Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Exchange 2007

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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.

Forefront Security for Exchange Server beta delivers the following:

· 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.

Download: Exchange Beta 2

Download: Forefront Security for Exchange server beta

View: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

#1 blackice912 on 24 Jul 2006 - 10:22

Exchange Server 2007 download isn't working

#2 craybox on 24 Jul 2006 - 10:28

this is a sign up for notification when it is available from what i read, maybe that should be noted in the title

#3 FluidDruid2005 on 24 Jul 2006 - 13:32

It's now live - I'm downloading it now.

#4 dividebytwo on 24 Jul 2006 - 14:47

Downloaded, (x64 onto Windows Server 2003 SP1) - Installed MMC3.0 & Powershell, but installer says Monad is not installed - refuses to see PowerShell

(4 replies) #5 Imaginos on 24 Jul 2006 - 14:54

Pulling the x86 build. Thought there wasn't supposed to be one for that platform though.

#5.1 EcPercy on 24 Jul 2006 - 15:50

Quote - Imaginos said @ #5

From what I read the x86 version would be available for testing, but you would have to install the x64 version for production use.

Only time will tell if they are actually planning on forcing a 64 bit hardware/os upgrade to run the new exchange version. My bet is that they will have both available this time around. It would not be smart to try and force everyone to do a hardware refresh. If so, most companies will stick with Exchange 2000 or 2003.

#5.2 hitchcock4 on 24 Jul 2006 - 19:05

I disagree. Our Exchange server is 4 years old. By the time we upgrade it will be 4.5 or 5 years old. In my opinion we MUST buy new hardware anyway because I will not trust a server that is more than 5 years old (in a production environment).
So we will have a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 (64-bit capable) for Exchange 2007 in January 2007.

#5.3 Amodin on 24 Jul 2006 - 19:19

Yes but hitchcock, there are also a lot of companies out there that won't have hardware that old, but won't be able to upgrade either because of no 64-bit hardware. A lot of consumers and companies have not taken the plunge to 64-bit yet, as there are hardly any companies supporting drivers for their hardware to work with 64-bit.

Sad to see them just supporting 64-bit only by the time Exchange 2007 is released, but if we can get some software support for 64-but by that time, I have no problems supporting IT to implement it in my company.

#5.4 hosebeast on 24 Jul 2006 - 22:09

Microsoft says that the X86 build will only be available during beta for "preview" testing, but I bet they will ship an X86 build as part of the next Small Business Server. SBS is intended for tiny organizations who may only have a single server to run everything they need, including obscure niche "Line Of Business" apps which may never get properly migrated to X64.

Also, convincing most of the western world to switch to X64 won't be too difficult, but I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is making sure the code builds correctly for X86 just in case they need to choose between selling Exchange 2007 in developing countries or not selling anything at all.

#6 BigBoy on 24 Jul 2006 - 20:28

Pretty cool - Exchange Team put up a Step by Step walkthrough for Beta 2 Setup:

Beta 2 setup instructions at msexchangeteam blog

#7 edjackiel on 25 Jul 2006 - 20:18

After selection Canada (English), signing in, I get a page not found page . I've tried in IE and Firefox already.

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