Microsoft Exchange Server Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Microsoft Exchange Server is a collaborative software server from Microsoft, positioned as a rival to the Lotus Notes / Domino server from IBM. The use of Microsoft Exchange is very widespread in large corporations using Microsoft infrastructure solutions.Among other things, Microsoft Exchange manages electronic mail, and is thus a popular mail server.
Microsoft Exchange Server uses a proprietary RPC protocol, of which only the API is documented (see MAPI), and is used almost exclusively from the Microsoft Outlook client. However there also exists a rival client program in the form of a plug-in program for Ximian Evolution called Connector.
The current version of Exchange is 2003 SP 1. And is compatible with Windows 2000 Server, and Windows 2003. Like Windows 2003, Exchange 2003 has many compatibility modes to allow users to move over in a slower fashion than the all at once that was used in the past. This is handy since many large companies use distributed Exchange environments, and can not afford the downtime, and often the expense that comes with an all at once migration.
Among the new features in 2003 is enhanced disaster recovery allowing administrators to bring the server online more quickly, by allowing the server to send and receive mail while the message stores and being recovered from back up. Better anti-virus and anti-spam protection, by providing built-in APIs the facilitate filtering software, also new is the ability to drop inbound e-mail before being processed. Also are improved message and mailbox management tools, which allow administrators to execute common chores more quickly.
Exchange 2003 is available in two versions Standard edition, which has a 16GB message database maximum and one database per a server, and Enterprise Edition which allows an 16TB maximum database size, and up to 20 databases per a server. Enterprise Edition also supports clustering, 4 node when using Windows 2000 Server, and 8 node with Windows 2003.
Like Windows Server products Exchange requires Client Access Licenses, which are different and cost more than Windows CALs.
Exchange 2003 is included with the Microsoft Small Business Server Product.
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