Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Performance Improvements in Exchange 2003

There are several additions to Exchange 2003 that help organizations better improve the performance of their Exchange servers. Exchange 2003 includes improvements such as better memory allocation and management through technologies that cache distribution lists and Global Catalog information as well as message notification suppression.

Performance improvements not only decrease the overhead of a server, enabling an organization to grow its organization, but performance improvements also enable an organization to minimize the number of servers needed in its environment. If an organization with five Exchange servers can decrease performance demands by 20%, the organization can eliminate an entire server ...