Microsoft will be releasing the beta of Exchange Server 2010 in parallel with the TechEd conference in June. In a blog entry posted on The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog mid-week, team member Michael Atalla wrote that "SP1 will include fixes and tweaks in areas you've helped us identify, including a roll-up of the roll-ups we've released to date."

In addition, Microsoft has also improved the Multi-Mailbox Search feature, which now comes with a new preview view to help estimate the number of items that will be recovered in the result-set, as well as a new management user interface (UI).

OWA, or Outlook Web App, will also see a number of improvements--most noticeably, the ability to perform various email operations such as delete, mark as read and categorize asynchronously. This translates into a much smoother user experience as users no longer have to wait for the UI to refresh. This new asynchronous ability also allows users to upload a large file while "not block[ing] the rest of the OWA experience."

For more on this story:
- check out the article at The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog
- check out the article at eWeek

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