Small Business Server includes Microsoft Exchange Server so that the people in your company can send electronic mail (e-mail), track and store information in public folders, schedule meetings, and review mail from a remote location.
E-mail provides a way to communicate with people inside your company and with people on the Internet. You can exchange messages, send files, and provide links to Internet sites. Microsoft Outlook, a desktop information manager including e-mail, scheduling, and task management, is provided for your Microsoft® Windows® 95 and Windows NT Workstation users. You’ll use Microsoft Exchange Client from client computers running other systems, such as Windows for Workgroups or Apple Macintosh.
You and your users can track your schedule and set up meetings with other people by using the Outlook Calendar feature or Schedule+. You also can view other people’s schedules, create To Do lists, and set up automatic meeting reminders.
Microsoft Exchange provides public folders that are stored in a central location and visible to any e-mail user on your network. Many organizations use public folders to store information such as files, customer records, e-mail messages, and other information many people need to see. It’s easy to add information to a public folder by dragging and dropping files.
If you want to send e-mail to a lot of people, you don’t have to type in every individual name. By creating a distribution list, you can easily send a message to several people at once. Distribution lists can contain both individual e-mail addresses and other distribution lists.
With remote mail, users can work away from the office and still have access to their e-mail messages. Using a laptop or home computer with a Dial-Up Networking connection, you can view your messages, send new messages, and view public folders.
Users can create personal address books for convenient access to their most frequently used e-mail addresses and distribution lists. These address books can provide e-mail addresses, titles, and other business information.
Find out more about managing e-mail in Chapter 9, “Providing Electronic Mail and Scheduling.”