Most organizations today use products and technologies from multiple vendors, creating heterogeneous computing environments. This approach can make it difficult to maximize the return on your IT investments while also realizing the value of new technologies. Technology interoperability—the ability to communicate and exchange data using technologies from different vendors—is an important factor to consider as you look for ways that IT can contribute more to your business.
Microsoft Unified Communications - Exchange Server 2007 Interoperability Overview Whitepaper
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2. Interoperability Vendor Alliance (IVA): A community of software and hardware vendors whose goal is to improve interoperability with Microsoft products and systems.
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6. Initiate and handle sessions involving multimedia elements like video, voice, IM, virtual reality, and animation. SIP is one of the main protocols used for VoIP and is used only for setting up and tearing down video and voice calls. This protocol helps clients like IP gateways or IP-PBXs to interoperate with Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging via SIP servers.
9. Using SOAP messages, Exchange Server 2007 communicates with computer and Web service client applications. The Exchange Web services implement SOAP to provide information on data, its versioning and the operation to be performed on that data, to the messaging client application.
11. This protocol provides a standard messaging format that makes it possible to exchange information between client applications and Exchange Server 2007.
14. MAPI provides access to items and folders within public and private databases, as well as the properties stored along with each item. Developers can create clients that use MAPI and can interoperate with Exchange Server 2007. For more technical details on MAPI, visit MAPI Evaluation Criteria.
17. Various clients use the IMAP4 protocol to access and manipulate messaging data on a server. Exchange Server 2007 supports IMAP4 and allows IMAP4-based e-mail clients to access mailbox data.
19. POP3 is another protocol used by clients to store on and retrieve messages from the server. Exchange Server 2007 allows POP3 e-mail clients to access mailbox data.
30. Port25 is the blog space of open source community at Microsoft to interact with customers and other open source industry people. It includes conversations on Linux, Microsoft Windows®, and open source interoperability.