What is Exchange?
It is a service from Microsoft that provides an all-in-one view of your email, calendar, task list, and address book. Some colleges and departments at Cornell already run their own Exchange server. Cornell Information Technologies will be installing a campus-wide Exchange server. The software that faculty and staff will use is called Outlook on Windows computers, and Entourage (or Apple Mail) on Macintosh computers. There will also be a web-based service called Outlook Web Access, which, just like the current Cornell WebMail, will enable faculty and staff to access their account from any computer, anywhere, that has a web browser (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox).
Exchange is one of the most popular messaging and collaboration server in the world. Business users are more familiar with Outlook, the e-mail client. Microsoft Exchange Server is the engine that powers all those wonderful e-mail and information-sharing features in Outlook. Microsoft Exchange serves two purposes: 1. Mail Server: Exchange supports POP, IMAP, and web e-mail clients, as well as its own preferred mail client, Microsoft Outlook. 2. Collaboration server: Exchange allows users to share information, either using Outlook on their desktops or Outlook Web Access through a web browser. It enables Outlook’s most important features for collaboration – public folders to which everyone can contribute and view files, calendars for scheduling meetings or reserving resources like conference rooms, common address books for sharing contact information, and much more.
