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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- Data Loss Protection (66)8.686%
- Management Tools (78)8.484%
- Threat Detection (65)7.979%
- Customizability (76)7.979%
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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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(1-25 of 37)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.
Microsoft Exchange Server A Great Tool To Manage Your Corporate Emails From A Central Point
- Strong community support for Microsoft group's Exchange product.
- Microsoft Exchange The product is very easy to install and deploy.
- Microsoft Exchange is user-friendly and options like send and receive connectors or mail flow are uncomplicated.
- In general, I think that supplier or business partner relations should be developed.
- Efforts should be continued to increase the internal and operational efficiency of the group.
- International Compliance and risk management should continue to be improved.
- Thanks to group e-mail, you don't require project stakeholders' contact details. Project managers may quickly give comments and information by e-mailing that group.
- It simplifies mailbox management.
- Favorite feature: calendar. This function shows which meeting rooms are vacant or full. Meetings are easy to organize.
- In grouped emails, you can't limit the list when you open it.
- Slow page loads. Needs work.
- Email synchronization can be sluggish, and there's no permanent solution.
- Supporting devices can be simply connected
- The product is Outlook-friendly
- Microsoft Exchange streamlines communication across Microsoft-based programs and devices
- It only works with Microsoft products. Google applications are more generic. Oracle Linux is better.
- Recent changes aren't trustworthy, and many email issues aren't fixable
- Real-time connectivity requires a server
Your mailbox organized as easy as you want.
- Ease of use.
- Clear interface.
- Easy integration between desktop and mobile devices.
- Wizard to migrate a mailbox from Exchange to Exchange Online keeping subfolders.
- Wizard configuring a Microsoft 365 mailbox in a mobile device.
- The Online version has not had the same options for customizing the interface as On-Premise.
Reliable software
- Email is accessed not downloaded or stored on the device
- Allows access to email whatever it is
- It allows us unlimited calendar storage
- Poor integration with traditional applications
A straightforward solution for the small office
- Email
- Calendar
- Archiving older emails
- Configuring mail apps on phones could be less hands on
- Emails
- Calendar appointments
- Disable new Outlook for Windows
- Manage Recipients
- Mobile Access for shared content
A robust and secure corporate email server.
- An in-built calendar to manage your daily work schedule. Let's you create events, invite a particular group of people, accept invitations, and remind you of your upcoming meetings and tasks.
- I also like the daily emails we get from Exchange that ask you to set aside time for yourself or your other hobbies to take a short break from monotonous work.
- The email categorization feature is pretty good, especially the sort/search filtering option to navigate through your emails, which can also go through your deleted emails.
- It has an excellent spam-filtering feature which greatly reduces the chance of malware and spam. I have hardly seen spam emails get through their filter. On the other hand, it also recognizes emails from external organizations that may be spam, but are important work emails.
- I wish there are more options in the email filters. For example, I have been unable to find a way to look for emails from a particular date without scrolling through all the emails containing particular keywords.
- Third-party application integration isn't very well developed. It could have been a great option to widen the scope of usage for Exchange.
- The UI is fine, but it could be a bit more robust and intuitive. Pop-ups and dialog boxes especially have poor design, which reduces the user experience.
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- 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.
A very professional tool for email management
- Rules
- Filter
- Search
- Tagging
- View additional mailbox in mobile device
- Mail Deliverability
- SMTP Server Reliability
- Support for Mobile devices
- Could have better spam filtering.
- Better Security.
- Be more modern, without going to the cloud.
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.
An old standard
- SMTP is reliable
- Ease of use
- Redundancy, reliability
- Logging
- Updates and security can be improved
- Migration can be difficult
- Backup and recovery can be difficult
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)
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
Can't imagine email without Exchange
- Email
- Web email access
- Mobile device email access
- Integration with other software
- Security
- Unified communications should still be supported
- Management interface
You'll Never Want to Exchange Microsoft!
- Easier communication within.
- Exceptional organization.
- HTML within email signatures.
- OneDrive integration.
Exchange on Premise good for companys with 75+ employees
- Calendaring between organization members, scheduling meetings with other in-house team members is super easy and allows you see their available times easily.
- Mobile device syncing, you can sync up an iPhone or android phone with your email account simply and always have your phone in sync with your desktop.
- Laptop on the go access. The latest versions of exchange, 2007 and up, allow you to sync a laptop with your exchange server and it will stay in sync with your inbox no matter where in the world you go, with activesync built into exchange. No need to reconfigure your inbox when youre inside or outside your corp network.
- Spam filtering and content rule creation. You can block unwanted emails right from the server with exchanges builtin spam filtering, or create your own rules right on the server to block unwanted non-spammers.
- Scalability - it can be difficult to scale up your server when you need more hard drive room. Virtualizing your Exchange server can help a little with this.
- Upgradeability across versions - it can be difficult to upgrade your Exchange server to the newest versions of Exchange, Mmicrosoft recommends you build a whole new server and migrate your mailboxes to the new server instead of doing an in-place upgrade of an existing server.
My Experience with MS Exchange Server
- MS Exchange is a very flexible and versatile collaboration tool. It's very easy to deploy and maintain once you have the necessary MS Exchange knowledge. Also there are many 3rd-party add-ons available which can enhance the capability of MS Exchange such as spam filters, antivirus software, etc.
- Since MS Exchange is such a vital tool in most organizations, there are many ways to make MS Exchange highly available. A number of these HA options are based on standard Microsoft methodologies and may not necessarily result in additional costs for software.
- MS Exchange is used by a large number of businesses and organizations around the world which simplifies integration with business partners.
- MS Exchange Server does have its pitfalls. There are many times where users complain of losing emails or they cannot locate emails using the search function. Also, MS Exchange Server does not have the best out-of-the-box troubleshooting and mail tracing tools.
- The MS Exchange platform is extremely vulnerable against possible threats and hacking. It is therefore important to increase the network security around the Exchange Server to limit attacks. Also, you will need to ensure that the system stays updated with the latest security patches and service packs. The extensive maintenance required for supporting MS Exchange Server needs to be taken into account. You may need an Exchange administrator to continuously monitor and support the system which may increase operational support costs.
MS Exchange on-prem. The real deal.
- Seamless integration with MS Outlook, client for Windows and Mac, Mobile devices and Web access.
- Incorporates calendar, email, contact list and tasks within the software. All information is kept in the mailbox database on the Exchange servers.
- High availability. The clustering that MS uses for Exchange has come a long way. Their Database Availability Group technology keeps a copy of the database(s) on each host within the cluster. We have not experienced an outage since implementing Exchange 2010, over 6 years ago. We are now running Exchange 2016 without issues.
- Some of our customers have asked for a feature called 'plus addressing'. This is widely used in the Linux/Gmail email systems but is not available on Exchange.
- Inbox rules. The basics are there, however, there is some need for a more robust method of catching and sorting email. Some rule editors include a RegEx editor that would allow for this.
- As of a few years ago, MS has been focusing more on their development efforts on their cloud solution and now so much on the on-premises application. Most feel that the new features do not make it to the on-prem application, forcing corporations to migrate to the cloud.
- Anti-SPAM and AntiVirus. MS Exchange has never done a great job of keeping the bad email out of the system. This has opened up an opportunity for other companies to take advantage of selling an email firewall to catch a bad email before reaching Exchange.
Excellent email solution
- Very good notification
- Email editing and sending
- Email archiving
- Contacts management
- Planing and scheduler
- Migration from one version to another is a bit complicated
- Rules administration can be more easily to do
- No other issues or problem was identified
- It can sync all emails, contacts and calendar very well.
- Setting up accounts and configuring emails on this software is very easy.
- It provides a mobile application also which helps users to access email while traveling.
- Sometimes its email sorting happens with errors. Some of my important emails went to my Junk folder.
- It is not well optimised with Mac OS. I had to uninstall it from my MacBook.
- It doesn't work well with a slow internet connection.
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.