EDV-Solutions is your IT service provider from Wiener Neustadt for professional Exchange Server solutions. With the new Exchange Server 2025 Subscription Edition (SE), Microsoft offers a powerful, secure, and future-proof platform for email communication in companies.
Exchange SE is the latest version of the Microsoft Exchange Server family – now available on a subscription basis and with continuous updates in accordance with the Modern Lifecycle Policy. Businesses benefit from greater security, improved performance, and simplified administration.
The initially simple email system has evolved into a comprehensive groupware solution. In the 2003 version, server-side filtering was implemented for the first time with the Intelligent Message Filter (IMF), which makes it possible to filter out unwanted emails. Since the 2013 version, rudimentary antivirus software has also been included.
The functionality includes:
Emails Appointments/calendar Tasks Contacts/addresses Notes Mobile email access via ActiveSync technology Email retrieval via POP3/IMAP4, Email delivery via SMTP Global address book Certificate-based authentication Support for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Intelligent anti-spam filter: SmartScreen filter technology, Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) Global accept and reject list (white list/black list) Anti-virus filtering or anti-virus API, which can be connected to third-party anti-virus software Support for the Sender ID email authentication protocol Outlook Web App, web access to server functions Mixed operation with an Office 365 Exchange Online service Data loss prevention
Data is generally divided into personal and user-dependent data on the one hand, and shared data on the other, such as public folders, which enable group work.
Microsoft Outlook is usually used as the front-end application.
Version history Version Year 4.0 1996 5.0 1997 5.5 1998 2000 (6.0) 2000 2003 (6.5) 2003 2007 (8.x) 2006 2010 (14.x) 2009 2013 (15.0) 2012 2016 (15.1) 2019 2015 2018
Microsoft originally offered the MS Mail mail system (up to and including version 3.5), but this was no longer able to meet the requirements of larger environments. It was only possible to create a maximum of 500 mailboxes on one server, and storing the data in a file tree proved to be increasingly problematic as the volume of mail grew, due to the amount of data that had to be managed. Exchange itself was developed from scratch. To suggest a similarity to Microsoft Mail and encourage customers to switch to Exchange, the first Exchange Server was given the version number 4.0. From the outset, secure data processing (relational database with 2-phase commit transactions) and scalability played a particularly important role in the development. The Jet Engine (Jet Blue) has been the basis since the beginning and was later also used for products such as Active Directory and the Kerberos Distribution Server.
