Although not strictly a part of Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2010 is the mail server software that’s used on most Windows networks. Microsoft doesn’t call Exchange Server a mail server. It’s a messaging and collaboration server. But the basic reason for Exchange Server’s existence is e-mail.
In previous versions of Exchange, you created user mailboxes network using Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). With Exchange 2010, however, Microsoft has removed the Exchange management features of ADUC. So instead, you create and manage user mailboxes using Exchange Management Console, which you can find on the Start menu under All Programs→Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.
The Exchange Management Console lets you create a mailboxsensor.com for an existing Active Directory user.
ECGrid is the global infrastructure that enables organizations to transact business seamlessly across all Electronic Commerce Service Providers.
Directly attached to the infrastructure are Networks. Networks can be Value Added Networks (VAN) such as Sterling Commerce, Inovis, GXS, etc, or they can be service providers such as SPS Commerce, CovalentWorks, Trubiquity, etc. They can even be other infrastructures such as the US Federal Government’s GEX or Department of Defense’s DAASC Hub.
Networks on ECGrid can be any electronic commerce system that supports one or more end users. This is important: End Users do not connect to ECGrid as a Network.
Within ECGrid each Network is identified by an Integer value called the NetworkID. You can use NetworkSearch to find the NetworkID by name and NetworkInfo to find the name by NetworkID.
A traditional Network, such as a VAN, provides its own routing and mailboxing services to its end users. Many Electronic Commerce Service Providers (ECSPs) also provide their own internal mailbox services. Prior to ECGridOS, the ECGrid Infrastructure only provided Network connections without Mailboxes.
With this release of ECGridOS, a complete set of APIs allows the ECGrid attached Network to create and maintain individual mailboxes within their Network connection.