Need an answer to a quick question when composing an e-mail? Outlook Web App allows you to send an IM from within the e-mail client. Watch the video to see it in action.

Get all of the essentials on your phone: e-mail, calendaring, text messages, and instant messaging. Stay in touch anytime, anywhere.

See your contact's current status, location, availability, and contact details. Watch the video to see it in action.

Information Rights Management protects sensitive information in your voice messages and e-mails in Outlook and Outlook WebApp. Watch the video to learn more.

Outlook and Outlook Web App let you set policies to archive and retain important e-mail for safekeeping. Watch the video to learn more.

With one unified inbox for incoming communications, you can get your e-mail, voicemail, presence, and instant messages in with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web Access.

It's quick and easy to share a document with others during Microsoft Office Communicator or Communicator Web app conversation. Watch the video to see how.

MailTips can tell you if a recipient is on vacation or how many people are on a contact list. See your e-mail as conversations and reduce inbox clutter. Watch the video to learn more.

It's quick and simple to initiate a conference call with your team or move from IM to a group chat or meeting using Office Communicator. Watch the video to learn more.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 identifies and blocks suspicious messages immediately to stop spam, scams, and blocking malicious access to your computer.

Your team can unify its e-mail, conferencing, calendars, voicemail and instant messaging across devices. Try it free for 60 days. Watch the video for details.

Intel is in the business of innovation, and all of the daily work at Intel relies on collaboration. Watch this video to see how Microsoft Unified Communications made that collaboration more efficient.

A collaborative effort by program managers, developers, testers, product management and senior executives that are working to deliver on Microsoft's vision for unified communications.

Discuss Unified Communications technologies with Microsoft experts and IT Pro Evangelists.

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See what's new with the team responsible for Microsoft's Office Communications Server.

Forrester Research found key improvements across Exchange Server 2010 that are significant when compared with older versions of Exchange, specifically in the areas of back-end infrastructure, information worker experience, and archiving. Download this whitepaper and see if an upgrade is right for your organization.

Exchange Server 2010 delivers voicemail messages directly to the users email inboxes and enables them to manage these messages using familiar methods and tools.

Savvy companies are doing something about the disparate communication silos that have long dominated the workplace, such as voice, instant messaging, audio/video conferencing, and e-mail, by adopting unified communications.

Intel wanted to provide users a unified collaboration platform to enable ease of switching among modes of communication. Intel deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 to deliver presence-enabled multimodal instant messaging and conference capabilities to all employees. Voice and video are also being deployed.

After completing this virtual lab you will be better able to install and administer Microsoft® Forefront Security on the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server role.

Microsoft is promising a brave new world of lower IT costs, increased user productivity and better risk management to customers that deploy its brand new Exchange Server 2010 (ES10). Can the company's flagship unified communications product deliver on this promise?

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 enables you to give your users larger mailboxes at lower cost without sacrificing performance or reliability. Built-in high availability and disaster recovery, storage system improvements, and self-healing from disk faults let you use large, inexpensive disks in configurations that maximize data redundancy.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 introduces integrated email archiving, retention, and discovery capabilities. These built-in tools can help you simplify the process of preserving and discovering email without having to change the way your users or administrators work with and manage Exchange Server.

This paper highlights potential savings exceeding $5,000,000 per year for each 1,000 employees through the application of Microsoft Unified Communications to your business and IT operations.

Many organizations are turning to new software-based conferencing and collaboration solutions for audio and Web conferencing as well as continued face-to-face conferencing via video. Companies who use these capabilities report achieving measurable improvements in their corporate performance including increased business efficiencies, total cost savings, and environmental footprint reductions.

Unified messaging (UM), providing companies with "anywhere-anytime" access to all types of IP-based messages, has become a "must-have" technology worth more than $708 million in 2008, researchers recently announced.

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A place for you to discuss the Exchange 2010 Beta. Post questions and comments about your experience with this trial software.