Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Part B

This is the 2nd installment in my blog post series on Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 which is based on what I've learnt on the Infinite Skills video training course of the same name. The 3 types of information for users  stored on Exchange Server are email, calendaring and address books. Exchange stores, routes and delivers email. With the calendars others can see them and see what you have scheduled and make appointments. There is also an address typically for each department ie human resources, sales etc. Outlook is often used in conjunction with this program and there is also outlook web app and this still uses the same acronym OWA but has had the name modified and the program has been considerably updated. It can also route things to mobile devices. The exchange administration center is a new feature combining several different modules in earlier versions. It's also accessed via a URL which is new. All data is stored in databases. It still uses jet EDB databases but where as these could be unreliable in previous versions in this they have been updated and the problems ironed out. It was rumoured they were using a different form of database in this version prior to its release. Exchange Server works with Windows Server 2008 R2 & Windows Server 2012 and later versions will work with Windows Server 2012 R2. There are 2 server roles in Exchange Server 2013 but 5 in 2010. Each role is a separate server but modern practice is to put several server roles onto one server and partition it. A 3rd role has been added to Exchange Server 2013 SP1 which is edge transport server role. The other 2 roles are mailbox server role and client access server role. Two of the roles in 2010 have been combined. The main reason we have less server roles is the processors are faster and more efficient. The edge transport server role is based on the perimeter of the network and handles all the email coming to and from the organization. I'll try and do another blog post in this series later tonight.