Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5 Benefits for End Users
Version 4.5 of Hosted Messaging and Collaboration, which includes Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, and Office Communications Server 2007, makes it easy for service providers to offer SMBs the tools and guidelines that they need to significantly improve how they communicate and collaborate. With it, service providers and their SMB customers can:
- Provide access anywhere: With Exchange Server 2007 SP1, mobile workers can benefit from an unprecedented level of Outlook functionality:
- Rich Outlook experience on mobile devices
- Significantly improved e-mail triaging: HTML e-mail, flags
- Access to Windows SharePoint Services and Universal Naming Convention (UNC) documents linked in e-mail messages
- Ability to recover deleted items
- Ability to search the entire mailbox on the server from mobile devices
- Remote management of out-of-office status and message
- New calendar views and easier access to public folders
- Improved interface customization for seamless integration with custom applications
- Improved policy support
- Encryption of device data
- Ability to remotely wipe information from a device
- Enforce policies for PIN expiration, complexity, and re-use rules
- Support for reading and composing signed and encrypted e-mail messages
- Privacy for free/busy information
- Simplified configuration
- Automatic device configuration
- Faster, more consistent provisioning experience for MAPI-enabled organizations
- Reduce risk and keep users productive: The following compliance features help companies better manage e-mail environments while remaining transparent to end users:
- Deletion of e-mail messages of users not on retention
- Ability to permit exceptions for business-critical e-mail
- Ability to archive the e-mail of users on retention
- Enforcement of privacy and other restrictions
- Transparent process management - users don’t need to worry about making additional efforts to manage their mailboxes:
- Automatic “roaming” of e-mail from desktop to device
- Automatic e-mail backups
- Improve team collaboration: The following features keep people working efficiently together:
- Information sharing: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides browser-based tools for collaboration—including team workspaces, blogs, and wikis—that make it possible for people to share information, route documents for review, and coordinate project tasks.
- Multimodal collaboration: Office Communications Server 2007 offers PC-based audio, video, and Web conferencing. Because users can switch between different modes of communication, they can adapt their collaboration methods to suit their needs at that moment.
- IM and presence functionality: Office Communications Server 2007 makes it easier to communicate and collaborate. Users can escalate communications to group IM sessions, take advantage of richer presence options, and group people into contact lists and distribution groups for faster communication.
- Offer customers a customized application platform: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 provides a set of prebuilt, customizable application templates that teams can use to manage day-to-day business operations, such as recruiting and hiring, event and meeting planning, customer service and support, team calendars, timecards, and more?
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