What Is Microsoft Exchange?

Exchange is Microsoft’s groupware server, originally developed for corporate customers.

So, as a server program, how does this impact you?

Microsoft Outlook Manages All Kinds of Info, and It Stores It In Exchange

It used Microsoft’s ownActiveSync technology, and more recently the open Messaging utility Programming Interface (MAPI).

To find a link to your OWA site, if it exists, selectFiles>Account Settingsin Outlook.

Many people used OWA for mobile access to Exchange data before Outlook applications were readily available.

You can get the URL for Outlook Web Access from the Files Tab in Outlook

But Exchange is also the technology that powers cloud-based services that you, as a consumer, can access.