Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Exchange 2007

Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of the public betas of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the new Forefront Security for Exchange Server. Exchange Server 2007 builds on the leading e-mail, messaging and calendaring server with new features for improved security, remote and mobile access, compliance management and unified messaging. Forefront Security for Exchange Server helps provide advanced protection against viruses, worms and spam, and is the first product available under the recently announced Microsoft Forefront brand for business security products.

Exchange Server 2007 beta 2 delivers the following:

· Built-in protective technologies enable confidential business communications while helping to meet compliance regulations.
· Increased productivity for employees is enabled by anywhere access to e-mail, voice mail, calendars and contacts from a variety of clients and devices.
· New levels of operational efficiency are possible through capabilities that optimise hardware and networking investments and features that help increase productivity for administrators.

· Advanced protection against viruses, worms, phishing and other threats by utilising up to five anti-virus engines simultaneously at each layer of the messaging infrastructure.
· Optimised performance through coordinated scanning across edge, hub and mail-server and features such as in-memory scanning, multi-threaded scanning processes and performance bias settings.
· Centralised management of remote installation, engine and signature updating, reporting and alerts through the Forefront Server Security Management Console.