Exchange 2000 Server Web Store

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server is the first to use the Web Store and serves as the basis for both public and private information stores. The Web Store fully supports MAPI and can contain one or more public folder databases.

The Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server private store is the default storage location for a mailbox, which can contain messages, appointments, contacts, and other Microsoft® Outlook® folders and items. You can specify which database stores the data files for a private store. However, this feature is transparent to end-users as well as developers because each private store is unique, using the virtual root of Exchange; for example, http://myServer/Exchange/User1/Inbox.

The private store for an individual Exchange mailbox cannot exist on multiple databases. This constraint has the benefit of allowing a client application to access a mailbox without having to ascertain the location where the data is physically stored.

In Exchange 2000 Server, you can create multiple public folder trees instead of being restricted to one tree having “All Public Folders” as the root. Also, each tree is associated with its own public folder store.