Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Exchange 2010 Server Roles

Like Exchange Server 2007, we have the same 5 server roles architecture in Exchange Server 2010. Below give the short description of Server roles in Exchange Server 2010.

Mailbox Server: This server hosts mailboxes and public folder databases. Any client connection to access mailboxes comes through CAS server only and Public Folder MAPI access with directly connect to Mailbox Server.

Client Access Server: This is the server that hosts the client protocols responsible to provide access to (POP3), (IMAP4), (HTTPS), Outlook Anywhere, Availability service, and Autodiscover service.

Hub Transport Server: This is the mail routing server that routes mail within the Exchange organization. This server role can also be used as routing server to route emails to external organization.

Unified Messaging Server: This is the server that connects a Private Branch exchange (PBX) system to Exchange 2010. Provides a universal inbox for emails, voice mail and fax messages

Edge Transport Server: This is the mail routing server that typically sits at the perimeter of the topology and routes mail in to and out of the Exchange organization. By default Anti-spam agents are installed and it supports Transport Rule and Address Rewriting.

It’s a short note on server roles in Exchange Server 2010. We will discuss about those server roles functionality in later topics.

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