Facilitated Exchange is an administration in the broadcast communications industry whereby a supplier makes a Microsoft email box and space accessible on a server so its customers can have their information on the server. The supplier deals with the facilitated information of its customers on the server. Customers can get to their messages, address book, errand administration and records from better places and through different media. The messages are directed to a workstation or cell phone through push innovation.

Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server created by Microsoft. It runs only on Windows Server working frameworks. The principal adaptation of Exchange Server to be distributed by Microsoft was Exchange Server 4.0. Trade at first utilized the X.400 index benefit however changed to Active Directory later. Adaptations 4.0 and 5.0 came packaged with an email customer called Microsoft Exchange Client. It was suspended for Microsoft Outlook.

Exchange Server is licensed both in the forms of on-premises software and software as a service. In the on-premises form, customers purchase client access licenses (CALs). In the software as a service form, Microsoft receives a monthly service fee instead (see Microsoft Office 365).