Download Exchange 2013 | What’s new in Exchange 2013 | Features of Exchange 2013 | Microsoft Exchange 2013 Preview

Author: Zahir Hussain Shah, MVP Exchange Server

Let me introduce you to the Exchange Server 2013

Recently, Microsoft made Exchange Server 2013 and other Microsoft Office on-premises and cloud based product previews (beta evaluation edition) available for public, these version are beta and solely for testing purpose, they cannot be used in the production network until their final releases.

Whats new in Exchange 2013

There are thousands of new features added to Microsoft Exchange 2013, which makes it one of the most powerful messaging and collaboration solution on the planet. It leverage the benefits and solid foundation of Exchange 2010, by providing tons of great new enhancements made to the Exchange 2010 carried forward architecture. Few of the major new features of the Exchange 2013 can be summarized as follows:

Reduced costs by optimizing for next generation of hardware

Significantly reduced operational overhead for high availability

Decrease the amount of time spent managing your system while maintaining control

Automatically protect Exchange availability from surges in traffic

Automatically protect your email from malware

Protect your sensitive data and inform users of internal compliance policies with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities

Allow compliance officers to run In-Place eDiscovery across Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync from a single interface

Allow users to naturally work together while compliance is applied behind the scenes

Modern public folders provide a great way of managing and storing shared conversations and discussions

Give your users an intuitive, gorgeous, touch-optimized experience on all screens

Offline support in OWA allows your users to be productive when offline or on intermittently connected networks

Bring all of your contacts together and automatically keep them up-to-date

Modern people search experience lets you quickly find the right person

Updated canvas makes calendar more useful for everyone

Customize Outlook and OWA easily by integrating apps from the Office marketplace

For a detailed overview about all the above listed new enhancements and features, please read this.

You can also download the Exchange 2013 preview from here.

Hope you will enjoy reading this thread, and will also find Exchange 2013 interesting.

Cheers!