There’s a few links around the net listing some of the features coming in Exchange Online with 2010 but they are few and far betwee, so I thought it would be good to summarise them here.
The key components are:
- Voicemail with Unified Messaging
- Integrated archiving
- Retention policies and legal hold
- Transport rules
- Multi-mailbox search
- Conversation View
- MailTips
- Enhanced web-based administration
- Role-based access control
- Remote PowerShell
- Free/busy between cloud & on-premise
- Cross-premises management
- Native migration tools
Let’s have a look at these in a bit more detail.
Client Access
- IMAP
- Customise ActiveSync security policies
- Full OWA support in Firefox & Safari
- IM and presence in OWA
- OWA side-by-side calendar view
- Mobile free/busy lookup
- Mobile reply status
- Mobile SMS sync
- Over-the-air update for Outlook mobile
Email & Calendaring
- Conversation view
- Ingore/move conversation
- MailTips
- Mailk aggregation
- Shared nickname cache across OWA & mobile
- Message tracking (user self-service)
- Free/busy interoperability with on-premise
- Free/busy & calendar sharing with other organisations (ie. Exchange federation)
- Publish calendar for anonymous access
Contacts & Directory
- Dynamic distribution groups
- Restricted distribution groups
- Moderated distribution groups
- Share personal contacts
- Contact information update (user self-service)
Unified Messaging & Fax
- Hosted voicemail (integrationon with PABX)
- Outlook Voice Access
- ‘Play on phone’ button
- Missed call notifications
- Caller ID
- Company auto-attendant
- Self-service PIN reset
- Message waiting indicator
- Voicemail preview
- Call answering rules
- Protected voicemail
Security
- Sign in using AD credentials
- Route outbound mail via on-premise for filtering
- Multi-factor authentication (smartcard, soft certificate)
- Integration with on-premise RMS (for search, pre-licensing)
- RMS transport rules
- Journal decryption of RMS messages
- Outlook Protection Rules
Administration
- Remote PowerShell
- Role Based Access Controls
- Exchange Management Console
- Enhanced migration tools
- No OST re-synchronisation after migration
- Offboarding tools
- Support for organisations greater than 30,000 users
Compliance & Archiving
- Exchange Personal Archive
- E-Discovery (Multi-mailbox search)
- Message Retention (Archive & Delete policies)
- Message Retention (Legal Hold poliy)
- Compliance auditing
- Transport rules
- Custom disclaimers