The MS Exchange team has released Exchange 2010 SP2!  Yay!

Some of the new features in Exchange 2010 SP2 that I’m looking forward to are:

• GAL Segmentation!  GAL Segmentation will allow an exchange admin to have multiple GAL that are filtered to users based on a new feature called Address Book Policy (ABP). The ABP allows an administrator to assign to a user which address books, GALs, rooms, and users they can see. I say users because if a person looks at an distribution list that contains users from different GALs and the user doesn’t have permission to see that GAL the ABP will filter out those users.  (more info on GAL Segmentation from The Exchange Team: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/01/27/3411882.aspx )
• Silent Redirection!  As it stands now when a user hits OWA and logs in to their mailbox, if that user resides in another Internet facing AD Site they will be presented with a link to click to get to their OWA URL. Once they click that link the user will need to enter their username and password again. With Silent Redirection in Exchange 2010 SP2 this will no linger be the case! Users will now automatically be logged in to the redirected site. This gives the users a single sign on experience!
• Hybrid Configuration Wizard, which will allow organizations to deploy a hybrid deployment where some mailboxes will be on-premises while others can be on Microsoft Office 365.

For some other features of Exchange 2010 SP2 check out my old Blog Article, Exchange 2010 SP2

Looking to download Exchange 2010 SP2?  You can find it here:  http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28190

For a list of the features in Exchange 2010 SP2 you can go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529924.aspx

Enjoy!

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