Intro-MS Exchange servers from wikipedia
MS EXCHANGE SERVER is a server side of a client-server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the MS server line of server products and is used by enterprises using MS infrastructure solutions. Exchange's major features consist of electronic mail, calendering, contacts and tasks ; support for mobile and we-based access to information; and support for data storage . HISTORY Planning the migration from MS' internal "legacy XENIX-based messaging system" to Exchange Server environment began in April 1993, and by January 1995 some 500 users were running on Exchange Server Beta1. by April 1996 32,000 users were migrated to that environment. Exchange server 4.0 - released on June 11, 1996 including ms mail, new x.400-based client server mail system with a single database store supporting x.500 directory services that became Active Directory service, an LDAP-compliant directory server. Active Directory was integrated into windows 20...