Microsoft Exchange on Premise
April 30, 2021

Microsoft Exchange on Premise

Jacob Klein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange is used at our organization for email and communications. We use it for scheduling meetings and maintaining our meeting room spaces as well. The entire organization is using it across all our departments. Email is used on desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and even touch screens across our buildings for digital signage in our meeting rooms.
  • 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
  • Email
  • Meeting coordination
  • integration with Active Directory and single sign on using ldap
  • hard to quantify ROI for email, its an essential business need
  • ability to have greater control of email infrastructure
  • not as easy to implement new security protocols compared to Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)
Office 365 is very comparable as far as features are concerned. Easy to migrate from exchange to 365 when the organization is ready to move to cloud administration/email. Also can run in hybrid mode which is what our organization is doing now. Gives us control on Exchange and ability to offload data and management of email to the cloud administration tools.

Do you think Microsoft Exchange delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Exchange's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Exchange live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Exchange go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Microsoft Exchange again?

Yes

Microsoft Exchange is well suited for the organization that runs Microsoft Active Directory Services. The integration with Active Directory makes this well suited for any organization that also has staff with MS knowledge and skillsets to manage an Exchange environment. It may not make sense to install Exchange if you don't have the ability to host an on premise exchange server. If you don't have the proper environment to support the investment, then it may make more sense to use Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Exchange Feature Ratings

Anti-malware
8
Customizability
9
Data Loss Protection
9
Threat Detection
9
Sandboxing
9
End-to-End Encryption
9
Management Tools
9