Glossary

Glossary of terms related to Microsoft Exchange and Mobile Messaging

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Handheld

Handheld is a synonym for smartphone, or a mobile phone that can sit in the palm of your hand and provide messaging and web services.

Hardware

The term Hardware refers to any physical computing device, or component of a device, needed to run a software program. For Microsoft Exchange services, hardware typically means the server computer, firewall, router, switches, power backup and data backup systems needed to maintain a reliable Microsoft Exchange service.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a 1996 federal law that covers many topics related to medical practice and personal health insurance. One of the major features of HIPAA is strong privacy protection that governs how health care providers must protect patient privacy and information. Medical practices must ensure that their communications and messaging systems have special features that comply with the act.

Hosted Exchange

Hosted Exchange refers to Microsoft Exchange Server software offered as a web service that is hosted on another company's hardware. In this arrangement, a customer pays a fee per month for each user but does not need to pay for server hardware, software licensing or bandwidth and is often more reliable and secure than the alternative, an in-house installation of MS Exchange.

Hosting

Hosting is a service providing a server computer in a remote data center that is used to run websites or other software services. The company with the facilities that the server sits in acts as the host for the server.

Hotsync

Hotsync is a generic term for a service that allows a user to synchronize information on a desktop computer messaging client such as Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Entourage. Microsoft has their own proprietary hotsync system called Activesync that allows users to synchronize their Exchange mail account with their desktop client and mobile device.