Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Licence

Description

On the server side of things, there are two versions: Exchange Server 2016 Standard and Exchange Server 2016 Enterprise. The biggest distinction between Server Standard and Server Enterprise is the number of mailbox databases you can host. Here is how Microsoft distinguishes between the two … Standard: “designed for the mailbox needs of small to midsize organizations. Also appropriate for non-mailbox roles in a larger Exchange deployment. This edition supports 1 to 5 mailbox databases.” Enterprise: “designed for larger organizations that may require a greater number of mailbox databases. This edition supports 1 to 100 mailbox databases.” Theoretically, you could host all your employees’ email in a single database, but that will affect performance and your whole company will be impacted if that database goes down. Furthermore, smaller databases are easier to repair than larger ones. So, spreading mailboxes across multiple databases will improve performance, minimize the impact of a failed database, and provide faster recovery time. Subsequently, more is better