2. Exchange Syllabus
• Architecture of Exchange Server, SMTP, POP3, NNTP,
IMAP Protocols
• Configuring Server, Recipients, Distribution List.
• Clients Configuration (MS Outlook Web Access, MS
Outlook Express, MS Outlook 2003)
• Stores and Storage Groups, Public Folders.
• User Properties.
• Backup & Recovery Storage Group.
• Configuring Connectors (RGC, SMTP, X.400, ADC)
• Up-gradation from Exchange 2000 to 2003 Application.
• Mailbox Recovery Center
• Active Directory Clean Up Wizard
• Message Tracking Center.

3. What is Exchange Server?
• Exchange server is an electronic messaging
system used not only for e-mails but also
used for Document Sharing, Conferencing
& Groupware Communication.
• It is called as client/server model.

4. FLAVOURS OF EXCHANGE 2003
• Standard Edition
• Enterprise Edition

5. Standard Edition
• Meant for small size organization.
• Supports two databases,mailbox store and
public folder store.
• Database limit is 16GB each.
• Clustering is not supported

6. Enterprise Edition
• Meant for medium & large size
organization.
• Supports up to 20 databases per server.
• Database size is unlimited.
• Clustering is supported(up to 8 nodes).

8. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
• Windows server 2000 family: Standard Server,
Advance server,Data center server with sp3 or
later.
• Windows server 2003 family: Standard edition,
Enterprise edition,Data center server.
Note: Exchange 2003 does not run on 64-bit
edition of windows server 2003.

9. HARDWARE REQUIREMENT
ITEMS MINIMUM RECOMMENDED
CPU 133MHZ Pentium or higher 733mhz
processor.
RAM 256MB 512MB
DISK 500MB of free hard disk space
SPACE on the drive where you install
exchange.
200MB of free disk space on
system drive.

10. SERVICES REQUIRED
• World Wide Web Publishing Service(WWW)
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
• ASP. net
• Active Directory Services
• DNS Service

11. FEATURES OF EXCHANGE 2003
• Deployment tools
• Integrated with Active Directory Services
• Integrated with IIS
• Exchange Clients
• Multiple Public Folders
• Stores and Storage Groups
• Routing Groups Connectors
• Mailbox recovery center
• Recovery storage group
• Enhanced Security

12. RECIPIENTS
• Mailbox-enabled users: User Account in AD that has
Mail-Enabled and associated mailbox with Exchange
Organization.
• Mail-enabled users: User account in AD that has Mail-
Enabled, but does not have a mailbox in Exchange
Organization.
• Mail-enable Group: This is a Distribution Group which
contains users and Groups as a members.
• Mail-enable Public Folder : Which Contain mailbox in
the Exchange Database.

13. EXCHANGE 2003 CLIENTS
• Outlook Web Access
• Outlook Express
• Microsoft Outlook

14. HOW EXCHANGE WORKS?

16. STORE
STORE
STORE
MAILBOX
MAILBOX PUBLIC FOLDER
PUBLIC FOLDER
STORE
STORE STORE
STORE
• Store is the database which contains the mailboxes and the
recipient information.
• The database files associated with mailbox store are
PRIV1.EDB and PRIV1.STM

17. STORAGE GROUP
• Storage group is a logical grouping of stores
that share the same set of transaction log
files.
• You can create up to four storage groups per
server and each storage group can have up to
five stores.
• The default storage group created on each
server is “First Storage Group”.

18. PUBLIC FOLDERS
• Public Folders provides the centralized storage
about any type of data that is meant to be
accessed by multiple users in an organization.
• It can also be used for storage of documents,
administrative messages and other applications.
• The database files associated with public folder
store are PUB1.EDB and PUB1.STM.

19. First Organization
SYS-1
First Storage Third Storage
Group Group
Second Storage
Public Folder Store
Accounts
Mailbox Store
Sales
Group Fourth Storage
Marketing
Group
Accounts
Finance
Sales
HR
Marketing

20. BACKUP
BACKUP
CLIENT SIDE SERVER SIDE
USERS ADMINISTRATOR /
BACKUP OPERATOR
OUTLOOK EXPRESS
AND SERVER
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK STORE
MAILS MAILS

21. Connectors
• It is a logical component that enables
information flow between two systems.
• Connectors supports Message Transfers,
Directory Synchronization between
Exchange servers and other Messaging
Systems

22. ROUTING GROUPS
• A Routing Group is a collection of
exchange servers that have full-time reliable
connections between each and every server.
• In a routing group, all servers communicate
and transfer messages directly to one
another.
• Communication between routing groups can
be made possible using connectors.

23. TYPES OF CONNECTORS
• ROUTING GROUP CONNECTOR(RGC)
• SMTP CONNECTOR
• X.400 CONNECTOR
• ACTIVE DIRECTORY CONNECTORS

24. Communication in and between routing groups
Communication in and between routing groups

25. Exchange front-end and back-end server
Exchange front-end and back-end server
architecture
architecture

26. Features of Exchange-2007
• Management tool is Exchange Management
console
• Compatible on 64 bit OS
• RE-written OWA with browsable GAL
• Restore database to any server
• Message routing based on AD Site
• Storage capacity in STD-5stores Each is 75GB
ENT-50stores unlimited database
• Unified messaging
• Transport rules
• No in place upgradation