Microsoft offers "a glimpse" of what will be first major update of Exchange Server 2010. Estimated Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will debut in late, have a range of new features and capabilities, including improvements to the feature storage, the client software, the developer Michael Atalla Exchange team said.

The update will allow users to set up an archive folder in the mailbox can be set separately from the main mailbox, better support for database administrators to keep their primary e-mail management in size be reasonable. In Exchange Server 2010 SP1, the browser client applications known as Outlook Web Access (OWA) will have new features. Thanks to ability to pre-fetch messages and run multiple operations, end users will see OWA seems faster.

OWA user interface has been rearranged for easier to read. And first, OWA users can read and compose messages are protected by technology IRM from Microsoft. The new version also will bring many improvements in the administration interface, search capability. It will also offer all the features, fixes since first release of Exchange 2010. As planned, the beta version of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 will be released in June in the company's TechEd conference.