Recent articles on Exchange
Ziff Davis
With the new high-function Outlook client and support for shareware, commercial POP3 clients, and Web browsers, Microsoft has addressed the primary weaknesses of the Exchange client. Exchange 5.0 lets you use any Web browser that supports frames and JavaScript to connect to a mailbox on an Exchange server.
Follow these principles to apply best operational practices to Exchange.
Exchange's public folders provide easy access to information and let users share documents.
Maintain Internet mail flow, preserve users' Internet mail addresses, and archive external messages while you migrate to Exchange.
Enhance your Exchange deployment with the Exchange Server Resource Kit software tools, including simple programs and NT services.
To deploy Exchange in a large enterprise, you need to consider the Windows NT infrastucture, network connections and bandwidth, the shape of the Exchange organization, and server connections.
With Release 5.5 of Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp. is taking its first steps toward making its messaging package serve as a platform for groupware applications.
The latest versions of Domino, Exchange and GroupWise show across-the-board improvements, but have not fallen far from the tree
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 is an idea whose time has almost come. In its previous incarnations, Exchange was not always a good network neighbor with non-Microsoft mail clients, mail servers and Web servers.
Some companies choose not to use Microsoft Exchange Server because it limits the size of the information store, while Lotus Notes has had unlimited message storage for some time. Exchange Server 5.5 should relieve that concern, because its information store is limited only by the hardware that runs it.
While the new security system will bring Exchange closer to Lotus Notes, Exchange still will lack some of the message-based security features available in Notes, such as the ability to require multiple digital signatures for sensitive messages.