The Exchange team discussed the service pack which will go into public beta (via TechNet) in April. They are aiming to coincide the RTM with that of Window Server "Lonhorn" in Q2 2007. This is what they had to say:
Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)
For such a great feature, we obviously needed a new name!
With Exchange 2007, we introduced Clustered Continuous Replication (CCR) for replication of data between 2 servers within a cluster within the same datacenter. With SCR, data replicates to a non-clustered server in a remote datacenter. If the primary datacenter becomes unavailable, the standby replica in the second datacenter is readily available to be activated.
Mobility
We’ll have new policies for:
- Enforcing encryption of main memory contents on device
- Enforcing which applications are allowed/blocked from running on the device
- Enforcing networking capabilities: disable wifi, Bluetooth, infrared, external storage
- Enforcing communication capabilities: disable SMS, MMS, POP/IMAP, disable camera
OWA
SP1 will fill in the feature holes that we just didn’t have time to complete by RTM:
- Personal distribution lists
- S/MIME
- Rules
- Monthly calendar view
- Deleted items recovery
OWA 2007 SP1 spell checking will add support for:
- Arabic
- Korean
OWA 2007 SP1 will add support for viewing Office 2007 file formats as HTML.
Exchange Management Console
SP1 will fill in the GUI holes that we just didn’t have time to complete by RTM, including:
- Public folder configuration
- POP and IMAP configuration
- SendAs permission configuration
- Delegation wizard scenarios
Web Services
New web service coverage will include:
- Public folder access
- Delegate management
- Folder permission management
IPv6
On Longhorn Server, we will support Exchange 2007 on native IPv6 networks.
Move Mailbox
This vital tool administrator tool has been beefed up to include import and export to a .pst