October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
46h 16m
English
The mailbox server role is the central role in an Exchange topology, as it is the server that stores the actual mailboxes of the user. Subsequently, mailbox servers are often the most critical for an organization, and are given the most attention.
With the Enterprise version of Exchange, a mailbox server can hold anywhere from 1 to 100 databases on it. Each of the databases are theoretically unlimited in size, although it is wise to keep an individual database limited to 100GB or less for performance and recovery scenarios.
In large organizations, a single server or a set of servers is often dedicated to individual server roles. That said, a single server can also be assigned other roles, such as the ...
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