New features Available in Exchange Server 2007 SP2:

Hi friends,

We all know the release of the Exchange 2007 SP2, making news around the corner. The below is the brief information about the new features that are avaiable with the SP2.

1. VSS Enabled plug-in supports exchange aware backups. WSBExchange.exe is the core plug-in file which gets installed while installing SP2. This feature is only available for exchange 2007 hosted in windows server 2008, since windows server backup feature is not available in the windows server 2003. Though it has some limitations when compared to the third party exchange aware backup application like veritas,etc. For further details check,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221172(EXCHG.80).aspx

2. Enhanced Auditing options available. Using this we can have the granular auditing reports like folder access, message access in a mailbox, etc.

3. Improvement/change in the Schema Update. New Dynamic schema update method has been introduced in SP2, which will check for the conflicts when adding a new property to the schema which in turn will avoid the future conflicts.

4. Public folder quota management is the new improvement. Set-publicfolder is the cmdlet for this particular function.

5. Apart from the above, there are bunch of new cmdlets comes along SP2,

Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace

Export-Mailbox

Import-Mailbox

Move-Mailbox

New-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory

New-ManagedFolder

Restore-Mailbox

Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory

Set-CASMailbox

Set-IMAPSettings

Set-OABVirtualDirectory

Set-OrganizationConfig

Set-POPSettings

Set-PublicFolder

Set-TransportConfig

Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity

Test-OwaConnectivity

Test-WebServicesConnectivity

In the above, some of the cmdlets seems like they are already present before, but which were improved or changed for better purposes in SP2. For eg, in import-mailbox cmdlet is not working as expected when we try for importing mails on particular date basis for large mailboxes.

6. The above mentioned are only the new features, SP2 contains all the bugs fix code which we all rolled out as a Roll ups.

Hope the above info is useful.

Thanks

Logan

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