MS Exchange Server - Is this included with Windows, or is it a standalone product?

[Creig]

I just finished reformatting a computer at a local non-profit organization that had royally crashed. They were running Win95B and using Microsoft Exchange to connect to their national office to collect e-mail.
HOWEVER, now that 95 is back on, I'm looking around to try and find MS Exchange, and the only one I can find is version 5.5 which is for NT only. I believe they were originally running 5.0 on their 95 machine.

Is MS Exchange included with Windows, is it downloadable, or am I going to have to tell them they need their national office to send an install disc to their office. I hope somebody can give me an answer here 'cause they've been without e-mail for a week now and are starting to get a little tense.

Thanks!

 

[SufferinSuccotash]

It is a separate product, you'll need the install disc. Actually I didn't even know you could get Exchange Server to run on non-NT. Learn something new every day, I guess.

 

[Olorin]

I assume this computer was running an Exchange client and that it's the national office that's running Exchange Server? There's several things that can act as an Exchange client; MS Outlook is the most common, but there is also the built-in Win95 Windows Messaging or the Exchange client that comes on the Exchange Server disks. If they were using a stand alone client you can try the one off the Win95 disc - I don't remember Win95 too well any more, but in Add/Remove Programs / Windows Setup there should be an Exhange or Windows Messaging checkbox, that's the client. I don't know what version it is, but it should work.

 

[Creig]

Well, after a LOT of digging around, it turns out that MS Exchange is included ONLY on Win95A. Starting with Win95B and above, it is called Windows Messaging (thanks for the tip Olorin!). Microsoft renamed it after Win95A to avoid having people getting it confused with their standalone Exchange program. (Can't imagine why two products with the same name would confuse people in the first place. Way to go MS)

And it turns out that the Win95B CD-Rom in their office wasn't the original one their computer came with. The installation directions they have to connect to their national office was written for Exchange. So now I'm stuck trying to find Win95A.

The saga continues.