What' s new in Exchange Server 2013?

Intro:

- Exchange Server 2013 is the eightth major release of the product.

- It is about 70% to 80% the same as exchange server 2007 and 2010; however the remaining is drastically different and requires some relearning of the changes.

What is same between Exchange Server 2003/2007 and 2013?
- The core infrastructure of 2013 is same as 2007 and 2010.

- Microsoft continues to use Jet EDB database as the main database store.

- Exchange server 2013 still has the concept of a Mailbox server where EDBs are stored and user mailbox data resides.

- Exchange server can have multiple Exchange databases running on the same system and multiple Exchange servers can reside in an Environment for both scalability as well as redundancy.

- Users can use the Microsoft Outlook client and can access Exchange using OWA.

- Still user VSS backup application programming interface (API)

- Nothing new or different from end user point

- does not require upgrade to outlook 2013 client

What is missing in Exchange Server 2013 that was in previous versions?

- EMC is totally GONE.

- No more GUI based administration

- Instead Exchange Control Panel (ECP) from Exchange server 2010 has been expanded into new Exchange Administration Center (EAC).

- The EAC allows the administrator a web-based access to everything the administrator used EMC before.

- Concept of Storage group has been removed

- The concept of administrative groups and routing groups has been completely removed. The administration is now completely consolidated into an enterprise view of users and mailboxes.

- Routing group has been removed. It now uses sites from AD Sites an Services to determine organizational sites and the routing message communicates to those.

- When installing Exchange Server 2013, public folders are not created at all. You need to manually add public folders to a Mailbox server and extend public folder from server system.

Version compatibility:
Exchange server 2013 only works with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows server 2012.