Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Part C

This is the 3rd installment in my blog post series on Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 based on the video training course by Infinite Skills of the same name. Your edge transport role server is in what we call the demilitarized zone with a firewall in front and behind and is on the perimeter of your network. The edge transport role server was not originally a part of Exchange 2013 and it was necessary to run Exchange 2010 with service pack 3 to do this job. Of course this changed with Exchange 2013 with service pack 1. If you run the online version of Exchange which is part of the Office 365 suite it works out at only around £4 per client and might be a good choice for small companies. An object is anything in the real world that needs representing within the program and Exchange 2013 has support for 20,000 objects which is a huge upgrade on the 500 of Exchange 2010. The infrastructure of an exchange network is normally to have several sites with a particular object represented in one site to avoid replication which is a new feature of 2013. We call this being web based with each site having its own URL. The links between the different domains or sites we call transitive trusts. It's always simpler to have one domain but in practice multiple ones are used. A multiple domain is called a tree and several multiple domains is called a forest. A domain controller is a server running active directory directory services on it. A global catalog server is a kind of index of information on the network and microsoft recommends having 2 per domain. Exchange Administration Center handles public folders among other things. I'll try and do another post in this series tonight.