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WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOUR EMAIL
People running Exchange as their email server typically use Outlook as their client. Among many advanced features, this lets them:

• Securely access email remotely via the web or a mobile device like a BlackBerry or iPhone
• View colleagues’ up-to-date calendars and schedule meetings
• Assign and manage company tasks on central ‘to do’ lists
• Manage contact information of employees and customers and access it anytime

OUTLOOK WEB ACCESS
Outlook Web Access 2010 enhancements include:

• Conversation View: Groups messages from a single conversation together which can then be managed, moved and deleted.
• Single Page of Messages: All messages are displayed on one page regardless of the size of the folder.
• Nickname Cache: Helps users address email more quickly by providing a suggested name list as a new address is typed.
• Filters: Now easier to apply from a convenient dropdown menu with common options.
• Search: More powerful with advanced queries.
• View Shared Calendar and Contacts: Providing the ability to check schedules and availability of users.
• Presence: Colorful indicators to let the user know if their contact is available to chat.
• Instant Messaging (IM): Contains OCS instant messaging functionality within the client.
• SMS Sync: Exchange ActiveSync® now provides the ability to send and receive SMS text messages from OWA on devices with Windows 6.1 or later.

OWA 2010 is now available through multiple browsers, allowing you to easily deploy a feature-rich Outlook experience in Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3+ and Safari 3+ browsers.

EXCHANGE VS POP/IMAP
Exchange is a quantum leap from basic POP or IMAP email, which is most suited for home and personal use, and makes your team much more productive through constant access to email, shared calendars and contacts.

To help you understand the productivity-boosting options that hosted Exchange 2010 offers, here is a comparison of Outlook/Exchange 2010 versus basic email options:

Feature	Exchange 2010	POP/ IMAP
Group scheduling
Send out meeting requests, then track and update them
Shared calendars and side-by-side calendar views
Access to personal and shared address books from remote locations
Single sign-on for email and network access
Connections over the Internet are secure		Some solutions
Server-side spam filtering		Some solutions
Ability to categorize email and flag it for follow up		Partial
Ability to add voting buttons to a messages
Automatic out-of-office reply
Ability to recall sent messages
Support for multiple-computer access		Partial
Access to email via Web browsers and mobile browsers, Outlook Mobile in Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs, Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphones		Non-Microsoft products are typically required
Outlook Cached Exchange Mode for working with intermittent Web connection (eg dial-up)		Some solutions offer caching
Offline email, calendar, contacts, and public folder support		Partial
Access to public folders for sharing documents and information		Individual email folder access in IMAP
Basic email support for SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4
Easy management of Outlook and Exchange Server profiles across multiple machines to lower support costs