Help...the ITs about to hit the fan

[Caged]

I guess it's a good job that this is a thread where someone had inherited a load of broken gear in a small company and has a very limited amount of capital budget then, and not a large defense organisation. I still don't agree with your view that onsite is inherently more secure than a hosted provider, it's probably easier to completely balls up the security on an SBS box, especially if it's being looked after by someone who is new to the game. It's not the black and white good vs. bad decision that you're trying to distill it down to.

I don't understand your argument regarding queuing messages - it still has to be transferred. Taking Outlook as an example, the user hits send and gets on with something else.

 

[Quartz]

I guess it's a good job that this is a thread where someone had inherited a load of broken gear in a small company and has a very limited amount of capital budget then, and not a large defense organisation

My comments applied to the small organisations for whom I've worked too. Really, if you're competing with the Far East or America, you are at risk.

 

[Caged]

If you believe the risk posed to a business by hosting email on Office 365 is greater than the risk posed by someone with no prior Exchange administration experience hosting it on an SBS box in a small office with a non-redundant internet link and no failover plans in place in the event of a long power outage, fire, flood etc. then I stand by my paranoia comment.

Like you said, it's a business decision. I'm not advocating 'cloud cloud cloud!' for every situation, but it suits this one - and 99% of businesses in this situation - perfectly.