New and Changed Features

• New Deployment Functionality
• Client Access Server Role Improvements
  • Federation Certificates
  • Exchange ActiveSync
  • SMS Sync
  • Server-Side Information Rights Management Support
  • Outlook Web App Improvements
  • Reset Virtual Directory
  • Client Throttling Policies
• Improvements in Transport Functionality
• Permissions Functionality
• Exchange Store and Mailbox Database Functionality
• Mailbox and Recipients Functionality
  • Group Naming Policies
  • Importing\exporting mailbox data now uses the Exchange Mailbox Replication service
  • Hierarchical address book support
  • End user direct to Internet Calendar Publishing
  • Calendar Repair Assistant (CRA) to fix bad\out of sync calendar items
• High Availability and Site Resilience Functionality
  • Big one: Continuous Replication – Block Mode
  • Datacenter Activation Coordination Mode Support now supports two node DAGs
  • New and improved managment and monitoring\reporting scripts
• Messaging Policy and Compliance Functionality
  • Primary & archive mailbox can be in different databases now
  • Direct inport & export PST data to primary or archive mailbox, without Outlook
  • Delegate access to archive mailboxes
  • Improved tagging support
  • Discovery improvements: Multi-Mailbox Search preview, data de-duplication, and annotations
• Unified Messaging Server Role Improvements
  • UM managment in ECP
  • UM reporting, cross forest mailbox migrations, and many others
• Audit Logging Improvements
• Support for Coexistence with Exchange Online
• Support for Multi-Tenancy