Exchange Server 2003 has advanced in security, scalability, and reliability in both lowering the costs of managing an Exchange Server based messaging and collaboration e-mail services.

Exchange 2000 Server enabled an initial wave of server consolidation through more intelligent use of server and storage resources. Now Exchange Server 2003 initiates a second wave of server consolidation based on:

Outlook 2003 now features a cached mode. Because Outlook 2003 operates primarily on its own cached copy of a user's mailbox, fewer requests are made to the server, thereby reducing the server load per user and enabling more users to be supported per server.

Many important security improvements have been made, some examples are:

• VSAPI, the virus-scanning API, has been improved to give administrators more deployment options. New junk e-mail message protection capabilities, including support for connection filtering based on real-time block lists, inbound recipient filtering, and beacon-blocking provide greater protection from unsolicited messages. In addition, VSAPI doesn't just run on mail servers anymore. Spam or antivirus software can now run on Exchange Server gateway and bridgehead servers as well.

• By adding Windows Server 2003, remote procedure calls (RPC) over HTTPS tunneling securely connect Outlook 2003 clients with Exchange Server 2003 without the need for a VPN.

• Server-side filtering with the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Intelligent Message Filter, designed to combat the influx of unsolicited junk e-mail messages, also known as spam or junk e-mail messages. The Exchange Server Intelligent Message Filter is installed on the Exchange Server 2003 gateway servers to filter incoming Internet e-mail messages before they are sent to a user's Inbox.

Ask your CSW Account Manager how we can streamline and protect your e-mail solution today!