Exchange Mail Servers
Exchange Mail Servers are the defacto standard in Windows networks. The advantages of dedicated mail servers are many. Here are a few Microsoft white papers on Exchange Server. You can download a good overview of MS Exchange 2007 as a PDF file. Obviously they have a bias to their products, but the marketplace has given them high praise for the Exchange Server if we consider the number of deployments and the awards garnered. CRN rated Exchange 2007 application software of the year after its release in 2006. For those of you who want to know more about Exchange, here is a list of online references on Microsoft Exchange. Some new features of Exchange 2007 are: a better management console that combines all management tasks into one user interface, allowing the network administrator to manage multiple Exchange servers, recipients, and organizational components in your organization.Exchange Management Shell is a new task-based command line shell and scripting language for system administration allowing you to perform every task that the Exchange Management Console can perform as well as additional tasks that cannot be performed in the Exchange Management Console.Unified messaging (UM)combines multiple messaging infrastructures into a single messaging infrastructure. Therefore, Exchange 2007 users who are enabled for Unified Messaging can receive all voice mail, e-mail, and fax messages in their Exchange 2007 mailboxes and can access their mailboxes from a variety of devices. These devices include mobile devices and cellular, analog, or digital telephones.Exchange 2007 supports 64-bit architecture for improved performance and capacity. Exchange 2007 lets you create as many as 50 storage groups per server. When multiple Exchange 2007 computers that are running the Hub Transport server role are deployed in a site, mail flow between Hub Transport servers and Mailbox servers is automatically load balanced and can failover to increase uptime. High availability for Mailbox servers with local continuous replication (LCR), cluster continuous replication (CCR), and single copy clusters (SCC), allowing multiple copies of the mail store on the same server or other servers. Compliance features to apply rules to messages that are sent and to enforce retention requirements for stored data.Improved anti-spam and antivirus features to block unsolicited and unwanted e-mail at the network perimeter. AutoDiscover features to optimize remote user connection speeds. Exchange Web Services provide access to the mailboxes of authenticated users and the items in their mailboxes.Call Coastway to discuss your Exchange Server deployment. We can provide a quote for a new installation or migration. Here are some more Exchange Server Resources.
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