Exchange Hosted Services

tliles — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:04:00 GMT

The name implies that Microsoft will start hosting Exchange, but that is not the case. Microsoft will be hosting services that will tie into your existing Exchange system. Whether you have in-house Exchange or hosted, you can leverage 4 different offering to increase your mail; security, encryption, archiving, continuity, and filtering.

The big thing here is reducing hardware and administrative costs as well as uptime. Mail is (in most cases) the most critical application for a business and when mail flow stops, a large part of communications are cut off. Using a hosted service for DR and filtering can greatly reduce that downtime and in the case of the Continuity offering cut it out all together.

More info at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services/services.mspx

Office Live Beta

tliles — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:53:00 GMT

One of the many new offerings Micrsoft has around the "Live" name is Office Live. Office Live is a service based program that allows small and mid-size business to establish a web presence without hosting their own server(s). There are 3 offerings that range from a basic WYSIWYG company web site creator and 5 email address with the ability to choose a domain name(free, ad-supported). All the way up to a Front Page supported company web page for added customization, 50 email addresses, choose a domain name. project managment, collaboration for internal and external users, time tracking applications and more(29.95 a month, no adds)

This is a pretty exciting offer, especially for really small shops. They can now get their name out there as well as get away from the office to do thier work. All that is needed is an internet connection and a .Net passport. Check out the different offerings at http://officelive.microsoft.com/

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Exchange Hosted Services

Office Live Beta