Microsoft^® Exchange Online provides your business with all the features of an In-house Exchange 2010 Server. Exchange Online can be purchased in a variety of Office 365 bundles or as a stand- alone service for $5.00 a month per user. Microsoft has beat out its competitors by offering Exchange Online at a low price and by including 25 GBs of storage per mailbox.

Exchange Online includes Outlook^® Web Access, which you can easily view through the Microsoft Online Portal. OWA has the look and feel of Outlook and includes a host of options, like automatic replies, inbox rules, scheduling Assistant and the ability to open other user’s mailboxes if you have the correct permissions.

It easily connects to Outlook to give you a mirror of your mailbox with Outlook Anywhere Access and Outlook Wireless Active Sync. For example, if I create a new calendar item in Outlook, it immediately shows up in Outlook Web Access and on my smart phone. If I delete it in OWA, it deletes in Outlook and on my phone. I don’t have to sync my Outlook to my phone with a USB cable, or make sure my computer at the office is on so the changes are pushed to my phone. It’s all done through wireless sync to Exchange Online.

Another new feature in Exchange is the ability to view a conversation or chain of emails. Click on the email and you can easily see all the sent and received emails associated with it in Outlook 2010 or Outlook Web Access.

Exchange Online has some new administrator features. You can add unlimited external contacts and create distribution lists. You can now journal all email to multiple email addresses for archiving and compliance purposes. You can easily create automatic rules for mailboxes. For example, you can have a disclaimer for compliance purposes added automatically to all outbound email. Exchange Online also accepts Windows PowerShell™ commands for advanced administration.

Sign up here for a free trial or call us at 619-301-3501 if you have questions about moving your business to Exchange Online.