TABLE OF CONTENTS The Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server role is, without surprise, the one hosting mailbox database in which the user s mailboxes are stored. This is also the server role that hosts Public Folder databases, which contain the Public Folders organizations use for sharing documents, calendars, contacts, and tasks as well as for archiving distribution lists. As you saw in Chapter 2, where we went through a typical installation of Exchange Server 2007, a legacy Outlook client (that is, Outlook 2003 and earlier) requires a Public Folder database to connect to Exchange Server 2007.
In addition to being the server that hosts mailbox and Public Folder databases, the mailbox server also provides rich calendaring functionality, resource management, and offline address book downloads. The Mailbox Server role also provides services that calculate e-mail address policies (called recipient policies in Exchange Server 2000 and 2003) as well as address lists for recipients. Finally, this server role enforces managed folders.
| Note | If all end users use Outlook 2007 and you don t use Public Folders for sharing documents, calendars, contacts, and tasks as well as for archiving distribution lists, you don t need to create a Public Folder database on your Exchange 2007 Server(s). The reason is that Outlook 2007, in addition to MAPI, uses Web services for accessing things such as free/busy information, out-of-office (OOF) messages, offline address books (OABs), and the like. Since it s the Exchange 2007 Client Access Server roles that are responsible for these Web services, we won t cover them in this... |
