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2003 White Paper
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An accurate setup of the ADC is crucial to a successful upgrade from Exchange 5.5. ADC
provides a collection of wizards and tools that help set up connection agreements by scanning the
current Active Directory and Exchange 5.5 Directory and organization, and then automatically
creating the recommended connection agreements. This tool is a tremendous asset to the
Exchange 5.5 administrator undertaking an upgrade to Exchange 2003.
Upgrade Documentation
The documentation provided with the deployment tools package has been improved as well.
Earlier editions of Exchange (including Exchange 2000) provided very few upgrade tools, and the
documentation for the tools that did exist sometimes lacked detail. Microsoft has committed to
making upgrades from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 as simple and robust as possible—
another reason to consider upgrading directly to Exchange 2003 rather than Exchange 2000.
Feature Improvements in Exchange 2003
The following table summarizes the top feature enhancements in Exchange Server 2003.
New and Improved Features in Exchange Server 2003
Option Description
Outlook Web
Access (OWA)
The latest OWA interface looks more like the new Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
client and so provides users with a consistent experience whether in the office or
on the road. Security and performance are improved as well, and spell checking,
task scheduling, and anti-spam features have been added.
Outlook 2003 Outlook 2003 is optimized for use with Exchange 2003. A new interface
streamlines access to personal folders and displays currently open e-mail
messages. Using Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 in combination enhances the
performance of the Outlook client over low bandwidth and unreliable WAN links so
that remote Outlook users have a similar experience to users on a LAN. This
benefit enables remote users in small offices to use a remote Exchange server
rather than requiring a local Exchange server for performance reasons.
Mobile Access and
Synchronization
Exchange 2003 offers support and communications for an expanded set of mobile
devices. Support for iMode, cHTML, and WAP 2.0 micro-browsers enable users to
access their e-mail using the latest handheld technology, such as personal display
appliances (PDAs) and cell phones. Support is also provided for Short Message
Service (SMS) that can alert always-on mobile devices when a new message
arrives in the inbox. User can then synchronize the messages, if necessary.
Server
consolidation
Exchange 2003 builds on the server consolidation features of Exchange 2000 and
improves the use of server and storage resources by supporting the following:
§ Windows Server 2003 services that support Volume Shadow Copy service.
Volume Shadow Copy service enables online backup of Exchange Storage
Groups, so there's no need to take systems offline.
§ Instantaneous backup and restore, which removes one of the practical limits
to the number of users supported on a single server—the time it takes to back
up the mail storage.
§ Faster and more reliable synchronization. The client-to-server communication
protocol has been rewritten and optimized. These efficiency gains help to
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