Exchange Server 2003 SP2 is coming!
Projected to be released in November 2005, this Service Pack is guaranteed to enhance your messaging environment!

The 3 major improvements of SP2

1. E-mail mobility
  • New seamless Direct Push Technology e-mail experience. No longer is there a reliance on short 
    message service (SMS) to notify and ensure the device automatically retrieves new e-mail from your
    Exchange server. SP2 will use an HTTP connection, maintained by the device, to push new e-mail,
    calendar, contact, and task notifications to the device. This new model even works over wireless 
    fidelity (Wi-Fi) networks.

  • Additional data compression translating to a faster experience when sending and receiving 
    messages and reduced synch times.

  • Additional Outlook properties, including support for Task synchronization and pictures in Contacts. 
    In addition, you can now look up people by using the Global Address List (GAL) over the air.

  • Greater control and security, including:
     - Policy setting. Force a password to unlock a device. 
     - Local wipe. Reset the password after x number of incorrect logon attempts. 
     - Remote wipe. Reset remote devices over the Web. Such policies help to ensure corporate data 
       or applications are not compromised when devices are lost or get into the wrong hands.

Most mobile e-mail improvements require that your device run the Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging and Security Feature Pack, which will be available at or near the time that SP2 is released. Some features such as support for Tasks and support for pictures in Contacts will not require the feature pack.

Licensees of the Exchange ActiveSync protocol (such as palmOne, Motorola, Nokia, Symbian) can take advantage of these improvements through updates to their messaging applications or devices. The roadmap for those devices is owned and managed by the licensee.

2. Enhanced anti-spam technology
  • Updated and integrated Exchange Intelligent Message Filter. Improvements to this filter ensure a
    continued focus on identifying spam and reducing false positives. These updates include new
    capabilities in the fight against spam including blocking phishing schemes. Phishing schemes
    attempt through deception to fraudulently solicit sensitive personal information by masquerading as 
    legitimate Web sites.

   • New support for Sender ID e-mail authentication protocol. This new feature further helps prevent
     unwanted mailbox phishing and spoofing schemes by verifying the IP address of the e-mail sender
     against the purported owner of the sending domain. Spoofing attacks occur when one person or
     program is able to masquerade successfully as another to gain access to personal e-mail messages.
     The result of the Sender ID check is used as input to the Exchange Intelligent Message Filter. The
     sender must have registered a list of the valid IP addresses in DNS for accuracy.

3. Advanced mailbox features 
  • Increase in mailbox storage size limits to 75 gigabyte (GB) for Exchange Server 2003 Standard
    Edition in response to customer feedback and evolving mailbox storage needs. 

  • New offline address book format offers significantly improved performance. 

  • Cache mode enforcement with added flexibility. You now can force clients into cached mode to help 
     improve performance and increase the number of active users per server. This is especially beneficial 
     to organizations seeking to further site and server consolidation.

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