Exchange Server 2007 requires 64-bit systems and no longer supports in-place upgrades from Exchange 2003. It introduces a new role-based architecture and management tools. Key new features include improved high availability through storage group replication, enhanced antivirus and spam filtering, messaging policy compliance tools, and a redesigned Outlook Web Access. The new Edge Transport server role allows secure external access. Supported topologies include single forest and multiple forest configurations. Some legacy features like public folder access and coexistence with older versions are no longer available.

1. Exchange Server 2007

2. Requirements
• 64-bit is required for production servers
• No in-place upgrade from Exchange 2003
• 64-bit Xeon processor or Pentiums with EM64T (NOT the Itanium
or IA64)
• Any of the AMD64 processors (Opteron, Athlon and Turion)
• 32-bit is available for evaluation, but is not supported in
production
• System and Exchange partitions have to be formatted with
NTFS file system

3. Windows OS Configuration
• Exchange 2007 can be installed on
Windows 2003 SP1 or Windows 2003 R2
• 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 the
World Wide Web 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

4. Production versions of Exchange Server 2007 will run
only on 64-bit operating systems
32-bit operating systems:
Are limited by the memory address space
Create a disk I/O performance bottleneck
64-bit operating systems:
Can address up to 16 exabytes of memory
Can decrease disk I/O by up to 75%
New Features for Server Scalability

5. Exchange Server 2007 provides two new
management tools:
Exchange Management Console
Redesigned GUI
Exchange Management Shell
Simplified command-line and scripting tool
Other new administrative features include:
• Client Autodiscover
• Server role–based architecture
New Features for Messaging Administrators

6. Exchange Server 2007 provides:
The replica storage group can be used for backup
Local Continuous Replication to maintain two
copies of a storage group on the same server
Clustered Continuous Replication to maintain two
copies of a storage group on multiple servers
Deploy multiple servers in each server role to
provide redundancy
New Features for Availability

7. Exchange Server 2007 provides:
A new server role–based antivirus API
Forefront Security for Exchange Server
Spam filtering, including:
 Connection filtering, sender filtering, Sender ID filtering
and recipient filtering
 Automatic updating of spam filters
 Content filtering
 Sender reputation filtering
New Features for Messaging Security

8. Messaging policy compliance is required by both
government regulations and security and business rules
Exchange Server 2007 helps enforce policy
compliance by:
Providing transport rules to apply policies to
messages in transit
Messaging Records Management rules to apply
policies to messages in user mailboxes
Multi-mailbox search capabilities
Message journaling to a Windows SharePoint
Services list
New Features for Messaging Policy
Compliance

9. Exchange Server 2007 provides:
Outlook Web Access enhancements
Unified Messaging
Out-of-Office Assistant enhancements
Calendar Concierge
Improved mobile access to e-mail
New Features for Exchange Server
Users

10. In Exchange Server 2007, servers are installed with
specific functional roles:
Hub Transport server role
Mailbox server role
Edge Transport server role
Client Access server role
Unified Messaging server role
Exchange Server Roles Overview

11. DMZ
Exchange 2007
Edge Server
Windows Server
Exchange 2007
Edge
Transport
Windows Server
Exchange 2007
Client
Access
Hub
Transport
Mailbox Unified
Messaging
Intranet
Exchange
2007
Server Roller

12. Message Flow Overview
Hub Transport
server role
Mailbox
server role
Client Access
server role
Edge Transport
server role
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13. Supported Active Directory Forest Topologies
A single-forest topology
A multiple-forest topology
A resource-forest topology

14. What Features Are Not Available in Exchange Server 2007?
OWA access to public folders
IMAP and NNTP access to public folders
OMA
Coexistence with Exchange 5.5 Server
GroupWise and Lotus Notes connector and
migration tools
Administrative groups
Routing groups
Active/active Clustering
Interoperability with X.400 messaging systems

15. Updating Your Skills from
Microsoft® Exchange Server 2000 or
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Beta 2
Course 3938A