Exchange top features
Increase user productivity and keep your organization safe, while maintaining the control you need.
Close-up of a page in the Exchange admin center, where you manage your email system.
Remain in control
Exchange lets you tailor your solution based on your unique needs and ensures that your communications are always available, while you remain in control. Move to the cloud overnight, deploy on-premises, or manage a hybrid deployment with mailboxes that are both online and on-premises. Manage powerful capabilities, including data loss prevention and site mailboxes, from the easy-to-use, web-based Exchange admin center. Role-based access helps you manage Exchange efficiently and delegate tasks. With Exchange archiving, large mailboxes, and retention policies, your users can keep important data in one place and you can take control of your storage and compliance demands.
Do more on any device
Exchange lets your users be more productive by helping them manage increasing volumes of communications across multiple devices and work together more effectively as teams. With an uncluttered inbox that focuses on the relevant and important information, your users can get more done, faster. Enhance collaboration with Site mailboxes that let users get up to speed quickly on teams they join and share information easily. Co-authoring, document storage, and versioning are provided by SharePoint, while messaging is handled by Exchange. Simplify communications by customizing Exchange by integrating web-based apps for Outlook and Outlook Web App. Single sign-on to multiple apps reduces complexity for users.
Close-up of a user’s inbox in Outlook Web App, powered by Exchange.
Close-up of a Policy Tip in an email, to help prevent sending sensitive info.
Protect your organization
Exchange helps protect business communication and sensitive information, simplifying internal and regulatory compliance. Built-in defenses against viruses, spam, and phishing attacks actively protect your communications. Data loss prevention features identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data through deep content analysis, and Policy Tips in Outlook inform users about policy violations before sensitive data is sent. Your compliance officers can run In-Place eDiscovery across Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync from the eDiscovery Center to identify, hold, and analyze your organization's data. The data always remains in place, so you never have to manage a separate store of data.
3. Cumulative Updates
Service Packs
vNext
H2 2015
Cumulative update
Cumulative update
Service pack
Cumulative update
Newversion
Newversion
4. There’s too much stuff in my inbox; I can’t keep up
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Important email get buried underneath other clutter
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People send documents as attachments, so we end up with versioning problems
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As email data grows, its hard to keep up with legal and regulatory requirements
We need better tools for keeping our company’s email safe, private, and secure
Too much of our company’s knowledge is locked up in people’s email
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6. Tame email overload with tools that help you focus on what’s important and work more efficiently
People view
Clutter view
Rich content
Search enhancements
App enhancements
OWA for devices
12. Shipped
Jun 2014
Target: Future CU
Shipped
Jul 2013
Shipped
2013 SP1
iPhone and iPad
Android phone
13. Combine the strengths of email with social technologies to make group- based work easier and make your organization more agile
Groups
Group email experience
Group calendar experience
Document collaboration
18. Protect your organization’s data and comply with legal requirements using tools that are integrated and easy to use
Compliance center
Data loss prevention
Office 365 Message Encryption
Exchange Online Protection
20. SharePoint and OneDrive search
Initial release
Mobile Policy Tips, Doc. fingerprinting
Shipped: Q1 2014
Shipped: 2013 SP1
Shipped: Q2 2013
Shipped: 2013
Shipped: Q3 2014
Next version
21. Not applicable
iOS & Android Apps
Initial Release
One Time Passcode
Shipped: Oct 2014
Shipped: Feb 2014
Target: Q4 2014
22. Remote PowerShell Access
Increased Domain Limit
Enhanced Reporting
Junk Mail Reporting for OWA
Match Subdomains
End User Access to Quarantine
Bulk Mail Enhancements
Extended Message Trace
Support for IPV6
User/Groups in EOP
DKIM Inbound
Configure End User Spam Notification
Policy by group , domain or user
Directory Based Edge Blocking
Support for IPv6
Enhanced Anti-Phishing
International Spam Filtering
Improved Admin UI including search capabilities
Custom Content and Malware Filter for specified user, group, or domains
Deferal alert
Self-signed certificate (TLS)
Bulk updating of word lists
Transport rule reporting improvements
Dictionary files for ETR/Policy
Transport rule search
Increased policies from 100 to 300
Advanced Threat Protection
Message Quarantine enhancements
Detailed Reporting & Message Tracking
Enhanced Bulk mail Protection
DMARC-Inbound & Outbound
DKIM Outbound
Strengthened coverage against malicious URLs
Expanding Geocentric affinity
Not applicable
24. Resources
Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014 session recordings
KeynoteIntroducingGroupsIntroducing the Personalized Inbox: "Clutter," People View, and SearchRefinersIntroducing Document Collaboration in Outlook WebAppBehind the curtain: How we run ExchangeOnline
Office 365 Trust Center