Microsoft Exchange Reviews

It helps because it's easier for the employees to exchange emails. Instead of their using their personal emails, at least now they are using the company email.

One thing I like about it is the support. Microsoft is very good at providing support. I also like that it integrates well with calendar, scheduling, etc. It's easy for employees to make meetings and plan their agendas.

It requires a lot of maintenance. I think the cloud solution would be better and easier to manage as well.

Deployment should become a bit easier, the process is a bit complicated. You have to have done it one or two times before you get it right. The first time you do it, it won't be perfect. There are a lot of complications compared to Gmail For Business, which is a bit easier when it comes to configuration.

It is very stable. But at certain times you find that fixes and patches which they release can mess things up. But so far, I haven't come across any major issue.

The support is there with the number of people using it. It's very easy to get solutions when you're stuck. Somewhere, someone is going through the same problems. They're willing to help you with the solution.

At the time I joined the organization, they didn't have an email solution in-house. Employees were using their personal emails. Some of were using Yahoo!, some were using Gmail. If someone left the company, they would take with them the emails they had received from clients. We needed an in-house email solution like Exchange so that if someone leaves we are able to keep the emails.

To me, the most important criteria when selecting a vendor are maintenance and support. Features also matter. Then I look at the pricing. Is it too costly, is the organization going to be able to afford it? So cost plays a major role. When I go to the Director and say I want to buy this solution, the main thing he will look at is the pricing. He will ask, "Why are you getting these features, it's very expensive. Why aren't you going with this other option, it's cheaper?" But again, if the support is great and the pricing is a bit higher it's worth it.

The installation was simple and straightforward. We didn't have any hiccups. It went fine.

They are flexible when it comes to pricing, unlike most of the other vendors I have dealt with.

If you don't really mind the cost then go for Microsoft. You can never go wrong with them, their solutions are very good. They're stable. They're all tested, so when you start you know it has already been tested. There are many people using it, it's comfortable, it's stable. You won't have any hiccups. I would recommend it.

One thing I've been doing is, before I deploy it to a production environment, I always create a "lab" where I try it out and make sure everything is working properly.

EWS support, through which I have customized, e.g., response for my device to display meeting info on device.

Using EWS support, we have created a custom UI to display meeting info on our local portal to utilize and manage meeting and conference rooms effectively.

It is overall all good, though technical support is just average.

Two and a half years. Currently, I am not working in the specific project. so I am not using it, but the company is using it.

No.

No.

Just average.

Previously used Lotus Domino and moved to this box of support. We switched because of the help that we easily get from it.

Not applicable.

Not put on the team managing this.

No.

The mobile version of exchange keeps getting better as the product develops and synchronizes with today's latest mobile hardware. Security wise this gives local administrators control over these devices if stolen or lost. 

The Exchange Toolbox comes with many useful tools for exchange administrators including Message Tracking, Tracking Log Explorer, and many more. Exchange really shines by allowing third party apps to manage and integrate with many software's geared towards the Outlook environment. 

Exchange is an ever growing environment that will always have stronghold in the world of communicating and organizing information that is reliable.

I would have to say the biggest improvement is communication. Communication is a big factor in any business. Email allows us to have history on communication and real time communications. Shared calendars are a great way to reserve rooms and share your meetings with team members. Distribution groups are becoming more popular for group communication. Outlook/Exchange creates a very open environment for communications and archiving information when needed. Exchange is a ever growing application that will only get better over time and will evolve and adapt to our everyday communications needs now and in the future.

The issue with Exchange has always been storage. Users by nature do not like to delete anything and it shows. So we have to create local polices to counter this issue and possibly 3rd party software to properly manage archiving for the users. We also are looking into upgrading the Exchange environment in 2016/2017. This would be an improvement overall as Microsoft latest release was in 2013 and we are still on version 2010. This would also give our environment improvement as we are building a new Exchange environment from scratch with a Microsoft partner.

We've had no issues deploying it.

We've had no issues with stability.

We've had no issues with scalability.

I just use it for email.

The security and compliance features have impacted our organization. We use multifactor authentication with mobile authentication for the first use on any PC or device. We also have a feature that requires re-authentication if you haven't logged in for a certain amount of time.

It's very well integrated with OneDrive and Teams Calendar. We are using Microsoft 365, so the integration is very good.

Until now, I think integration with the Copilot AI would be good. 

I like its reliability. It's very stable, and it just works.

The events and meetings feature are the most beneficial for managing communications.

It is synchronized automatically with our organization's calendar, and everyone is aware of the event or meeting. We can meet in person or through Microsoft Teams.

More AI features would be good. For example, maybe AI could suggest sentences or enhancements to paragraphs while writing an email.

So, the CoPilot integrations could be further improved. 

I have been using it for about ten years now.

It is very stable.

It is scalable. Scalability is one of the powerful features of all Microsoft products.

There are about 700 users in our organization who use Exchange.

I used Mail Enable. The integration with the calendar. The other solution was a little bit hard.

The initial setup was straightforward. The setup us not complex than it needs to be. It works smoothly.

I work with the on-premises version of Exchange. It is deployed across multiple locations.

The deployment and maintenance part is covered by another team.

Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.