Overview
What is Microsoft Exchange?
Microsoft Exchange is a secure email / messaging gateway with file archiving and encryption / data loss capability, available as a hosted service (Exchange Online) or installed (Exchange Server).
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Excellent integrated system for all Microsoft apps
Transparent, effective, secure on premise mailing solutions
MS Exchange is the on-prem standard for Corporate Email Servers.
Microsoft Exchange Server A Great Tool To Manage Your Corporate Emails From A Central Point
Our organization uses Microsoft Exchange for communication
An excellent tool for maintaining electronic documents/information
Great enterprise product from Microsoft
Your mailbox organized as easy as you want.
Reliable software
Microsoft Exchange- Old School and Reliable
An overview of Microsoft Exchange
If you use Windows OS or Microsoft Apps, you should be using Microsoft Exchange
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What is Microsoft Exchange?
Microsoft Exchange is a secure email / messaging gateway with file archiving and encryption / data loss capability, available as a hosted service (Exchange Online) or installed (Exchange Server).
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Features
Secure Email Gateway
Secure email gateway software prevents the transmission of emails that contravene company policy or contain malware, phishing attacks, spam or other unwanted emails
- 8.1Anti-malware(64) Ratings
Anti-malware is a type of software program designed to prevent, detect and remove malicious software
- 7.9Customizability(76) Ratings
Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities
- 8.6Data Loss Protection(66) Ratings
A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.
- 7.9Threat Detection(65) Ratings
Threat protection defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.
- 7.4Sandboxing(45) Ratings
Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs providing an extra layer of security
- 8.3End-to-End Encryption(65) Ratings
In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it
- 8.4Management Tools(78) Ratings
Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.
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(1-18 of 18)Excellent integrated system for all Microsoft apps
- robust uptime for all apps including outlook one drive with email protection filtering and anti- spam subscriptions
- integration with Mac and Linux can be improved
Outside the production environment we use Microsoft Exchange everyday. Its email functionality with integrated calendar and Teams or Webex meeting scheduling add-in's and calender updates whenever there is a meeting prior to be more productive. Great integration features.
An overview of Microsoft Exchange
- Mailbox management
- Traceability of incoming or outgoing mail
- Malicious domain blocking
- Updates or patches are a bit difficult
Collaboration starts with Exchange.
- As we have a large user base of 11,000 users we use MailTips to avoid people getting confused with people with similar names in the organization.
- The integration between Teams Meeting and Resource booking is generally very good. The Scheduling Assistance makes it easy to scan calendars and find free periods to provisionally scheduled events.
- Marking yourself as Out of the Office and busy is easy, as is sharing your calendar within the team/organization or individuals.
- Voicemail integration and the ability to receive missed chats in your inbox are highly used and useful.
- Exchange Online has a limitation of only being able to send a message to 500 recipients within a 24-hour period. Bulk emails may therefore require batching.
- Initially, provisioning users can take a little while due to mailboxes being created and policies applied. It would be advisable to give a least 24 hours.
- PowerShell skills are recommended to perform bulk administrative operations. They may be slow and tedious from the Administrative Console.
Review
- User management is simple. Creating, deleting, and moving mailboxes and distribution lists is simple.
- The Active Directory integration is excellent. Once again, this is the best of the best.
- Mobile device integration is possible. Integration with Microsoft Outlook is quick, easy, and effective.
- Troubleshooting problems can be difficult. Even for seasoned Exchange Admins, some of the issues that arise are not particularly intuitive.
- Exchange cost is costly, both in terms of hardware and, more importantly, in terms of software.
- It's not something you want a novice to set up or manage. You'll need administrators who are familiar with Microsoft Exchange.
Microsoft Exchange - The right choice
- Ease of management
- Active Directory Integration
- Great security features
- Easy mailbox management
- User comfort and familiarity are unmatched
- Would love to be able to shrink database size.
- Better built in spam filtering capabilities.
A key product in the powerful Microsoft suite
- Easy Integration with Microsoft products
- Reliable Email Service
- Great mobile and desktop app support
- Integration with newer Microsoft products like Teams could be less buggy
- More support integrating with non-Microsoft products
- Feature synchronization with overlapping Microsoft products like Teams (e.g. calendar)
- Ease of Mailbox Management
- Ease of managing all Shared mailboxes and Distribution list
- Great to to manage Exchange Global Rules and Alerts
- Page Load times
Microsoft is the Gold Standard for a Secure and stable Corporate Email Server Infrastructure.
- [Microsoft] Exchange is the gold standard for Corporate email. It is flawless in maintaining and delivering email to all of our users. It has been around so long the thing it does the best is just work. Most of the flaws and bugs are already out of the system.
- The GUI management tools for MS Exchange, whether Online or on-premise, are fairly well documented and for the most part fairly easy to use.
- [Microsoft] Exchange gives you the option to have an all in one box solution. Its not recommended but for smaller shops its a nice alternative to a more extensive setup that requires multiple servers.
- If sized correctly, MS Exchanges is fine tuned out of the box to be fairly quick and responsive as to email delivery.
- [Microsoft] Exchange is best used with MS's Outlook Email client. Trying to use it with third party options, including mobile possibilities, limits some of the capability a use may have.
- If an on-premise [Microsoft] Exchange server has an issue and data corruption takes place, the method in which MS uses mail logging to restore a system can be overly complicated and take an extensive amount of time.
- If the admin need you have is not included in the Graphic interface one has to move to using Powershell to get some basic tasks done. This is a bit cumbersome for part time Exchange admins.
- Setting up Exchange to be fault tolerant can be a cumbersome process.
Microsoft Exchange on Premise
- Reliable platform for email
- secure email system
- able to serve thousands of users with minimal infrastructure resources
- Provide gui admin functions that mirror powershell commands
Exchange Overview
- Now that it has hybrid flexibility it can be used for many different needs.
- Exchange still has the easiest interface in the business for configuration.
- It allows you to manage large amounts of users with relative ease.
- It can still tend to be pretty resource intensive.
- The connection of the hybrid setup and migration could be a little clearer.
Microsoft Exchange Gets the Job Done
- Microsoft Exchange offers a Desktop Client called Outlook to manage emails, calendars & contacts
- Microsoft Exchange offers a feature to have staff's mailboxes, calendars & contacts shared when given permission to rest of the team
- Microsoft Exchange offers a Public Folder mailbox location for the entire office team to access
- Microsoft Exchange should offer an option to spam/filter out junk emails
- Microsoft Exchange is currently missing a shared Calendar feature that will allow for reminder notifications
- Microsoft Exchange should provide an option for the office team to fill out group surveys or event sign ups
Exchange! Not for the faint of heart
- Active sync
- Group dist list creation
- Manage permissions
- Manage space
- Mail relays could be easier to navigate to.
- Easier to create groups
- One touch technology could be better.
- Public folders are still supported and allow for effective handling of incoming requests.
- Department level calendars allow for excellent coordination of schedules.
- Better integration with cloud based mail would be welcome.
- Native deduplication for mail databases would be a useful feature.
Microsoft Exchange is a powerful email software
- Easy user management.
- Unlimited possibilities with Exchange Shell.
- Failover possibility.
- You can't use Exchange without Active Directory.
- Message tracking is not that easy.
- Installing updates can cause some problems.
Some settings can only be done in the Exchange Shell, so you need a little bit know how in Powershell.
Microsoft Exchange - "Best of the Best" Mail Server
- Microsoft Exchange offers the best integration with Active Directory.
- Microsoft Exchange offers a great web management interface for administrators.
- Microsoft Exchange web services provide key functionality on how we integrate emails into ACD workgroup queues for customer support purposes.
- Microsoft Exchange could use more canned mail filtering tools to block spam.
- Microsoft Exchange should include it's own quarantine solution.
- Microsoft Exchange requires external recipients to become Exchange mail contacts before you can add those recipients to a distribution group.
- E-Mail: The primary function of Exchange, I'd argue, and it does it well right out of the box. There are a thousand ways to customize the way e-mail works - mail flow, rules for types of connections, group or shared boxes - but even with a minimal, almost default setup, e-mail works perfectly.
- Shared Resources: Shared calendars, public folders, and rooms are a few of the resources you can add to Exchange for tracking. We prefer shard mailboxes rather than public folders in most cases, but Exchange supports both, which gives it some versatility.
- Active Directory Integration: If you run Active Directory, Exchange is very easy to manage. Automatic rules can be set up for new users, group emails can be managed within AD instead of logging into Exchange, &c. And it means only one password.
- Mobile Access: Users can access their email on their phones or via the web, which is especially useful for employees who travel. But even internally, it means users don't need an additional application to use most of Exchange's feature (although Outlook is extremely useful, too).
- No Management App: Microsoft decided to most administration of Exchange to a web portal instead of a separate application like older editions. This does allow an admin to log in from anywhere, but it's not as clean as a dedicated app. For example, if a browser update breaks compatibility, you have to wait for a fix, whereas a native app would just work regardless of browser functionality.
- Less GUI/More Powershell: There are a handful of things you cannot manage in the management web portal. They require Powershell commands. Powershell is useful in many cases, but usually for advanced features, not regular, every day type things like running reports.
- Cost: Exchange is not an inexpensive product, and with the licensing model, the more users you have, the more expensive it becomes.
The only scenario I can really think of where Exchange would be inappropriate would be a sole proprietor or two- to three-person small business, where maybe personal e-mails would be acceptable. Or, as I mentioned before, some place where an on-site server may make less sense, so a hosted solution like Office 365 would be better (perhaps you have poor Internet service).
- Resource Scheduling
- Publishing Availability
- Active Directory Integration
- User Experience in Web Access Client
- User Mailbox Management
- Message Recall
Microsoft Exchange - The Industry Standard for a Reason
- Integration with mobile devices. It's fast, simple, and effective
- Integration with Microsoft Outlook. There's no better product in the business if you use Microsoft Office, period.
- Simple user management. It's easy to create, delete, and move mailboxes & distribution lists.
- Excellent active directory integration. Again, best of breed here.
- Cost. Exchange is expensive, both in terms of hardware costs and especially software costs.
- Complexity. It is not something that you have a novice setup or administer. You need admins trained in Microsoft Exchange.
- Problems can be difficult to troubleshoot. Some problems that pop up are not especially intuitive, even for seasoned Exchange Admins.
It may be cost prohibitive for on-premise Exchange for many small businesses. Office 365 is a hosted Exchange option that is a good alternative for small businesses that still want the power of Exchange, but cannot afford the costs of installing and maintaining an on-premise instance of Exchange.