Use of Exchange server and its relation to EDB file
In today’s digital age, the world has come closer due to revolution in technology and communication. We have access to emails, messages and information with the click of a button and it is easier to respond back to contacts, friends and acquaintances than ever before. Email communication typically works on the concept of data transfer through a mail server and one such service is Exchange server. Microsoft Exchange is an enterprise-level email and calendaring service used by organizations, corporations and other industrial sectors worldwide for sending and receiving emails, storing data, contact information, files, folders, tasks, events and so on. Exchange server works on Windows server environments and different versions of it have been released over the years starting from v5 to the latest Exchange 2019. The transaction logs files and the database file (EDB) are required for the proper functioning of the server.
What is an EDB file?
An .EDB file format is a database file created by Microsoft Exchange server and is also known as Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) that stores emails and public folders in the form of a B-tree structure. In Exchange server 2000 and 2003 the database files are commonly referred to as priv1.edb and pub1.edb. In Exchange server 2007 and 2010, the priv1.edb was replaced with the mailbox database.edb and from Exchange server 2013 onwards, all the mail data is stored in a single database file (.edb).