Microsoft releases Exchange Server 2010
Microsoft
today announced that Exchange Server 2010 is available
worldwide and that Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange
Server had also been released.
Microsoft also highlighted that more than 45,000 of the
company's partners have already been trained on Windows
Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010.
The software giant made a point to underline that Exchange
2010 is part of the next Microsoft generation of solutions,
which includes Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2,
designed for increased business productivity and cost
savings.
The company is calling these products
The New Efficiency,
and the website thus named is where you'll find trial
versions of Exchange Server 2010 and Forefront Protection
2010 for Exchange.
For your convenience though, here's a list of everything
related to today's releases posted on the Microsoft Download
Center:
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (339.6MB)
- Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (177.3MB for offline setup; 7.4MB for online setup)
- Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 Privacy Statement (19KB)
- Exchange Server 2010 UM Language Packs (6.0MB to 92.2MB depending on the language)
- Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (1.3MB)
- Exchange Server 2010 Release Notes (30KB)
- Microsoft Exchange Server Inter-Organization Replication (333KB)
Since Exchange 2007 was 64-bit, Exchange 2010 is as well.
In April 2009, Microsoft disclosed all of Exchange Server 2010's features and released a public beta, which was tested as a service by more than 10 million people worldwide in the broadest server beta in Microsoft history.
The software giant also then claimed that the 2010 version was built from the ground up to work on-premises and as an online service. The company released even more details when it offered up a Release Candidate in August 2009.
Exchange 2010 hit the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone in October 2009, but only became available for download today.
Source: Arstechnica