Microsoft Exchange Server (MXS)

Techopedia explains Microsoft Exchange Server (MXS)

During the 1990s, email evolved into a business-critical application, leading to the development of enterprise solutions with high availability/reliability, better features and more connectivity options. In June 1996, MXS 4.0 was publicly released. The 2010 version of MXS provides database replication, anti-spam defenses, resource management and a variety of security features.

MXS has the following features:

• Outlook Web App: Helps users to access voice mail, email, SMS texts, instant messaging and much more, using all the available standard browsers.
• Exchange ActiveSync: Mobile users are able to access a universal inbox with voice mail, email, instant message chats and copyrighted messages on their smartphones.
• Retention, Discovery and Email Archiving: Help reduce expenditures and simplify the maintenance of business communications processes.
• Backup and Disaster Recovery: MXS features a unified solution for disaster recovery and backup by offering an automatic, quick, database-level recovery from server, database and network failures.
• Deployment Flexibility: MXS can be deployed in the cloud, on premises or both.
• Sensitive Content Monitoring: MXS tools can be used to keep track of sensitive contents in email and prevent unintentional and illegal distribution of these contents.
• Voicemail: MXS provides users with single inbox access to email and voice mail; both these systems can be managed from a single platform.
• Advanced Protection: Employs several integrated encryption and anti-spam technologies along with sophisticated anti-virus solutions.