Unified Messaging

With Exchange Server Unified Messaging, you can access your e-mail, voicemail, and fax messages in whatever way is most convenient for you to work effectively.

Instead of having to access messages using three systems—mail, voicemail, and fax—you can access all these data types from a single unified inbox. You can also access to your e-mail using phone. With Office Outlook Voice Access, you can call in and hear not only your voicemail, but also your e-mail messages read back to them. You can even manipulate your calendars, for example by canceling meetings or informing meeting attendees that you will be late.

Simplified IT Infrastructure and Reduced Costs
Microsoft Exchange Server helps promote data protection and improve operational management and administration. Exchange Server offers highly reliable, security-enhanced e-mail that helps organizations comply with regulatory requirements, while enabling users to be more productive with integrated access to e-mail, voice mail, calendaring, and contacts.

Consolidation
Integrated unified messaging allows site and server consolidation, reducing the total number of servers required to provide voice mail and fax services. Consolidation can dramatically lower maintenance and upkeep costs, particularly for organizations with remote or branch offices. Unified messaging consolidates existing voice mail and auto attendant systems into a single, expandable infrastructure. Services are provided from the core of the network topology, allowing fewer servers to support remote locations.

Centralized Data Management
Centralized storage of voice mail, faxes, and e-mail allows for robust backups, while fault-tolerant configurations and fast re-deployment mean a lower cost of service interruption.

Anti-virus, Anti-spam Protection
Security attacks often cause business disruptions and increased IT cost and complexity. Exchange Server & Office Communications Server provide built-in defenses against virus, spam, phishing through additional integrated filtering and advanced multi-engine scanning capabilities for your messaging. New encryption features also help protect the confidentiality of messages in transit.

Compliance
New compliance capabilities help simplify organizational, legal, and regulatory compliance requirements by enabling administrators to easily set policies for filtering, examining, and archiving for many forms of communications. Legal discovery is also made easy with powerful cross-box search capability. You can implement compliance needs without sacrificing business processes or end-user productivity.

Business Continuity
Messaging downtime can cripple a business, resulting in slower customer response time and decreased collaboration. New data replication capabilities (local, clustered, and Standby Continuous Replication) keep the system highly available while limiting the need for and frequency of tape backup.

Mobile & Web-based Messaging
Exchange Server & Office Communications Server enables end-users to be productive no matter where they are. They can access to corporate network without requiring a secure tunnel (VPN connection). Exchange ActiveSync® technology delivers a fast and seamless e-mail experience to mobile devices while offering enhanced device and security policy control. Outlook Web Access provides a rich Outlook like experience through web browser with powerful search and the ability to view different types of attachments.

Larger Mailboxes and Expanded Archiving Support
Exchange provides robust support for larger mailboxes, reducing the need for archiving to control mailbox sizes. Additionally, Exchange has extensive journaling support to be used it with various archiving applications or services. Coupling SharePoint Server’s Records Center capability with Exchange-managed folders allows the archiving of messages and journal reports.

Anywhere Access
Microsoft's Unified Communications platform provides a consistent, integrated environment that lets you access the data you need from a variety of devices and locations. This environment helps you turn downtime into uptime by enabling you to work where and when it is convenient with access to the same powerful collaboration tools you use in the office Mobile e-mail is easier with Outlook Web Access for VPN-less e-mail access and Outlook Mobile with Exchange ActiveSync for push e-mail in real time.