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Microsoft Exchange

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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Recent Reviews

Reliable software

8 out of 10
June 11, 2022
A more formal means of communication. Search for contacts and previous emails in a simple way. It adapts to your work style so that you …
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Popular Features

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  • Data Loss Protection (66)
    8.6
    86%
  • Management Tools (78)
    8.4
    84%
  • Threat Detection (65)
    7.9
    79%
  • Customizability (76)
    7.9
    79%
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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

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Frequently Asked Questions

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).

Reviewers rate Data Loss Protection highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Microsoft Exchange are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For about two years my company has been using Microsoft Office 365. I believe it has helped out a lot with communication amongst the company. While working within the 365 platforms in Outlook we are able to manage cross-team projects better. Also, we have been able to use Yammer in order to improve company-wide communications.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange is one of the best options for an integrated email platform with O365 integration because no one does Office integrations like Microsoft. It is also relatively inexpensive for large organizations. The support team is also very helpful. Although I wish the sync between devices was smoother. It may be due to security issues, but sometimes I have trouble connecting on my phone to my organizational emails. You need a plethora of apps installed, which ask you to log in occasionally, which can be a pain when I just want to quickly go through my emails. This hasn't been a problem on iPhones though. Anyways, Exchange is the best choice for when you need to work a lot with emails and meetings and need a proper system to keep them all organized.
June 07, 2022

Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For many small businesses, on-premise Microsoft Exchange may be prohibitively expensive. Office 365 is a hosted Exchange option for small businesses that want the power of Exchange but can't afford the costs of installing and maintaining an on-premise Exchange instance. Microsoft Exchange is ideal for medium- to large-sized businesses. It's sturdy, powerful, and dependable. If you want the best email in the industry, Microsoft Exchange is the way to go. In this regard, there is literally no better product on the market.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This application has a variety of solutions for user experiences, you can reach your mails over the official Microsoft exchange application, web interface, or even by an exchange plugin for another general-purpose mail client if you have a Linux os. This feature makes the Microsoft exchange server distinguishable as opposed to opponents. However, some third-party exchange server plugins are really buggy and do not reflect the full capability of the application. Hence it would be better for Microsoft to support other operating systems.
Andrea Bardone | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It manages a lot of emails, it's good for searching with a lot of parameters, and it manages distribution lists and shared mailboxes. It is good for rules, sometimes I don't understand the logic con the unread email. It works offline very well. In comparison with Gmail, it has "annul features" while you're sending the email, and the tagging features in less friendly.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would only recommend Exchange Server is on-premise email storage is absolutely necessary. For new companies looking for email hosting, I would go for Microsoft 365 instead. Exchange Server has lost any reputation for being secure in the past few years, and without a managed team, in-house or consultant, I don't think it's a good fit due to its maintenance requirements. It is NOT a set it and forgets it application. It needs backups configured, those need to be tested, it needs extra spam filtering software in my opinion, and it needs constant security patches.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have been using Microsoft Exchange since the start of my professional career and its user-friendliness and ease of use helped me with the transition. It helped me in making my work efficient and allowed me to keep track of the tasks I am working on and allowed me to relevant updates to the stakeholders in a timely fashion.
June 07, 2022

Microsoft Exchange

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange was intended for ideal security and protection, with an assortment of elements at both the server and letter drop level. Microsoft Exchange Server utilizes Kerberos verification, an organization security convention that gives shared validation to an organization association. Extra security convention support incorporates Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME), empowering clients to carefully sign and encode messages and connections or to get to their letter drops safely, without a VPN association, while working external organization firewalls. Against spam highlights incorporate the help of constant Safe and Block records and both server-side and client-side message sifting in Outlook to assist with diminishing how much spontaneous garbage email messages.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange is one of the most key functions a business could use if they choose to go with the Microsoft stack. Most organizations will naturally use this if they are in the M365 stack, and I recommend using the cloud version of Outlook as it has the exchange backend. Exchange is a great system due to its reliability and ease of use between platforms.
Brett Amato | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange is very well suited for industries with legal or regulatory messaging preservation requirements with the (historically) eDiscovery and legal holds functions. Companies needing a lot of mailboxes and resources with very few admins with limited experience with SMTP and messaging would do well to employ Exchange because of the readily available online resources and approachable interface and concepts.
Andrea Lemo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the field of coordinating agendas, and meetings, and following up on topics of conversation by searching for emails, it is excellent. The way of joining emails in the same conversation facilitates the search when you only remember one part of that conversation. It could improve its integration with OneNote and teams which sometimes feel like 3 completely separate worlds unless you really try, like including notes from a meeting or exporting a OneNote page to email.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my experience, Microsoft Exchange is ideal in all business environments, whether they are small companies or very large companies. It gives many advantages when it comes to managing mail for security, ease, or economy. I rate this system 10 out of 10 because, at the moment, all my users, including senior managers, are satisfied with this product. I recommend this system to my tech colleagues to check it out and try it out.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange is perfect when working from home/remotely, any office position where it's necessary to inform multiple people of the same thing. Anyone who manages multiple people/appointments/projects would greatly benefit from all of the features Exchange has to offer. File sharing is so easy and fast with Microsoft Exchange, anyone who collaborates professionally with others will love the program.
June 07, 2022

An old standard

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange is a staunch standard in the field, and there are very few scenarios where it is less than ideal. Being that Microsoft can often be late on a zero-day response, high-risk environments may wish to consider a higher security platform or at least bolstering security with a product such as Barracuda or Avanan.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited to most organisations, is a very scaleable product and if used in conjunction with O365, then can provide an all round mail solution that has protection and deals with most scenarios. I have on quite a few projects instigated this dual approach where there is a need to retain a local presence. O365 Exchange on its own is quite a basic tool in comparison and could facilitate the extra functionality of the full product making it a better user experience.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As an Enterprise service, Microsoft has done well to cater to the business needs of organizations with its strong suite of products that Microsoft Exchange is a part of. It is a relatively user friendly, reliable, and secure service that integrates will with other leading Microsoft Enterprise services like Active Directory. This makes it a very easy choice for any business organization to cover all their needs.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange is well suited in all situations where finding archived info, emails, photos, etc. may be needed. This happens daily while working in most jobs, especially when needing to reference something. Everyday we are bombarded with tons of information, it is hard to retain it all - this helps you reference anything if needed.
Joshua Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft exchange is well suited for corporate communications on the general scale and standard calendar event planning for any employee's schedule. However, it is not as well suited for small group or teams specific communications to support file sharing and resource management. Some event management features are cumbersome and difficult to work with.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange is great for sending and receiving emails and setting up meetings and appointments. It is also great as a central location for all emails. It is not great for new users and those who want extra security when sending emails.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Exchange has been used for a long time with multiple companies. People are familiar with it and IT usually has an idea of a solution for problems. With a program so frequently used, people get better at self fixing common bugs. We like to use it because it’s affordable, reliable and well known.
Jeffrey Rudacille | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[Microsoft] Exchange is well suited for any organization that uses or plans on using Microsoft products as part of their offering. Almost all versions of Office come with the Outlook client and that sets up the expectation that those organizations will also use Exchange, whether Online or On-Premise, for their service side needs. In addition it is used so widely in corporations that finding support is much easier than some lesser known situations so its safe to use even in smaller shops where full time IT is not on staff. If your business is one that focuses on Google or open source products, trying to shoe horn Exchange into your environment is probably not the best choice as it would needlessly complicate your infrastructure.
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