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EdgeCore Technologies now offers Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to our lineup of Unified Communication Solutions.
Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging is a built-in component of Exchange Server 2007, which allows Microsoft Exchange to replace legacy voice mail systems. There are numerous advantageous of Exchange Unified Messaging over these legacy systems including increased productivity and substantial cost savings for end customers.
Exchange Server 2007 is the next version of Exchange Server, the industry's leading server for e-mail, calendaring, and unified messaging. The release of Exchange Server 2007 is closely aligned with the Microsoft Office 2007 wave of products, which together deliver a best-in-class enterprise messaging and collaboration solution.
Exchange Server 2007 provides built-in protection technologies to help keep the e-mail system up and running and insulated from outside threats while allowing employees to work virtually anywhere, using clients such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, and mobile devices. Exchange Server 2007 makes it easier for IT administrators to deliver these new capabilities to their organizations in a manageable and cost-effective manner.
Outlook 2007 provides the most complete e-mail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks functionality available in an Exchange-compatible client. When used with Exchange Server 2007, Outlook 2007 users benefit from new features such as the Scheduling Assistant, which automates time-consuming meeting and resource scheduling, to Managed Folders, which serve to facilitate compliance with internal and regulatory policies. To learn more about how Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2007 work together, see Better Together: Do More with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
IP-PBX and PBX SupportMicrosoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging relies on an IP/VoIP gateway that can receive incoming calls from a legacy Private Branch eXchange (PBX) or on an IP/PBX that can receive incoming calls and then correctly forward those incoming calls to a Unified Messaging server in your organization. This topic discusses some issues that can occur when you are interoperating IP/PBXs and PBXs. This topic also gives you information and links to the appropriate resources for successfully deploying Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging.
Important: We recommend that all customers who plan to deploy Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging obtain the assistance of a Unified Messaging specialist. A Unified Messaging specialist helps you make sure that there is a smooth transition to Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging from a legacy voice mail system. Performing a new deployment or upgrading a legacy voice mail system requires significant knowledge about PBXs and Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging.
IP-PBX Support: An IP/PBX is a telephone switching system inside an enterprise that switches calls between Voice over IP (VoIP) users on local lines and lets all users share a certain number of external telephone lines. The typical IP/PBX can also switch calls between a VoIP user and a traditional telephone user, or between two traditional telephone users much like a conventional PBX does. With a conventional PBX, you must have separate networks for voice and data communications. One of the main advantages of an IP/PBX is that it uses converged data and voice networks. This means that network access, in addition to VoIP communications and traditional telephone communications, are all possible by using a single line to each user. Like a traditional PBX, an IP/PBX is typically owned by an organization. There are many manufacturers of IP/PBXs. However, for an IP/PBX to interoperate with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging, the IP/PBX generally must support the following:
However, even if a specific IP/PBX supports these protocols, there is no guarantee that the IP/PBX will successfully interoperate with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging. Correctly configuring your organization's IP/PBXs is a difficult deployment task that must be completed to successfully deploy Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging. To help answer questions and give you the most up-to-date IP/PBX configuration information, see the Telephony Advisor for Exchange Server 2007 Web site. This Web site gives you IP/PBX configuration notes and files that are required to correctly configure your organization's IP/PBXs to work with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging.
PBX Support: A PBX, sometimes known as a telephone switch or telephone switching device, is a device that connects office telephones in a business to the public telephone network. The central functions of a PBX are to route incoming calls to the appropriate extension in an office, and to share telephone lines between extensions. Users of the PBX share a certain number of outside lines for making telephone calls external to the PBX. Most medium-size and larger organizations use a PBX because it is much less expensive than connecting an external telephone line to every telephone in the organization. In addition, it is easier to call someone that has an extension number within the same PBX because the number that you dial is typically merely three or four digits. Correctly configuring your organization's PBXs is frequently one of the more difficult deployment tasks because PBXs are very different and their functionality depends on the PBX model and software that is installed. To help answer questions and give you the most up-to-date PBX configuration information, see the Telephony Advisor for Exchange Server 2007 Web site. This Web site gives you PBX configuration notes and files that are required to correctly configure your organization's PBXs to work with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging.
Exchange Server 2007 and SBSExchange Server 2007 will be an integral part of the "Longhorn" (code name for the next Windows release) version of Small Business Server (SBS). SBS is expected to be released six to twelve months following the release of the "Longhorn" version of Microsoft Windows Server.
Exchange Server 2007 and 64-Bit (A Must Read)Exchange has been operating within the same 32-bit architecture for the past 10 years, since Exchange 4.0. The messaging environment has evolved over time into a mission-critical application for most businesses today, and demands placed on messaging systems will continue to grow. We witness this growth through the increase of e-mail traffic and larger attachments that now require larger mailboxes to store these messages. Users are also accessing their e-mail in more ways, such as with mobile devices, through Web browsers using Outlook Web Access, and other applications, including Microsoft Office Communicator, MSN desktop search, and Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications.
Trends indicate that demands on messaging systems will continue to grow and 64-bit servers provide the system architecture to meet these demands while reducing costs within organizations through server and disk storage consolidations. With a larger addressable space, the Exchange servers can utilize more memory thereby reducing the required input/output per user (IOPS), enabling the use of larger disks as well as low cost storage such as SATA2 drives. Testing at Microsoft has shown an IOPS decrease of approximately 70 percent with Exchange Server 2007 on 64-bit hardware. Early customer deployments have been able to directly translate this into an increased utilization of current drives in their storage area networks (SAN) as well as new direct attached storage (DAS) topologies, thus significantly reducing their storage costs, which make up roughly 80 percent of hardware capital costs today.
Exchange Server 2007 will support servers with x64 processors. Most new servers today ship with processors from Intel and AMD that include this x64 support, called Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) by Intel and AMD64 by AMD. Exchange Server 2007 will not offer support for Itanium (IA-64) processors, which are intended for more processor-intensive database and business applications.
To deploy Exchange Server 2007, you will need an x64 edition of Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2003 R2. Volume-licensing customers are free to exchange their 32-bit version of Windows for the 64-bit version at any time, using their media kits.
Exchange Server 2007 will not require 64-bit clients; 32-bit clients (such as Outlook) will be able to connect without issue to Exchange Server 2007 servers.
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