E12 - What's in and what's not...

I wanted to give you an intial heads up as to what to expect in E12 this post is just a very high level summary as to what you can expect to see in the next version of Exchange.

When appropriate I will go into more detail as and when.

ACCESS

• Unified Messaging
• Auto attendant w/speech recognition
• UM dial in access
• Improved OWA
• Scheduling assistant

PROTECTION (includes AV/AS, secure messaging and compliance)

• “flexible AV extensibility”
• Attachment filtering
• Built in anti-spam
• Automatic updates

MANAGEMENT / RELIABILTY

•         64-BIT
•         Server roles
• New System Manager console
• Scriptable command line console (Monad)
• Automatic client detection and configuration
• Replication

Also: DISCLOSED ON EXCHANGE BLOG

•         Public folders
•         De-emphasis or removal of some APIs and components