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Exchange Server 2013
Revamped with new technologies Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Exchange 2013 features decrease the time spent maintaining your messaging systems and allow users to increase productivity as they work together on teams and projects.
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Support a Multigenerational Workforce
Social integration and making it easier to find people is important to users. Smart Search learns from users' communication and collaboration behavior to enhance and prioritize search results in Exchange. Also, with Exchange 2013, users can merge contacts from multiple sources to provide a single view of a person, by linking contact information pulled from multiple locations.
Provide an Engaging Experience
Microsoft Outlook 2013 and Microsoft Outlook Web App have a fresh new look. Outlook Web App emphasizes a streamlined user interface that also supports the use of touch, enhancing the mobile device experience with Exchange.
Integrate with SharePoint and Lync
Exchange 2013 offers greater integration with Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft Lync 2013 through site mailboxes and In-Place eDiscovery. Together, these products offer a suite of features that make scenarios such as enterprise eDiscovery and collaboration using site mailboxes possible.
Help Meet Evolving Compliance Needs
Compliance and eDiscovery are challenging for many organizations. Exchange 2013 helps you find and search data not only in Exchange, but across your organization. With improved search and indexing, you can search across Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Windows file servers. In addition, data loss prevention (DLP) can help keep your organization safe from users mistakenly sending sensitive information to unauthorized people. DLP helps you identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data through deep content analysis.
Provide a Resilient Solution
Exchange 2013 builds upon the Exchange Server 2010 architecture and has been redesigned for simplicity of scale, hardware utilization, and failure isolation.
Component
Requirement
Notes
Processor
x64 architecture-based computer with Intel processor that supports Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as Intel EM64T)
AMD processor that supports the AMD64 platform
Intel Itanium IA64 processors not supported
See the "Operating system" section later in this topic for supported operating systems.
Memory
Varies depending on Exchange roles that are installed:
Mailbox 8GB minimumClient Access 4GB minimumMailbox and Client Access combined 8GB minimum
None.
Paging File Size
The page file size minimum and maximum must be set to physical RAM plus 10 MB
The recommended page file size also accounts for the memory that's needed to collect information if the operating system stops unexpectedly. On 64-bit operating systems, memory can be written as a dump file to the paging file. This file must reside on the boot volume of the server.
Disk Space
At least 30 GB on the drive on which you install Exchange
An additional 500 MB of available disk space for each Unified Messaging (UM) language pack that you plan to install
200 MB of available disk space on the system drive
A hard disk that stores the message queue database on with at least 500 MB of free space.
The minimum space requirements detailed here don't account for disk subsystem requirements for adequate performance.
Drive
DVD-ROM drive, local or network accessible
None.
Screen Resolution
1024 x 768 pixels or higher
None.
File Format
Disk partitions formatted as NTFS file systems, which applies to the following partitions:
System partition
Partitions that store Exchange binary files
Partitions containing transaction log files
Partitions containing database files
Partitions containing other Exchange files
None.
Note: software solutions specialist if you have questions regarding these requirements and/or about deploying Exchange 2013 in a virtualized environment.
Component
Requirement
Mailbox and Client Access Server Roles
One of the following:
Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter RTM or later
Management Tools
One of the following:
Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter RTM or later
64-bit edition of Windows 8
64-bit edition of Windows 7 with SP1
Note:
Windows Server 2008 R2 —Reinstall Windows Server and select the Full Installation option.Windows Server 2012 —Convert your Windows Server Core mode server to a full installation by running the following command.
Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra, Server-Gui-Shell -Restart
Exchange 2013 doesn't support being run on computers with the United States Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliant settings enabled. software solutions specialists .
Exchange 2013 supports the following minimum versions of Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Entourage for Mac:
Clients
Outlook 2013
Outlook 2010 SP1 with April 2012 Cumulative Update
Outlook 2007 SP3 with July 2012 Cumulative Update
Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition
Outlook for Mac 2011
Note:
The information above provides the minimum versions required for a client to connect to Exchange. We strongly recommend that you install the latest available service packs and updates available so that your users receive the best possible experience when connecting to Exchange.
Outlook clients earlier than Outlook 2007 are not supported. Email clients on Mac operating systems that require DAV, such as Entourage 2008 for Mac RTM and Entourage 2004, are not supported.
Outlook Web App supports several browsers on a variety of operating systems and devices.
If you have additional questions, please contact one of our software solutions specialists .
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Open Value
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Enterprise
Minimum purchase requirements
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Software Assurance
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