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Gateway Service

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The gateway service is the most important component of a gateway. The gateway service maps the addresses and does the conversion between the MAPI messages used by Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server and the message format of the foreign system.

Gateway services are usually implemented as Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server services, which are analogous to daemons on UNIX systems. By designing your gateway server application to run as a service of Windows 2000 Server, you can make it an extension of the computer running Windows 2000 Server. This provides the following benefits:

  • The gateway can start automatically when the computer starts.
  • The gateway can be controlled through the operating system instead of through a custom user interface (UI).
  • The gateway can run in its own security context.

A gateway running as a service of Windows 2000 Server has no UI of its own. However, you can use Windows 2000 Server components to provide information about the gateway for its users. You can use a Windows 2000 Event Viewer application log to provide event and diagnostic information, and you can use the Windows 2000 Performance Monitor to monitor gateway performance.

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