Exchange Server 2003 / 2007
Exchange Server is the corporate standard for email server for the most common form of business communication.
Features
Exchange server stores all data in centralized storage, which will make possible all messages to be backed up, archived and restored according to corporate email policy and compliance requirements. It has the collaboration features of calendar, contact sharing, meeting requests, task requests, meeting rooms and other resource booking.
Smartphone such as iPhones, Windows Mobile are supported using Exchange ActiveSync. As well as required for Blackberry server for use of blackberries. Outlook Web Access is also a feature where all contact and calendar and mail folder data is in Sync and has a very Outlook like style, so in some situations users do not need the Outlook client, saving licensing costs. Public Folders for sharing email folders & integration with SharePoint make Exchange a great solution for company email and collaboration.
Exchange 2007 - New Features
Exchange 2007 comes with advanced features such as Anti-spam, Antivirus, Content filtering, clustering and database replication options, PowerShell scripting for faster routine tasks for admin, unlimited database size. Exchange 2007 consists of Server Roles such as Hub Transport, Client Access, Mailbox. By spreading those to separate server, the system will be highly scalable. However, it is also possible to load these server roles on the same server (except Edge Transport).
Exchange 2007 requires 64bit Windows Server operating system on x64 compatible CPU. For multiple server roles, 4 CPU cores, 8 GB RAM plus from 2 MB to 5 MB per mailbox.
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