Microsoft Exchange Online Reviews

Microsoft Exchange Online is used for all the emails and the software is used by all employees to send emails to others and to corroborate with other people over the email.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange Online is its performance.

There is an annual enterprise subscription could improve by having more features.

I have been using Microsoft Exchange Online for approximately 10 years.

Microsoft Exchange Online is stable.

I have found Microsoft Exchange Online to be scalable.

Microsoft Exchange Online support can be optimized further. They should put some more efficient technical engineers to support end customers.

I previously used Microsoft Exchange on-premise, and we switched because we wanted to use the cloud.

The initial setup of Microsoft Exchange Online is straightforward.

There is an annual enterprise subscription to use Microsoft Exchange Online. The price is reasonable.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Exchange Online a nine out of ten.

We use Exchange Online to host our company email.  Now that O365 admin portal has been becoming more and more powerful I rarely find myself needing to use the Exchange Admin portal.  

We have many customers that use Exchange Online. All of which has become much easier to manage over the years as the O365 admin portal has developed. 

I have made about 10 migrations from Gmail, ATT, Amplex, 2007 - 2013 on prem Exchange servers to Exchange Online. The uptime and stability is far better than any on-prem or hosted solution I have used in the past.

Being a MS partner gives you central administration over all of your customers.

- O365 Admin portal
- New admin reports
- Office 365 Secure Score 
- Integrated Security
- Ease of migration from anywhere
- Intuitive GUI for control (Has greatly improved)
- Filters
- Granular control
- Encryption for HIPPA standards
- Central administration over all applications and clients
- Built in support ticket system
- Free mobile applications (applies to specific subscriptions)

Microsoft does not provide an automated way to migrate Public Folders. At this time you will need to run a series of complex PowerShell commands.

Supposedly Microsoft has done something about the public folders, however I have not investigated it.  This may or may not still be an issue.  

The dashboard reveals when there are issues but none that my customers have ever experienced.

Exchange Online is extremely scalable. I know a company that migrate over 10k mailboxes. I am sure there are many companies that are much bigger yet.

Customer Service:

10 out of 10

Technical Support:

10 out of 10

As stated earlier, I have used Exchange on premises solutions, google, ATT, Rackspace and other solutions. They all do mail and do it well, however the ease of integration, simplicity of administration, and the overall support is the best! 

There is a learning curve when migrating from other solutions. Once you understand the process it is straight forward

All implementations were performed by me.

Currently as a Microsoft Partner we do not pay for an E3 license of O365 which includes Exchange Online. As for customers they are billed directly from Microsoft.

As a partner of record on each customer Microsoft pays out residuals as long as the customer continues to pay for the service.

If you are not a partner the ROI is based on the fact that you no longer need to pay for hardware/software, hardware/software maintenance, and labor to perform upgrades, maintenance, and troubleshooting of hardware/software.

The plans can be confusing. Take time to understand what you need, what you will need in the future, and buy a plan accordingly. 

Gmail, ATT, Amplex, other ISP solutions, On-prem Exhange. 

Moving to Exchange Online open doors for many options that come with O365 and Azure. As technology continues to move forward it is pushing us to the cloud. Starting with email in the cloud open doors for other solutions that may fit your business. 

We use the product for emails, document sharing, and document preparation using Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. 

Microsoft Exchange Online is easy to use. You have a common storage where people can store documents. It also helps with version control. 

The product needs to embed AI for intelligent searches and analytics. 

I have been using the product for ten years. 

The tool comes with bugs, and I see a lot of fixes. 

Microsoft Exchange Online's deployment is easy. My company focuses on software development; setting up the tool is a breeze. 

Microsoft Exchange Online is too expensive. 

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

Exchange Online plays a significant role in our business. It controls all our emails, so we'd be in a lot of trouble if we didn't have that. It's an essential product.

The problem with Exchange is that the attributes aren't flexible enough. I'd like to see more interaction with Office 365 and tighter integration between on-prem Exchange and Exchange Online. There's still a disconnect between mailboxes and the cloud. 

I've been using Exchange Online for the last 20 years.

Exchange Online is pretty scalable. We have about 6,000 users at our company.

I rate Microsoft support six out of 10. 

We were using a Windows NT 3.5 20 years ago and an on-prem version of Exchange.

Setting up Exchange Online is straightforward. I rate it eight out of 10 for ease of installation. The total time of deployment was a couple of days. I have eight staff looking after it.

There's a licensing cost, but it's included in our Azure pricing, so I'm not really concerned about it.

I rate Exchange Online seven out of 10. There's no alternative to it unless you want to use some Unix system, like Apache. People don't use Apache for wide-stream things like email and stuff like that. The only equivalent is a Linux-based or Unix-based solution, and who wants to do that?

We use SharePoint Online for the collaboration of our team and for other desktop applications we are using in-house.

We also create technical presentations, so most of the time we are dealing with MS Word and Excel. Sometimes, we also use Visio for diagramming. Our overall experience is good.

They should tighten their cloud security. If you are using Microsoft Office 365, the responsibility of backup is not on the part of Microsoft. It is on the part of the customer. Microsoft Office should give some kind of built-in solution with the Office 365 subscription regarding the backup of their online mailboxes.

My company has been a Microsoft Gold partner for the last 12 years. As soon as we became a Gold partner, we started to use Office 365.

It's stable.

We can have different plans. If we are scaling, then obviously we can go for the enterprise plan and add an unlimited number of users to our Office 365 plan.

Overall, technical support is very good. My colleagues reached out to Microsoft technical support many times for queries. They are very responsive.

Setup was really simple. We migrated our customers from a different platform to Microsoft Office 365. There is a separate technical team. I designed the solution only.

They have raised their prices, and obviously, it hits our customers. Some of them are deciding to step back from Office 365. For customers who have bought the annual subscription, they are moving to the monthly subscription.

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.

I would recommend Office 365. It's a global product, and overall they have a larger footprint in the world. We're a Microsoft Gold partner, so as soon as the customer moves to Office 365, obviously our business will also grow.

I use this solution for mail exchanges, calendars, and setting up meetings.  

The features of Microsoft Exchange Online are very intuitive and well-built, keeping the user experience in mind. The usability and the accessibility are the best aspects of this solution.

The SaaS platform performance could be improved. At a previous company, we used this same solution on-premises. The data exchange was much faster compared to the SaaS platform and we sometimes experience lags. 

I have used this solution for 15 years. 

This is a stable solution. 

We have never needed assistance from the customer service team. 

I have previously used IBM Notes and Google Gmail.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

We use Microsoft Exchange Online for email.

Microsoft Exchange Online's resiliency is its most valuable feature.

We use different software for email spoofing filters and similar functions because Exchange is quite limited in this area.

Email spoofing, monitoring, email marketing, and email broadcast have limits or are governed by the number of emails you can send, in any given hour.

I would like to use it as my email broadcasting method. 

I have been using Microsoft Exchange Online for three years. We were migrating before Covid.

Microsoft Exchange Online is quite stable.

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.

I would rate the scalability of Microsoft Exchange Online an eight out of ten.

I would the technical support a five out of ten.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

Make sure that's what you want to use. Consider your requirement. And if you want to scale to, say, an enterprise-class, you should be aware of certain of Exchange online's limits.

I like it, I would rate it a seven out of ten.

We have 2,000 users supported by this solution. 

The best part of this solution is the security it offers. Where we are able to determine which mailboxes have been blocked, or which mailboxes cannot be allowed to send traffic because of a violation. 

This solution involves a lot of work for an administrator. It is not always easy to find exactly what you are looking for within the system. Microsoft can do better in terms of security and offer solutions to deal with phising, BOMB and viruses.

I have been using this solution for two years. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution, especially if you make use of many Microsoft products. 

The technical support for this solution is really good. I would rate it a nine out of ten. 

The initial setup is very complex. 

This is an expensive solution. 

We did evaluate other options including Zimbra. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of of ten.