Exchange Server 2013 Enterprise Edition

Exchange Server 2013 Enterprise Edition

The Microsoft Exchange is a server from Microsoft meant to be used in conjunction with Windows Server. It provides email management, scheduling, and calendar services to businesses of all sizes. Microsoft Exchange Server gives businesses access to a powerful messaging platform on desktops, tablets, smartphones, and web-based systems. There is support for voice messaging, calendar and document sharing, and extensive storage and security features that allow businesses to archive documents, search files, and execute compliance tasks more efficiently.

Exchange Features:

Mobile navigation
Access your Exchange account from all of your devices. Get your emails, calendars, and contacts on the go, wherever you are.

Exchange ActiveSync
With Exchange ActiveSync, everything you do is synchronised immediately across all of your , devices. Your Exchange is always up-to-date, keeping your business on top of things.

Offline Message Viewing
An excellent caching system lets you view your emails offline. Never go without reading your important emails even when you are somewhere without an Internet connection.

New Features of Microsoft Exchange:

• Exchange Administration Center – It used to be that Exchange Server had the EMC (Exchange Management Console) and the ECP (Exchange Control Panel), which are web based. Exchange 2013 brings  everything to the web console. This makes it easier to access these features no matter where you are.

• Exchange Architecture  – Five server roles were used to ensure a single one didn’t bring down a computer or create performance issues. 2013 now has just two server roles. They are: the Client Access server role and the Mailbox server role.

• SQL for Storage – The ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) database engine was used in previous versions, and it’s no different in Exchange 2013. The ESE code has been completely rewritten in C# to make it more resistant to issues and to keep it up for longer periods of time.

• Public Folder Changes – Public folders are still available in Exchange 2013, but they are used a bit differently. They are considered part of the Exchange Administration Center. This means they are treated as public folder mailboxes and stored with other mailbox databases, making back up relatively easy.

• Anti-malware protection – New, more powerful malware protection is a part of the Exchange. Microsoft states that, “All messages sent or received by your Exchange server are scanned for malware. If malware is detected, the message is deleted.”

• Mobile Friendly Outlook Web App – The user interface for the Outlook Web App is redesigned to look better on tablets, phones, and desktop computers. This means you can use Outlook easier on all devices.

The Microsoft Server Enterprise Edition allows for up to 50 mailboxes. This is perfect for larger businesses with intensive scheduling and email needs. To find out if this is the right edition for your company, check out SoftwareKeep and let us help you decide.

These are minimum system requirements for installing Exchange Server 2013 Enterprise Edition

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

• Edge Transport   4GB minimum

Paging file size

The page file size minimum and maximum must be set to physical RAM plus 10  MB, to a maximum size of 32778MB if you're using more than 32GB of RAM.

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.

File format

Disk partitions formatted as NTFS file systems, which applies to the following partitions:

• System partition

• Partitions that store Exchange binary files or files generated by Exchange diagnostic logging

Disk partitions containing the following types of files can be formatted as ReFS:

• Partitions containing transaction log files

• Partitions containing database files

• Partitions containing content indexing files