About the Fax Service
The fax service is a Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI)-compliant system service that allows users on a network to send and receive faxes from their desktop applications. The service is available on computers that are running Windows 2000 and later. The fax service provides the following features:
- Transmitting faxes
- Receiving faxes
- Flexible routing of inbound faxes
- Outbound routing
- Outgoing fax priorities
- Archiving sent and received faxes
- Server and device configuration management
- Client use of server devices for sending and receiving faxes
- Event logging
- Activity logging
- Delivery receipts
- Security permissions
This section includes the following topics:
- What's New
- Fax Service Architecture Overview
- About Sending a Fax
- About the Fax Application Programming Interfaces
- About the Fax Service Extended COM API
- Fax Service Provider and Routing Extension Hosting and Security
- About the Fax Service Provider API
- About the Fax Routing Extension API
- About the Fax Extension Configuration API