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Exchange uses a single building block architecture that provides email services
for deployments of all sizes, from small organizations to the largest multi-
Version-aware communications.
Isolated failures.
following diagram.
Mailbox servers
route mail. For more information, see Mail flow and the transport
pipeline
topic.
features to mailboxes.
Note
Unified Messaging is not available in Exchange 2019.
Edge Transport servers handle all external mail flow for the
Exchange organization.
organization.
servers.
The high availability features in Exchange Server are described in the following
sections.
availability and site resilience framework that's built into Exchange Server. A
DAG is a group of Mailbox servers that host a set of databases and provides
failures. And DAGs in Exchange 2016 or later have been improved compared
to Exchange 2013. For more information about DAGs, see Database availability
groups.
The Client Access services on Exchange Mailbox servers are responsible for
accepting all forms of client connections. The Client Access (frontend) services
server (the local server or a remote Mailbox server that holds the active copy
of the user's mailbox). Clients don't directly connect to the backend services.
proxy the request to the backend services on the destination Mailbox server.
For example, if the client connected using HTTP, the Mailbox server uses HTTP
to proxy the request to the destination Mailbox server (secured via SSL using a
self-signed certificate). If the client used IMAP or POP, then the protocol that's
connections. Instead of proxying the request, the Mailbox server redirects the
request to the Mailbox server that holds the active copy of the user's mailbox.
Telephony devices are required to establish their SIP and RTP sessions directly
Mailbox server.
Note
install the Client Access server role and the Mailbox server role on
role, and the Client Access server role isn't available as a separate
servers.
the web.
such as the ability to enable or disable MAPI over HTTP per user,
and whether to advertise it to external clients. For more