Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

Microsoft Exchange 2003

Is the Microsoft messaging and collaboration server designed to help your business communicate more effectively. Along with the rich client functionality provided by Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003, Exchange 2003 offers mobile, remote, and desktop e-mail access with state-of-the-art security and privacy; lower cost of ownership through the services provided by Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003; high reliability and outstanding performance; e-mail-based collaboration; and easy upgrading, deployment, and administration.

Active Solutions can supply, configure and install Microsoft Exchange 2003 to meet your requirements. Call 0870 112 0887 to discuss further.

 

Today’s business climate is more challenging than ever. Businesses are under constant pressure to compete more effectively. Economic conditions call for careful spending and a sharp eye for improving operational efficiency. In addition, increased concerns about security are top of mind. In short, IT decision makers are required to do more with less and do it dependably and securely. To compete more effectively businesses must enable more efficient ways for information workers to collaborate. Email is currently the most widely used collaborative technology and more businesses use Microsoft® Exchange for email-based collaboration than any other product.

To help companies meet today’s challenges Microsoft is committed to making Exchange the most secure and reliable messaging server available. At the same time we are helping information workers collaborate more productively by making mobile and remote access to Exchange easier than ever before. Exchange Server 2003 helps reduce costs by making full use of the services provided by the Windows Server 2003 operating system and the rich client functionality provided by Microsoft Office System 2003 to deliver a more secure, reliable and easy to access set of email-based collaboration services.

 

 

Features at a glance

Technology Capabilities
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)