Chapter 13: Bringing It All Together-How to Proceed

Chapter 13: Bringing It All Together-How to Proceed

Things you'll enjoy about Exchange Server

These are the best things I've enjoyed when working with Exchange. Selecting aspects of a product that are pleasing is a very personal activity, so feel free to disagree? The points are not listed in any order of importance because they're all important.


	?	*MAPI* . The power and flexibility of the Messaging Application Program Interface can be seen in Microsoft's own clients as well as the MAPI service providers appearing from other vendors.


	?	*Exchange clients* are easy and powerful to use, even if they require fairly substantial hardware resources for truly satisfactory performance. Microsoft have followed their own user interface standards to good effect. Outlook is an interesting alternative to the standard client and is the right choice for 32-bit desktops. Outlook Web Access is a splendid example of excellence in user interface design for Web applications, although its splendour has to be paid for by network bandwidth.


	?	*Single point of administration* . Maybe it's missing some features that I'd like to see included, but the Exchange Administration program is the most integrated messaging administration utility I've ever encountered to date.


	?	*The transactional nature of the Information Store* is a huge advance on Microsoft's previous file sharing architecture. It's also at the center of Exchange's ability to scale up for corporate implementations. The single-file-entity nature of databases poses challenges of its own, but good planning minimizes...

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