Product Overview
Secure by design, secure by default
High standards of security are available with both Exchange Server 2003/2007 and Windows Server 2003, in keeping with the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing initiative. Exchange protects both your messaging environment and your privacy.
- Distribution lists restricted to authenticated users. You can allow only sending from authenticated users or specify which users can or cannot send mail to specified distribution lists.
- Support of real-time Safe and Block lists. Reduce the amount of unsolicited mail delivered to your organisation with connection filtering.
- Inbound recipient filtering. Reduce unsolicited email messages by filtering inbound messages based on the recipient. Messages that are addressed to users that are not found, or to whom the sender does not have the permissions to send are rejected. This applies only to messages sent by anonymously authenticated users.
- Kerberos authentication between a front-end and back-end server. To help ensure that credentials are secure, Exchange 2003/2007 uses Kerberos delegation when sending user credentials between a front-end server, such as Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access or Outlook Mobile Access and a back-end server such as the mailbox store.
- Privacy protection in Outlook and Outlook Web Access. By default, content from outside your network is blocked in Outlook 2003/2007 and Outlook Web Access. This feature helps prevent spammers from identifying valid email addresses through links to external content. You can, however, override this feature to view external content.
- Virus Scanning API 2.5. Third-party antivirus products can run on servers running Exchange 2003/2007 that do not have resident Exchange mailboxes and are allowed to delete and send messages to the sender.
- Antispam integration with Outlook 2003/2007 and Outlook Web Access. You can upload the Safe and Block Senders List to Exchange 2003/2007 for filtering.
- Clustering security. Exchange 2003/2007 clustering supports Kerberos authentication against an Exchange virtual server. Exchange 2003/2007 also supports Internet Protocol security (IPSec) between front-end servers and clustered back-end servers running Exchange.
- Administrative permissions. Cross-forest support and the ability to administer both Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 helps organisations that have segmented the administration of their Microsoft Windows®-based environment and Exchange environment into two unique groups and are concerned about security.
- Restricted relaying. You can restrict relaying to a limited number of security principles through the standard Windows 2000 discretionary access control list (DACL). The ability to grant relaying to an IP address is still present.
- Restricted submissions. You can restrict submissions to a limited number of security principles through the standard Windows 2000 DACL. This feature helps prevent blocked senders from sending to internal-only distribution lists by spoofing, which is the practice of tricking users into providing passwords and other information to allow unauthorized access into a system.
- Public folder permissions for unknown users. Folders with distinguished names in access control lists that cannot be resolved to security identifiers drop the unresolvable distinguished names.
- Public folder store replication. Public folder servers replicate with local servers for updates even if the local servers do not have the full set of replication content that they need. You can use a registry key to identify the first server that is used for backfilling.
Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Exchange 2007
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is designed to deliver increased protection for your business and give anywhere access for your employees, while being operationally efficient to deploy, manage and maintain. Should you upgrade? Here are ten reasons for you to consider. For more information, peruse the detailed features listing and compare features across versions to help you discover all that Exchange Server 2007 has to offer.
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Keep your e-mail system running at lower cost |
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Access e-mail, voice mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, anytime |
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Get affordable, enterprise-class mobile messaging that’s better than ever |
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Empower employees with unified messaging while saving money |
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Get comprehensive protection from spam, viruses and phishing attacks *Exchange Hosted Filtering and Forefront Security for Exchange Server are included with the Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise CAL license. |
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Reduce compliance risk in a way that makes sense for your business |
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Take advantage of powerful Web access
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Boost administrator productivity with new tools |
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Ease deployment and management **The exception is the Edge Transport role that is intentionally designed to reside by itself in the perimeter network. |
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Optimize your investment for future growth |
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