Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your customers by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.

Overview

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.

• Flexible and reliable - Exchange Server 2010 SP2 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your company's unique needs and a simplified way to keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
• Anywhere access - Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all their communications - e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more - from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.
• Protection and compliance - Exchange Server 2010 SP2 delivers integrated information loss prevention, and compliance tools aimed at helping you simplify the process of protecting your company's communications and meeting regulatory requirements.

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What's New in Exchange 2010 SP2

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2011-12-02

This topic provides you with an overview of important new features and functionality in Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, which can be useful when you’re planning, deploying, and administering your organization. The following sections include information about changes to features and functionality that has occurred since Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Exchange 2010:

• Hybrid Configuration Wizard
• Address Book Policies
• Cross-Site Silent Redirection for Outlook Web App
• Mini Version of Outlook Web App
• Mailbox Replication Service
• Mailbox Auto-Mapping
• Multi-Valued Custom Attributes
• Litigation Hold

In addition to the changes described in this topic, Exchange 2010 SP2 also includes fixes that address issues identified since the release of Exchange 2010 SP1. For a complete list of issues fixed in Exchange 2010 SP2, see: Issues That Are Fixed in Exchange 2010 SP2.

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Windows PowerShell is a fully extensible environment. Anyone can write commands for Windows PowerShell. You can use commands that others write and share the commands that you write with others.

Commands are shared by using modules and snap-ins. Windows PowerShell modules and snap-ins are packages that contain Windows PowerShell commands and other items. All cmdlets and providers in Windows PowerShell are delivered in snap-ins or modules, and modules can also contain functions, aliases, variables, and drives.

Some snap-ins and modules are added automatically to every Windows PowerShell session. If you receive a snap-in or module, you can install it and add the commands to your Windows PowerShell sessions. To share the commands that you write, you can create a Windows PowerShell module or snap-in.

About Modules

A module is a package of commands and other items that you can use in Windows PowerShell. After you run the setup program or save the module to disk, you can import the module into your Windows PowerShell session and use the commands and items. You can also use modules to organize the cmdlets, providers, functions, aliases, and other commands that you create, and share them with others.

About Snap-ins

A Windows PowerShell snap-in (PSSnapin) is a dynamic link library (.dll) that implements cmdlets and providers. When you receive a snap-in, you need to install it, and then you can add the cmdlets and providers in the snap-in to your Windows PowerShell session.

For more information visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd745031(v=vs.85).aspx

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Thank you everyone for attending today’s session Top 5 Free Desktop Deployment and Planning Tools for Every IT Professional. I hope it was a great experience to everyone. Here are the resources from my session.

SESSION RESOURCES - TechNet Library

Microsoft Solution Accelerators
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/bb545941

Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) Version 5.6
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722055(WS.10).aspx

Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349343(WS.10).aspx

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx

Product Activation Using Volume Activation Management Tool 2.0
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686878.aspx

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee376932.aspx

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The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5753

The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) Supplement for Windows® 7 SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5188

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7826

Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7352

Microsoft Application Verifier
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c4a25ab9-649d-4a1b-b4a7-c9d8b095df18&DisplayLang=en 

Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11936

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&=tm&id=25175

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=217606

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Windows setup log files are in different locations on the hard disk. These locations depend on the setup phase. This article describes where to locate these log files and which log files are most useful for troubleshooting each setup phase of Windows 7, of Windows Server 2008 R2, and of Windows Vista.

Downlevel phase

Windows Preinstallation Environment phase

Note You may also see a log file in the X:\WINDOWS directory. The Setupact.log file in this directory contains information about the progress of the initial options that are selected on the Windows installation screen. The Windows installation screen appears when you start the computer by using the Windows installation media. After you click Install now from the Windows installation screen, the Setup.exe file starts, and this log file is no longer used.

Online configuration phase

Windows Welcome phase

• It provides the options to create user accounts.
• It provides the option to specify a name for the computer.
• The Windows System Assessment Tool (Winsat.exe) finishes performance testing to determine the Windows Experience Index rating.

Rollback phase

Complete support article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927521