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swinnie

swinnie

swinnie

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Hi Guys,

Thought this would be the best place for this, with Exchange being a "business level" product.

So, I am working with a company interested in changing their email system as they're using Hotmail with an Outlook Connector Plugin with their .co.uk domain - which is very messy. They're also interested in exploring additional features, such as shared mailboxes, sales@ and shared calendars if possible.

Do any of you guys have any suggestions about which providers to use, and if the above is possible with regards to shared calendars etc?

Many Thanks

James
 
Yes. They are alright, reasonably responsive, have had about 1 day total of down time in about 3 years, had up to 50 accounts, calenders, contacts etc , iPhone sync, outlook setup etc. There could be better out there, but in business terms they fulfill the requirements so DO NOT FIX is the mantra here
 
Perhaps look into Office365 from Microsoft, currently in beta, costs start at £4 per user per month. For that you get Exchange with 25GB per user, SharePoint team site (shared Calendars), Lync and Office. Think it's a minimum of 5 users. Can be federated with your on-premise Domain for SSO.

Who'd want to be an Exchange or SharePoint hosting company competing against that? :)
 
Well i'm sure I say this every time one of these threads pops up, but I work for Cobweb (www.cobweb.com) and our primary business is hosted exchange.

Don't think we can compete punch for punch with the Office365 stuff (tbh, other than the big players like Google who can really?) but you will probably get much better support from us than you would from them.

http://www.cobweb.com/hosted-services/hosted-exchange.aspx if you're interested.

We currently have over 60k mailboxes and at this point in time have 9 Exchange 2007 clustered mailbox servers. We have some big names on board with us too like the guys at Innocent Drinks, All 3 Media etc.
 
Yes, am testing the Office365 beta, with regard to Exchange it provides OWA and Exchange access via Outlook. Does what it says on the tin, so far so good.

Your point about support is very important. Actually being able to phone someone and get an answer is very important. The other major point would be about security; with a 3rd party hosting partner, you can ring them and ask "where is my data?" and expect an answer, or even visit them on-site and validate their physical security. However, when you use a cloud based service it's very much an unknown where your data is, who has access to it and where it may physically end up (if your data ends in a country with different data protection laws where do you stand?)!
 
Eulogy said:
you will probably get much better support from us than you would from them.
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We use Cobweb at work for our external self employed contractors and the support is excellent. Ever much so that we give them cobweb's direct number to contact.

We have had one problem that went on for awhile that ended up her getting an mac consultant and billing us for it. But Cobweb held up their hands and agreed to split the bill with us which is what we wanted.

+1 for Cobweb.
 
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