Exchange 2000 Service Pack 2 Now Available

The second service packs for Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server are now available and merit special attention by organizations using Exchange. Like their predecessors, the new service packs go beyond performance and security enhancements and contain numerous new features. These features will particularly benefit three groups: users of Exchange’s browser-based client, Outlook Web Access; Exchange administrators; and messaging application service providers whose customers use, OWA.

The new service packs contain all the features and hotfixes contained in the first service packs, integrate 94 additional hotfixes created since Service Pack (SP) 1, and remedy more than 3,000 bugs discovered since Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server first shipped.

New Features for OWA Users

All Exchange users will benefit from SP2’s improved performance and reliability, and OWA users will particularly benefit now that OWA resembles and behaves more like the full Outlook client. However, most of the new OWA features require Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 or higher.