Windows Mobile-based device users will enjoy increased access and better performance with their synchronized mailboxes with Exchange Server 2007 as the ActiveSync platform is improved. Microsoft is licensing ActiveSync to other mobile providers in an effort to make Exchange synchronization capabilities available on a number of device platforms, not just Windows Mobile devices.

This isn't anything totally new. Indeed, most of the capabilities that Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 included are available in Exchange 2007, including a security wipe feature that remotely deletes all data on a phone that an administrator reports lost or stolen, and push messaging support, which allows messages to be delivered directly to a connected device. This is a much better solution than the text-message prompted synchronization that occurred with these devices before SP2.

Hardware requirements

Bridging voice and data will require the use of an IP-based private branch exchange, or a voice-over-IP gateway that will allow phone users to call into their mailbox and let voice messages to be routed to a user's Exchange mailbox.

Currently, Cisco Systems Inc. and a number of other solution providers are testing compatibility with their different call management products with Exchange Server 2007, and many products are expected to be fully functional with unified messaging upon Exchange's release in early 2007.