What Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Brings to Users and IT Administrators

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=6575' target='_blank'>http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=6575</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Charlie Chung is a technical Lead Project Manager in the Exchange Product Team. He was in Auckland attending Microsoft New Zealand's Tech Ed event and we took the opportunity to catch up with him in all things related to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and what features and benefits it brings to IT administrators, mobile users and consumers in general."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Jerry-Exchange2k7.bmp" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />Some changes are in the works for Exchange Server and the future versions of Windows Mobile. Although the references are sketchy, there are some tidbits in this article about what might be coming.

[Jason Dunn]

Some of this looks interesting, but I'm missing killer features such as being able to sync IE bookmarks/mobile bookmarks with multiple machines and devices. Or file sync amongst devices.

[Jerry Raia]

Yeah as far as this has come, a lot of basic little things are still missing. :?

[Mike Temporale]

The streaming your mail sounds pretty interesting. I wonder how much bandwidth that would save? Given that everyone doesn't read all their mail while mobile. It could be pretty significant.

[ctmagnus]

Streaming mail? Push and autd aren't fast enough?

Besides, the term streaming makes me think of Real Audio. :pukeface:

[Mike Temporale]

Streaming mail? Push and autd aren't fast enough?

Besides, the term streaming makes me think of Real Audio. :pukeface:

I hope it's nothing like real audio. That would suck.

By streaming, I'm guessing that they will stream the body of the message. So, the header would be pushed out using direct push. That's, what, maybe 10k? Then when you go to read the email, the server would stream the rest to you. Given that there is some junk mail, some boring company emails, and there's always the annoying emails from co-workers that you don't want to waste your time on - especially when you're mobile, then this could be a huge savings in bandwidth. Those emails would only have the header sent to the phone. While the emails from your wife would be streamed down to the phone as soon as you go to read it. Again, it's only a guess, but I can't think of any other way to stream email. This seems like a logical approach and a significant savings in terms of bandwidth.

[ctmagnus]

Ah, that makes sense now. I've always found the fact that I have to set a fixed limit for how much of each message to grab to avoid going overboard with data costs/storage (more so with WM5 than previously), then mark the ones I want to read in their entirety for download and then do the actual download, to be annoying.