Exchange Server

Exchange Server

Inter-office Email

Standard POP3 email can be used to send email within your office. Exchange Server, however, makes inter-office email much easier to use and administer.

Public Folders

Public Folders are centralized folders that can be accessed by all employees. Access to these folders can be restricted (by user or group) to provide whatever level of security is needed. Public Folders can contain any kind of information including Contact info (Name, address, phone, email, etc), Appointments (Calendars), Tasks, or Email. Some examples of public folders include:

Group Enabled Outlook Features

With Exchange Server, everything in Outlook becomes “group enabled”. Your calendar, task list, Inbox, etc. can all be viewed or modified by other users. Of course, you decide how much, if any, access you want to allow to your information. Now any one can find out where you are and when you will be back just by checking your calendar.

Meeting Planner

Exchange Server features a Meeting Planner that lets you select users for a meeting, checks each user’s calendar to determine a free time, and then notifies each user and updates their calendars with the scheduled meeting.

Out of Office Assistant

Exchange Server provides a simple tool to notify others when you are out of the office. Just go to the Out of Office Assistant, tell it you are out of the office, and type a message. Whenever you receive email, the sender automatically receives an email back with your message. If you will be gone for a long time, you can have your email forwarded to another user so nothing falls through the cracks.

Outlook Web Access

Outlook Web Access is Web browser based version of Outlook with almost all the same features. Now you can access your email, calendar, contacts, etc. any time, from any PC, from anywhere in the world, via a Web browser..

Unlimited Internet Email Addresses

Exchange Server allows each of your users to have has many email addresses as they want. John Doe’s email address can be john@…, jdoe@…, johnd@…, and sales@… all at the same time. Exchange Server also supports as many different domain names as you want. You can have addresses at mycompany.com, mycompany.cc, and myothercompany.com all at the same time.

Real Time Email

With Exchange Server, everything happens right now. You receive your email as soon as it arrives at the server and when you send an email it goes immediately.

Administration

Exchange Server provides easier and more complete administration of email. With standard POP3 email, everything is stored on each user’s individual PC. With Exchange Server, all the data is stored in a database on the server. There are many benefits to this: