To complete successfully in today's challenging business climate, organizations must enable more efficient ways for information workers to communicate and collaborate. E-mail is currently the most widely used collaborative technology. More businesses use Exchange for e-mail-based collaboration than any other product. Exchange 2003 enables information workers to gain access to critical business communications almost whenever and wherever they need to and is designed to deliver greater security, availability, and reliability. Exchange 2003 sets a new benchmark for low total cost of ownership (TCO) by helping your information technology (IT) staff to do more with less through improved management tools.
Exchange 2003 is available in two editions
Exchange 2003 Standard Edition Exchange 2003 Standard Edition is designed to meet the messaging and collaboration needs of small and medium-size corporations. With Exchange 2003 Standard Edition, you get: Exchange 2003 The flexibility to be configured as a Microsoft Office Outlook® Web Access front-end server 16-gigabyte (GB) data storage maximum Recovery Storage Group
Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition
All the features and products included in Exchange 2003 Standard Edition
Database size limited only by your hardware (with a maximum size of 16 terabytes).
Multiple databases per server
Clustering support for four nodes on Microsoft Windows® 2000 Advanced Server or eight nodes on Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition
FEATURES AT A GLANCE
Active Directory integration Integrated with Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Active Directory® directory service for lower TCO
Single-seat administration with Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
Policies for quickly changing a wide range of objects such as mailboxes
Use of Windows Server 2003 system access control lists (SACLs) to make secure e-mail messaging and collaboration easy
Windows Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) 2.0 helps ease the migration of Microsoft Windows NT® Server 4.0 accounts to Active Directory with its password migration
Scalable database architecture
Up to 16 GB per mailbox database and up to 20 mailbox databases per server
Multiple message databases per server running Exchange for fast backup and restore, flexible data management, and increased reliability
Coexistence Organizations do not have to upgrade or migrate overnight. Exchange 2003 operates with Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 and coexists with Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000, all within the same topology.
Exchange 2003 also operates with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Outlook 2002 (Office XP), and Outlook 2000. Outlook Web Access can be used on other client platforms through browsers.
Enhanced security Secure defaults (for example, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [SMTP] relay, Post Office Protocol 3 [POP3], and Internet Message Access Protocol [IMAP] are turned off by default)
Improved ability to restrict connections and e-mail messages
Support for Outlook Web Access automatic logoff, Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME), HTML, and attachment blocking
New antispam features and integration with Office Outlook 2003 Safe and Block Sender lists
New Virus Scanning API 2.5 for improved antivirus solutions
Support for Windows Server 2003 Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0, which isolates applications
Low TCO messaging and collaboration environment Multiple database architecture enables new consolidation opportunities for users of Exchange 5.5
Enhanced administrative tools for mailbox management
New client logging and error reporting tools for faster problem resolution
Integration with Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy service for fast, reliable backup and restore
Outlook Web Access New, enhanced Outlook Web Access for fast access to Exchange from the Internet and with greater security. The new user interface (UI) is updated to mirror the Outlook 2003 UI and includes new features such as spelling checker, tasks lists, S/MIME support for security, and HTML content blocking for security
Integrated support for mobile devices Windows powered mobile devices can synchronize directly with Exchange 2003 for enhanced security
Integrated support for HTML, Extensible HTML (XHTML), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.x, and compressed HTML (CHTML) mobile microbrowsers
Integration with Outlook 2003 Enhanced performance and Exchange Cached Mode enables use over low bandwidth as well as over latent and poor network connections
Improved UI enables users to prioritize overloaded Inboxes
High availability Improved virtual memory management
Improved Outlook performance logging to the server
Faster cluster failover times with Windows Server 2003
Support for four-node and eight-node clusters
Support for Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0, which isolates applications
Faster deployment New resources and prescriptive guidance on deployment
New premigration analysis and reporting tools
New Active Directory Migration Tools (ADMT 2.0)
Active Directory Connector Wizard
Internet Mail Setup Wizard
Mailbox and public folder migration tools
Clustering support Eight-way clustering (requires Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition)
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