Dream Machine Pro - Routing public IP's Networking.Bundling Google Apps, Message Discovery, and an SSO/2-factor authentication tool would give you both the front-end security and compliant archiving you need. If cost and security are your primary concerns, I suggest you expand your options and look Google Apps (yes, I am biased). will likely chime in as Rackspace's hosted Exchange services DOES NOT HAVE THESE PROBLEMS !!! Not cool.įinally, make sure your vendor can support a 2-factor authentication system if you have one in place or you need one. they inadvertently disclosed valid email address across their customer base. If you are not aware of what happened to USA.NET yesterday, a routine error message resulted in an email being sent to all users. While outages are generally rare for most services, they can be devastating when they happen.Īlso, make sure the hosting vendor is truly running a mult-tenant system and not just hosting multiple customers across servers. Most hosted Exchange services are simply running hosted servers and lack redundancy in their environment. It'd be nice but not a necessity.ĭo I have my facts straight about Microsoft Exchange server roles? Also mobile devices are not that important to us. So as you can tell, I'm looking for the most secure, than the cheapest of the most secure. If I do go with exchange, I would like to outsource it to save money. I would love to keep the whole thing in house, but if exchange is inherently more secure than communigate, than I'll have to go with exchange. We were looking at the communigate pro closely because Microsoft Exchange requires a edge transport server as well as the hub server essentially requiring two servers! right? Whereas the communigate pro is cheaper, and only needs one server, which is cheaper yet. The other solution is contacting a microsoft partner and having the whole thing outsourced (idea of someone in management). We're looking at two different solutions, one is communigate pro on an internal server we already have bought (the server not the software). I guess I should elaborate a little as well.
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My user base is similar to your own, we currently have 75 users across 4 sites all using a mixture of Windows Mobile, Nokia devices and Outlook Web Access and the traditional Outlook clients both locally and across site to site VPN. We do have all our mobile devices connected to our Exchange server for email using Windows Mobile and Mail for Exchange on Nokia devices which works really well and does give you some degree of control over the device if it goes missing at least you can perform a remote wipe. We have added our own further security to Exchange 2007 last year with ESET Smart Security for Exchange Server which has reduced spam a lot. My main concerns where keeping archived email which Google does not offer, I don't know if any other hosting companies do. I decided to stick with an internal solution as Exchange is a good product we already had it and it does just work. I did last year look into moving to Google Apps for Enterprise and have heard of a number of companies that have, big companies as well. I have not seen Exchange 2010 yet but 2007 was a massive improvement on the ageing 2000/2003 releases.
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It has to be said that Exchange is a proven, reliable and stable product with plenty of free forum support. You will have a initial outlay for server hardware (has to be 圆4) and licensing and it will take up IT department time to monitor and maintain Exchange. If you decide upon an internal solution such as MS Exchange then you have the benefit of being in control, many packages integrate with Exchange and further development is frequent and since Exchange 2007 it is more customisable and easier to setup. Google as is quite often easy to connect to a very wide range of mobile devices to these services if you have a mixed base like we do of Windows Mobiles and Nokia/Symbian units. Hosted solutions are sometimes easier for connecting mobile devices, a lot of hosted solutions do get round the mobile email problem. You also have to ask where your data is stored by hosted suppliers as sometimes it could be anywhere in the world, how does that impact on local legislation? How much backup can that supplier keep? Google Apps Email is only 90 days worth. Hosted email an save you a lot of effort and initial capital investment, licensing and some security worries but on the other hand on a on-going monthly basis it can be more expensive overall, they often don't integrate well with other systems and you are bound by the development of the hosting supplier.
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