Exchange Server Standard Edition

"The cornerstone of the Microsoft Unified Communications solution"

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility with anywhere access to communications. Built from the ground up for Software + Services, Exchange 2010 delivers unparalleled experiences, whether you choose to deploy on-premises, hosted, or a mix of the two.

• Helps you reduce costs by addressing common infrastructure requirements such as backup, email archiving, mobile email access, and voicemail with no need for third-party tools
• Provides new self-service capabilities to help users perform common tasks without calling the help desk
• Adds new productivity features which help your users organize and prioritize the communications in their inboxes efficiently
• Makes it easy to encrypt, control, and moderate your company's communications
• Introduces a simplified approach to high availability and disaster recovery to help you achieve new levels of reliability and reduce the complexity of delivering business continuity
• Offers an enhanced universal inbox experience, which provides your users with access to all of their business communications from a single location
• Delivers new integrated archiving functionality to help simplify compliance and discovery
• Helps protect your communications through built-in defenses against junk email and support for an array of third-party security products

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Operating systems
• Windows 7
• Windows Vista with Service Pack 2
• Windows XP with Service Pack 3
• Windows XP Home Edition is supported, but it will not support federated identity
• Windows XP Media Center edition is supported, but it will not support federated identity
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard

System software
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (for Windows XP)
• Java client 1.4.2 (for Macintosh OS X)

Office clients
• Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 2007 Service Pack 2
• Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition
• Office 2011 for Mac and Outlook 2011 for Mac
• .NET Framework 2.0 or later

Client applications
Services Connector

Browser software—Microsoft Online Portal
• Internet Explorer 7 or later
• Mozilla Firefox 3.x
• Apple Safari 3.x

Browser requirements—Microsoft Outlook Web App
• Internet Explorer 7 or later
• Firefox 3 or later
• Safari 3 or later on Macintosh OS X 10.5
• Chrome 3 and later versions
• Outlook Web App also has a light version that supports a reduced set of features on almost any browser