Hosted Exchange

[Darren]

Does anyone have any good recommendations for hosted exchange?

Will be sending and receiving large data files so would neeed a high message limit and storage options.

Thanks in advance.

Darren.

 

[Admin]

Go for Office 365 direct from Microsoft. I have rolled this out globally and works a treat.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/business/compare-office-365-for-business-plans-FX102918419.aspx

Monthly subscription includes Sharepoint as a bonus.

You get full Outlook web version and online management tools.

You get 25GB email space per user plus 7GB Sky drive per user. You can also sync the emails down to a local OST file so that you clear down the server and archive locally.

Admin

 

[Darren]

Hello Alan,

25GB of inbox space, how large is the archive?

The account will be receiving several GB worth of data each month and all files need to be kept.

Thanks, Darren.

 

[PoshTiger]

+1 for Office 365, it's great.

Exchange Online (Plan 1) Users receive a combined total size of 25 GB for their primary mailbox and archive mailbox. Therefore, the size of the user’s archive mailbox can’t exceed 25 GB.

Exchange Online (Plan 2) Users receive unlimited storage in their archive mailbox. However, a default quota of 100 GB is set on the archive mailbox. In the unlikely event that a user reaches this quota, contact Office 365 support to request more storage space for the archive mailbox.

 

[martin-s]

http://www.rackspace.co.uk/email-apps/email-hosting/compare-editions/

 

[mark]

Do also consider Google Apps!

google.com/a

 

[Admin]

+1 for Office 365, it's great.

Exchange Online (Plan 1) Users receive a combined total size of 25 GB for their primary mailbox and archive mailbox. Therefore, the size of the user’s archive mailbox can’t exceed 25 GB.

Exchange Online (Plan 2) Users receive unlimited storage in their archive mailbox. However, a default quota of 100 GB is set on the archive mailbox. In the unlikely event that a user reaches this quota, contact Office 365 support to request more storage space for the archive mailbox.

Can't you just push archived emails to a separate and local PST/OST file on the user's hard disk after X days?

Google recently changed it's storage policy, it used to be 10GB on Gmail, 5GB on G Drive and G+, all free. Now you can spread the 15GB across all 3 services, see the Gmail blog for more.

Connect Kloudless (bit.ly/kloudless319 to your Gmail and it will automatically move any attachments you receive to an online storage service: either Dropbox, G Drive or Box.

You can even set up rules as to what folder things get saved to.

If you just want to push files around have a look at wetransfer.com, it's free and gives you a download link in your email, rather than having to receive the file right into your Inbox.

If it's a regular thing, I would buy a NAS drive and set up an FTP type policy rather than using email as regardless what you use it's not the optimal way to push large files around. With O365 you could also store the files on Sharepoint (disk space is cheap and can be expanded) so that you could create a searchable file library.

Admin

 

[Darren]

Just a quick update and thank you to all who posted rep added.

Went with Microsoft Office Hosted Exchanged - very pleased.

Many thanks.

Darren.