Conrad Agramont's WebLog

Released to Web: Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.5

The Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.5 has now been released to the web!

http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/hostedmessaging.mspx

Now that it’s released, I’ll upgrade my lab and report back on what I find.

Without going into great detail, here is a quick list of some of the improvments from HMC 3.0:

1. Support for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (including the new Mobility features provided with the SP2 update)
2. Integraiton with "Microsoft Identity Integration Server" (MIIS) to enable "Single Password" support between a corporate customer and their hosted services.
3. Migration Tools that enable migrating a customer from their current Exchange platform to easily migrate their data to their hosted service.
4. Improvements to the MPS Deployment Tool.

Here is a link to an MS site that defines what's new in the solution: http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/hostedmessagingnew.mspx