to get this raw data just as he sees it!

"OK I had no time yet to write a decent article I have on Exchange 12 based on sessions and interviews from the IT Forum. I will do that next week, for now get the facts based in my notes in no particular order:"

Role based deployment: Edge, Mailbox, Routing, client Access etc.
So no more need of OWA files or pub folders on all servers
50 Storage Groups total
50 databases total
Page size from 4k -> 6k
IO and large Mem optimized
Target 5MB RAM /user
Full command line support (Monad)
ESM completely re-written from scratch
90% of new code is managed code
Faster server startup
No more STM files!
14 day dumpster by default
Enable Large, low cost mailboxes
E12=0.25 IO/sec (Ex2k3 1.0)
Logfiles limit 2 billion
Low impact fast re-index
Multi mailbox search
Works with OL and OWA and Mobile Outlook
Local continuous backup, no tape needed
Remote continuous backup
Reduced TCO
Fast recovery (minutes)
No more PST's! expensive, legal risk.
Managed email folders, corporate assigned folders
Outlook Voice Access
Branding: Demo's used Beta1 named Exchange 2007
Binaries are version 8!
Only 64 bit, reported 1st by Bink.nu few months ago :)
No active/active cluster support
No more OMA support
NTTP?
Last version with public folders
Access intranet and files outside the office without VPN