Why use an exhange server?

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englishpremier

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As a small business of just 3 employees, can anyone tell me how using an exchange server for emails is of any benefit at all over regular IMAP or other options?

Additionally, is it easy to move from one exchange server host to another and keep all the businesses old emails and set-up?

Thanks
 
Having not done the latter I cannot comment, but for 3 employees there really isn't any justification for moving to exchange.
 
we use it because the boss wanted to push all emails , calender, notes, tasks etc.. to his phone in real time. we also wanted some sort of redundancy compared to out of house hosting(aswell as his mailbox being much larger that 2gb), it also gives more control over emails received etc.. policys and allows you to expand your domain early with VPN/RRAS, AD, DNS etc... like you we only have 3 employees including myself for IT. But we are recruiting a few more atm so it was sensible to expand this way. I will tell you know unless you are preapred to spend a bundle you wont be getting it :).

p.s we were also lucky enough to recieve a free copy of server 2008r2 (legally mind you) and currently using a trial copy of exchange which lasts for around 4 months, and after that we will be purchasing the full version.
 
We already have an exchange account, there are 3/4 of us. We don't share contacts and we don't share a calendar.

We pay thousands per year for our IT which the director and I think is over the top for such a small low tech business.

At the moment I'm looking at some options to move away from using our current exchange provider.

We need to be able to recieve email from anywhere in the world, which we can do at the moment, as can pretty much every email solution there is. We also need to recieve email to mobile devices specifically, Android and iOS

We can receive up to 20,000 in a short space of time due to the nature of our work.

The way i see it, we either keep using exchange and move to another hosted provider (but we need to keep all our profiles and settings)

Or we use a different solution. I don't imagine Microsoft own the whole email market at all.
 
Effective disaster recovery, backup, performance, remote working and security - all issues I'd be looking if I were to setup exchange, so wouldn't be cost effective for 3 pple. Best think about from how much would it cost if it went down / destroyed? Spending 100 quids a month becomes worth it.
 
Well our current system is far from reliable. In fact we are missing emails from important clients, and the It company can't guarantee we will get everything that isn't on a whitelist.

I've noticed heart do hosted exchange for around £10 per month.

What are the non-microsoft offerings, just so i have a comparison?
 
The issues you outline above are one of the main advantages of Hosting your won exchange environment. It gives you total control over things liek filtering and whitelists etc. Downside is it comes at a price, a big one.

I can't see any real benefit in using exchange over any other run of the mill email service with Domain mail forwarding for what you're doing. Exchange really comes into it's own for mass collaboration - Something you arn't doing.
 
If you have the SBS version of MS Server you get MS Exchange as part of it.

You do get the control but you still need to purchase a decent antispam software as well.

MS do hosted exchange as well.
 
dont use exchange unless you have an app that requires it...

sign up for GMAIL, £35 per user per year, 25GB mail storage, user the sync app to sync contacts / calendars etc...

less down time, more reliabe
 
edscdk said:
dont use exchange unless you have an app that requires it...

sign up for GMAIL, £35 per user per year, 25GB mail storage, user the sync app to sync contacts / calendars etc...

less down time, more reliabe
Click to expand...

thats google apps I mean,

I have set it up for a few different companies, easy to migrate...
 
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