Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server allows you to get business-class email, calendar, and contacts delivered on your PC, phone, and browser. With a simplified approach to high availability and disaster recovery, achieve new levels of reliability and reduce complexity, while protecting sensitive and confidential information.

Key Features:

• The Exchange building block modelsimplifies deployments at all scales, standardises high availability and client load balancing, and improves cross-version interoperability.
• Enjoy more uptimethrough faster failover times and support for multiple databases per volume.
• A built-in monitoring and managed availabilitysolution provides self-healing features to automatically recover from failures.
• Simplified load-balancing optionsimprove flexibility and scale even while reducing cost.
• Reduce storage costsby using larger, less expensive disks.
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP)capabilities prevent users from mistakenly sending sensitive information to unauthorised people, while informing them of internal compliance policies.
• Keep all your important data in one placeby giving users an In-Place Archive with a native, well-integrated user experience.
• Run In-Place eDiscoveryacross Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync data from a single interface through the eDiscovery Center.
• Mobile device policieslet you create approved mobile device lists, enforce PIN lock, and remove confidential company data from lost phones.
• Simplify deploymentwith custom instructions for installing or upgrading to Exchange.
• Manage your organisation efficientlywith the Exchange Administration Center, an easy-to-use, web-based interface.
• Delegate permissions to specialist usersbased on job function, such as eDiscovery for compliance officers, without giving them access to the entire Exchange management interface.
• Move to the cloud on your termswith full deployment flexibilitywhether on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid combination of the two.

Exchange Server - Features

Current features:

• Remain in Control, Online and On-premises: Exchange lets the user to tailer their solution based on unique needs and ensures that communications are always available.
  
  • Cloud: Exchange provides the user with flexible options for moving to the cloud, whether that’s onboarding to the cloud overnight or managing a hybrid deployment with mailboxes both on-premises and online. Limit user disruption when mailboxes are smoothly moved across environments, and let users share calendars and schedule meetings, regardless of the environment their mailbox is in.
  • Mantain Control: Exchange Administration Center allow users to manage powerful capabilities, including Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and site mailboxes. Role-based access control empowers the users helpdesk and specialist users to perform specific tasks without requiring full administrative permissions.
  • Data: Empower users with a large mailbox to allow them the flexibility to retain email in their primary mailbox or move items to an In-Place Archive. With flexible and powerful retention policies, users can take control of your storage and compliance demands while keeping users productive.
    
    
• Any Device: Manage increasing volumes of communications across multiple devices and work together more effectively as teams.
  
  • Inbox: Allow users to get more done from anywhere with a clean, uncluttered inbox that focuses on the relevant and important information.
  • Collaboration: Site mailboxes let users collaborate on projects, get up to speed quickly on teams they join, and share information easily. Co-authoring, document storage, and versioning are provided by SharePoint, while messaging is handled by Exchange, for a complete user experience, including document access.
  • Customisation: Extension model that allows users to provide easy plug-in access to web-based apps within both Outlook and Outlook Web App. With single sign-on to multiple apps, users can reduce complexity for users and give them secure, authorised access for each approved application.
    
    
• Keep Organised: Protect business communication and sensitive information in order to meet internal and regulatory compliance.
  
  • Eliminate Threats: Exchange actively protects your communications with built-in defenses against viruses, spam, and phishing attacks.
  • Protection: Prevent users from mistakenly sending sensitive information to unauthorised people. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) features identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data through deep content analysis, and PolicyTips in Outlook inform users about policy violations before sensitive data is sent. Built-in DLP policies are based on regulatory standards such as PII and PCI, plus Exchange can support other policies important to your business.
  • eDiscovery Center: Ensure internal and regulatory compliance by using the new eDiscovery Center to identify, hold, and analyse your organisation's data from Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. The data always remains in-place, so you never have to manage a separate store of data.

Exchange Server - System Requirements

Operating System:

• Mailbox and Client Access server roles
  
  • Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
    
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1
    
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1
    
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter RTM or later
• Management Tools
  
  • Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
    
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1
    
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1
    
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter RTM or later
    
  • 64-bit edition of Windows 8
    
  • 64-bit edition of Windows 7 with SP1

Hardware Requirements:

• Processor:
  • x64 architecture-based computer with Intel processor that supports Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as Intel EM64T)
    
  • AMD processor that supports the AMD64 platform
    
  • Intel Itanium IA64 processors not supported
• Memory: Varies depending on Exchange roles that are installed:
  • Mailbox 8GB minimum
    
  • Client Access 4GB minimum
    
  • Mailbox and Client Access combined 8GB minimum
• Paging File Size: The page file size minimum and maximum must be set to physical RAM plus 10 MB
  
• Disk Space:
  
  • At least 30 GB on the drive on which you install Exchange
    
  • An additional 500 MB of available disk space for each Unified Messaging (UM) language pack that you plan to install
    
  • 200 MB of available disk space on the system drive
    
  • A hard disk that stores the message queue database on with at least 500 MB of free space.
• Drive: DVD-ROM drive, local or network accessible
  
• Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768 pixels or higher
  
• File Format: Disk partitions formatted as NTFS file systems, which applies to the following partitions:
  • System partition
    
  • Partitions that store Exchange binary files
    
  • Partitions containing transaction log files
    
  • Partitions containing database files
    
  • Partitions containing other Exchange files