To compete successfully in today's challenging business climate, organizations must enable more efficient ways for information workers to communicate and collaborate. E-mail is currently the most widely used collaborative technology. More businesses use Exchange for e-mail-based collaboration than any other product. Exchange 2003 enables information workers to gain access to critical business communications almost whenever and wherever they need to and is designed to deliver greater security, availability, and reliability. Exchange 2003 sets a new benchmark for low total cost of ownership (TCO) by helping your information technology (IT) staff to do more with less through improved management tools.
If you're in an Exchange Server 5.5 environment, Exchange 2003 offers large costs savings by operating on fewer servers. With new resources and tools, the upgrade and migration to Exchange 2003 is smooth, fast, and cost-effective.
Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition is designed for large enterprise corporations and enables you to create multiple storage groups and multiple databases. Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition provides an unlimited message store that removes the constraints on the amount of data that a single server can manage. With Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition, you get:
All the features and products included in Exchange 2003 Standard Edition.
Database size limited only by your hardware (with a maximum size of 16 terabytes).
Multiple databases per server.
Clustering support for four nodes on Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server or eight nodes on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.
Outlook 2003, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2000 can connect to Exchange 2003*. Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2003 are designed to perform over slow, latent, or poor network connections. Examples are dial-up lines and wireless data links such as 1xRTT and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). New Outlook 2003 features include:
Exchange Cached Mode.
VPN-less connections that use the new remote procedure call (RPC) over HTTPS capability in Outlook 2003.
Remote Access
Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2003 has been improved for easier use, speed, and greater security. The popularity of Outlook Web Access is in part because the product is easy to support and use and no installation is necessary. Any browser-based computer can access Exchange with greater security, and, with the new UI, most users have to look twice to see if they are using Outlook 2003 or Outlook Web Access. The features include:
Spelling checker
Task list support
HTML and attachment blocking (prevents spam and potential beacon-finding code)
Automatic logoff (Forgot to logoff? Don't worrythe inactivity time-out automatically logs off and closes out your session.)
