What is Exchange?
Microsoft Exchange is the product that is being implemented across campus to replace email and calendaring, and to provide new services. Exchange is a back-end server product that provides email, calendaring, instant messaging, and other collaborative services. It may be connected to from a variety of sources, including web browsers and desktop clients such as Outlook 2003 & 2007 (Windows) or Entourage (Macintosh). ITS will refer to all exchange services as IRIS services to avoid any confusion.
Microsoft Exchange Server is the brand name for Microsoft’s email server software and is typically found in corporations running Microsoft Windows Server. In addition to email Exchange Servers also provide centralized company address books, shared calendars and web browser access. For more information see the Microsoft Exchange Server product page.
• From our Inbox: Advanced Find & filters • Deleting appointments • Export mail received date • Custom form printing Regular features: • New utilities • Updated utilities • Other new resources What Is Exchange? A visitor to my web site recently asked for an explanation of Microsoft Exchange, highlighting how much we sometimes take for granted that people who use Outlook know what Exchange is all about. Given some of the messages I’ve seen in the public newsgroups, I doubt that even all the organizations that have installed Exchange know why they’re using it, so perhaps an explanation is in order. First of all, Exchange is a mail server. It can handle POP, IMAP, and web clients, as well as its own preferred client, Outlook. But as just a mail server, Exchange is a rather expensive and complicated choice. It’s the collaboration features that make Exchange more than a mail server. Exchange allows people to share information, either using Outlook on the desktop or to a lesser extent, Outlo
