Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Released
Posted by Hawkeye on 29 November 2007 - 22:08 · 13 comments & 9152 views
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system. Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is a mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to be more productive and access their information anywhere and anytime while providing a messaging system that enables rich, efficient access to e-mail, calendar items, voice mail, and contacts. For the administrator, Exchange Server 2007 SP1 provides advanced protection options against e-mail security threats, such as spam and viruses, as well as the tools to help manage internal compliance and high availability needs.

In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, several new features and improvements will extend the Anywhere Access capabilities of Exchange Server 2007 to help make employees more productive on whatever device they’re using, provide additional Operational Efficiency tools for administrators seeking a streamlined management and deployment experience, and enable advanced Built-in Protection for more robust high availability and compliance scenarios.
Improvements in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 include:

Anywhere Access
Integrated Exchange Unified Messaging functionality with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
Outlook Web Access additions, including public folder access, S/MIME support, personal distribution lists, and mailbox rules editor.
• Webready document viewer supports Microsoft Office 2007 documents in addition to Microsoft Office 2003 documents.
• Extended language support in Outlook Web Access with Arabic and Korean spell checking.
Operational Efficiency
• Support for Windows Server 2008 deployments, including benefits in flexible clustering, native virtualization, advanced networking, and simplified management.
• Additional tools in the Exchange Management Console, including public folder management and configuration options for clustering and POP/IMAP access.
• Improvements to the Exchange Management Shell syntax and import-export PST in the move-mailbox command.
• Wider variety of web services for application development, including public folder access, delegate management, and folder level permissions.

Built-in Protection
• Addition of Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) for site resilient high availability deployments.
• Extended Exchange ActiveSync policies for mobile policy enforcement.
• Information rights management pre-licensing by the Hub Transport role.
• Secure Real Time Protocol (SRTP) support in the Unified Messaging role.
• Support for IPv6 when using Windows Server 2008.

Download: Download Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (Registration Required) | 32-bit: 840.6 MB | 64-bit: 854.7 MB
Download: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging Language Packs
View: Release Notes for Exchange Server 2007 SP1
View: Neowin Forum Discussion (courtesy of colinbo)


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(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by furyc0de on 29 Nov 2007 - 22:23
There's a 32-bit service pack? My understanding, was Exchange Server 2007 was 64-bit only. Does this mean Microsoft is changing their stance on this?
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by Crimson Tide on 29 Nov 2007 - 22:25
No they are not changing the stance. This is for the developers edition which is x32 and for the x32 admin tools to be installed on workstations.
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by Hawkeye on 29 Nov 2007 - 22:32
Crimson Tide pretty much nailed it. In order to evaluate whether or not an organization should consider Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft makes a 32-bit version of it available to try it out, but it is not supported in a production environment. Additionally, many network administrators like to install tools on their workstation in order to manage servers on the network; their workstations are most likely running Windows XP, which is a 32-bit operating system, and therefore requires that a 32-bit installation of Exchange Server be installed on the workstation.
Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by +DrCheese on 29 Nov 2007 - 22:58
yeah, I backup my exchange 2007 from a 32bit server with an LTO-1 Drive, I need the admin tools on that for it to backup properly.
and yea, people will often test software on lower spec hardware, some of which probably won't be 64bit.

It will be a while before I install this on our production stuff, need to make sure 100% that the backup software will be affected(its unlikly it will be tho) plus we tend to wait a while after release incase any major issues are discovered with it.
I'm looking forward to using the improved GUI tools tho, I hate using the stupid console for even simple things that previously had GUI options in 2003
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by colinbo on 29 Nov 2007 - 22:59
I posted this on Back Page News forum earlier.. no credit, eh! wtf?

For those running Forefront Security for Exchange.. SP1 is due to release to web on Monday. You will need that to use Forefront Security w/ Exchange 2007 SP1.
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by Sagittarius on 29 Nov 2007 - 23:12
Heh, gotcha covered.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by itianuk on 30 Nov 2007 - 00:16
I've installed this SP and all working fine.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by RevitXman on 30 Nov 2007 - 05:00
Still no pop3 connector?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by REM2000 on 30 Nov 2007 - 09:02
As long as the promised export to PST (Brick level) backup is implemented, then im happy. Aswell as the numerous bugs ive encountered. Saying that, exchange 2007 has been a much needed near rewrite, im glad Microsoft went 64bit only and the powershell is superb. Fingers crossed for a continuing maturing product.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by daPhoenix on 30 Nov 2007 - 09:11
And the admin tools are as slow and ugly as ever - oh good lord please return to the old mmc.

Well, this is one release we'll skip organization wide completely while waiting for an Exchange replacement.
Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by EcPercy on 30 Nov 2007 - 14:20
Quote - (daPhoenix said @ #1)
And the admin tools are as slow and ugly as ever - oh good lord please return to the old mmc.

Well, this is one release we'll skip organization wide completely while waiting for an Exchange replacement.


The new admin tools are only slow on a crappy server. The new admin tools work great on my server. I do admit that there are some things that are missing that make you go to the exchange management shell, but EMS is pretty nice too.

I am running the whole setup. Exchange 2007 w/UM so our users can have their voicemail in their e-mail. We are using ActiveSync and Outlook Anywhere. Everything is working nicely.

Good luck on waiting for an Exchange replacement. I doubt that there are any products out there that can compete.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by ]SK[ on 30 Nov 2007 - 16:47
Wow 800MB+ of updates. Impressive.

Hasn't Exchange 2007 only been out for a few months? We have Exchange 2007 with our Action Pack, shame we run 32Bit servers.
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by Hawkeye on 02 Dec 2007 - 09:36
Exchange Server 2007 was released at the same time as the business release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, in November 2006.
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