Chapter 15 -- Overview of Exchange Clients

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Chapter 15

Up to this point, we have focused primarily on the server aspect of the Exchange environment, because this book is primarily about administering Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. However, a server does not operate in a void; clients must connect to it to complete the picture.

This is the first of three chapters that examine the deployment of clients in an Exchange organization. This chapter introduces you to the main types of clients that you may find in your Exchange environment:

• Microsoft Outlook 2000
• Microsoft Outlook Express
• Microsoft Outlook Web Access
• Exchange Client
• Microsoft Schedule+
• Standard Internet mail clients
• UNIX clients
• Macintosh clients

Each of these can be used as a client in an Exchange organization. Because the focus of this book is Exchange 2000 Server, and because each of these clients has a wide range of functionality and features, we do not describe each client in depth. Instead, this chapter simply introduces the major types of Exchange client software. Chapter 16 covers the Outlook 2000 client in detail.