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Exchange 2003 Architecture
1.1 Introduction
For the overall purpose of this book and to better explain the concepts
related to Exchange 2003 scalability, this chapter reviews the Exchange
2003 architecture. It identifies the main components and reveals the most
critical components used in high-end environments as well as scale-up and
scale-out models (many transactions or users per server and many servers in
a single Exchange 2003 organization).
Microsoft Exchange 2003 embodies many features of both Microsoft
Exchange 5.5 and Microsoft Commercial Internet Services (MCIS): it is a
solid database engine for messaging and collaboration information, coupled ...