MICROSOFT HOSTED EXCHANGE FEATURES
Fully Outsourced Enterprise Email
Web based Provisioning
Free ActiveSync License for wireless synchronisation
Email Anywhere via Outlook Web Access (OWA)
McAfee Mail Firewall
5 Anti-Virus Engines scanning email
SPAM Filtering
99.9% uptime
24 Hour Support
IS Mercury © for non-windows compliant mobile devices available
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Feature
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Description
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Exchange Lite
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Exchange Premium
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Hosted Exchange
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First in the World Deployment of HMC 3.5: Hosted Exchange 2006
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YES
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YES
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Mobility
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ActiveSync enabled backend- free licensing
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YES
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YES
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Web Portal
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Users can access their mail via HTTP using Outlook Web Access (OWA). Textualised versions for low bandwidth connections are available through Outlook Mobile Access (OMA) from any Internet connection.
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YES
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YES
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Mail delivery
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Mail Delivery via POP3 or IMAP 4
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YES
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YES
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Synchronisation via MAPI (piped through HTTPS if using OWA web client)
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YES
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Global Address List
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Users gain access to the entire organisation address list
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YES
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Calendar
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Store and access appointments, with full view on other users in the organisation, set up appointments and view free/busy time of colleagues
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YES
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Tasks
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User use Exchange to manage their tasks and reminders
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YES
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Storage options
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Variable storage plans per user up to 1 GB mailboxes
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YES
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YES
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Security
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Redundant firewalls; MS Active Directory for authentication; and the secure web access protected by SSL certificates.
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YES
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YES
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Antivirus
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All external mail inspected via McAfee running on Mail Marshal
Sybari’s Antigen Anti-Virus for protection of mail on Exchange
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YES
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YES
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Anti spam
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Mail Marshal anti spam can be enabled to filter spam messages.
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YES
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YES
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Support
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IS’ call centre: 24 hours per day, 365 days per year for technical contacts.
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YES
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YES
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Monitoring
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Advanced monitoring through Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) software is performed on all servers along with notification of any issues.
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YES
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YES
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