Microsoft® Exchange Server

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Microsoft^® Exchange Server

Overview | Features | System Requirements | Related Products

Microsoft Exchange Server integrates e-mail, group scheduling, electronic forms, and groupware applications on a single platform that can be managed with a centralized, easy-to-use administration program. It is designed to make messaging easier, more reliable, and more scalable for businesses of all sizes.

Use the Internet to access and send your e-mail from anywhere:

Easy personal Internet e-mail: Send and receive your e-mail by connecting to an Internet Service Provider from any location with Microsoft Exchange.
High-performance organization Internet e-mail: Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Connector provides fast multi-threaded connectivity. MIME is supported for sending and receiving messages with rich attachments, including video and audio clips.
Easily control Internet Mail access: Manage who sends and receives Internet Mail with the Exchange Internet Mail Connector. Reject or accept messages on a per host basis.
Virtual networks: Connect Microsoft Exchange Servers together or to clients over the Internet - avoid expensive WAN and dial-up charges.

Features

E-mail:

Universal Inbox for access to all information sources via MAPI
Integrated remote connectivity via Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and remote-access services (RAS)
Rich-text formatting and editing, including drag-and-drop and in-place editing
Server-based rules (AutoAssistants) for processing mail— Customizable toolbar
Optional digital signatures and public and private key encryption
Integration with the Windows^® NT^™ security model for secure logons, discretionary access controls, auditing, and security IDs
Native X.400 Message Transfer Agent conforming to the CCITT 1984 and 1988 standard
Native SMTP connectivity including support for RFC 821, RFC 822, Test RFC 1154, and RFC 1521 (MIME)
Choice of combination of server-based and/or local mailboxes
Multimaster, event-driven replication of directories within Microsoft Exchange sites
Customizable user attributes in address book.

Groupware:

Built-in bulletin boards, document libraries, and customer-tracking applications
Customizable views for specifying columns, grouping, sorting criteria to organize, manage and display information in folder
Messaging-based replication of public folders
Microsoft Exchange Forms Designer
Sample public folder applications
Extension of Microsoft Exchange applications with Visual Basic^® and Visual C++^®
Group scheduling and personal calendar
Integrated task and contact management
Multiple calendar views
More than 1,500 print layouts, including trifold.

Administration:

Centralized management of system components with the graphical Administrator program
Server and link monitors for automatic notification and escalation of system problems
Integration with Performance Monitor and Event Viewer in Microsoft Windows NT Server
Network-independent protocol support enables coexistence with Novell^® NetWare^®
Migration utilities for migrating account information, mailboxes, and folder data from Microsoft Mail for PC Networks and AppleTalk^® Networks, PROFS^®, and other systems
Microsoft Mail Connector for coexistence with Microsoft Mail users
Directory Synchronization Service for 32-bit multithreaded synchronization with Microsoft Mail and other systems
Batch creation of users from Windows NT Server, NetWare 3.x Bindery, and NetWare 4.x NDS
Delegate access to mailboxes
Automatically create a Microsoft Exchange mailbox with a Windows NT user account
Delegated distribution list management.

System Requirements

Server:
Intel^® and compatible systems:

System with 486/66 or faster processor (Intel Pentium^® 90 recommended)
24 MB of memory (32 MB recommended)
250 to 500 MB available hard disk space

RISC-based systems:

System with MIPS^® R4x00 or Alpha AXP^™ processor:
32 MB of memory (48 MB recommended)
300 to 500 MB available hard disk space
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.51 or later
CD-ROM drive
3.5" Macintosh^® disk drive (if installing Microsoft Mail Connector for Appletalk^®)

Clients:
For Microsoft Windows version 3.1, Windows for Workgroups version 3.11 and Windows 95:

8 MB of memory (12 MB recommended)
12 to 22 MB available hard disk space

For Microsoft Windows NT version 3.51 on Intel-based systems:

16 MB of memory (20 MB recommended)
12 to 22 MB available hard disk space

For Microsoft Windows NT version 3.51 on RISC-based systems, see enclosed documentation
For MS-DOS^® version 5.0 or later

1 MB of memory (460K free conventional memory)
2 to 3 MB available hard disk space

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