Overview

The Store (or Information Store) has always been at the heart of Exchange. If you doubt this adage, stop the Information Store service and discover just how quickly users protest when they can't get to their mailboxes. Like any critical component, we have to understand, manage, maintain, and protect the Store. The term "Web Storage system" is used in cases when the Store provides content to web clients. A certain Zen has developed around the Store and its underlying technology during the previous releases of Exchange. Exchange 2000 takes the Zen further and lays the foundation to scale Exchange to support tens of thousands of users. Given the importance of the Store, there is much to discuss. Let's get to it.