Microsoft Exchange Online Reviews

The primary use case of the solution is mainly used for our email conversation, specifically for minutes of meeting or to propose a solution.

The most valuable features of the solution are the security of the email flow, the primary security, having a dedicated, consultative space where if I send an email from a billing app or from a browser or anywhere, it gets stored in consultative space, and some of the end users features such as Word solution.

Technical support can be improved by shortening the response time and increasing their knowledge. The solution can improve the integration with mobile applications.

I have been using the solution for over ten years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable.

The technical support is completely based on how we connect with the support team. I would say they just follow the ticketing process. I do have mixed feelings because it's completely based on the engineer allocated to my ticket. Depending on who you get some are more knowledgeable than others.

Neutral

• Technical support can be improved by shortening the response time and increasing their knowledge.

The initial setup is straightforward and is definitely easy. Anyone with basic IT knowledge should be able to do it.

I would say the solution is reasonable and affordable. Compared to the competitors, I would say it gives you a lot more functionality and is easy to integrate with other applications and tools. I give the solution ten out of ten for pricing.

I give the solution nine out of ten.

We currently have between six and seven thousand daily users.

The solution 

The solution doesn't require any maintenance. The solution is a cloud platform and everything is taken care of by Microsoft, so there is no maintenance required. It's maintenance-free.

I recommend the solution. As soon as you know what your needs are, you can go ahead with Microsoft Exchange Online. You don't need any demonstration of features, and you don't need to do any POCs.

I think the solution is pretty reasonable in what it does. In terms of mobile applications, that is Microsoft Outlook for Android and iOS integration, which can make some integration to Microsoft Teams application, which is already prospected in the desktop application. If they can have it in mobile application also, that would be good. But as a solution, I couldn't think of any new features that are required presently.

The experience has been rather good. We've had nothing major happen to us. We've had no major downtimes. We haven't lost mail so far, which is good.

I enjoy not having to maintain the local infrastructure, local servers, local whatever. You use the software and don't have to worry about the details. You're not concerned with administration tasks other than managing users, which, of course, our team does on a daily basis, basically.

The pricing is okay.

The solution is stable.

The product scales well.

The user interface isn't too bad.

There were a few short outages where mail delivery was flaky.

I don't really like the response time of the web GUI for administration. All this seems a bit slow and not responsive enough. They should provide a far simpler solution for sending mail from machines as this is not really intuitive.

Due to the restrictions that Azure and Microsoft impose on sending mail, for example, if you have an Azure-deployed server that is sending out mails (for a shop system or something like that) it's not really simple. Also, it is not really scalable to use Office 365 as a relay server.

There's not really a useful backup tool that comes along with Exchange Online. You have lots and lots of storage for each user, yet you have to buy extra backup tools just to back it up with an Exchange on-premise. You could do this just with onboard tools, however, there's no such thing in cloud deployment.

We completed the migration from Lotus Notes on-premise to Microsoft Office Online or Exchange Online last year.

The stability has been good. We haven't dealt with bugs or glitches. it's pretty reliable. 

I expect the product to scale well. That is what we are paying Microsoft quite a bit of money for. They have to address scalability, reliability, and things like that. We have the service-level agreement and it's their business to do it. That's what they get the money for. 

We have about 3,500 physical users currently using Exchange. There are 1,500 more that are not interactive (for example, service accounts, group mailboxes, and accounts for machines that send mail and things like that). That makes the total number of users 3,500 persons and about 1,200-1,500 users that are not necessarily people.

I haven't had any direct contact with technical support, however, I have not heard complaints as to their services.

We used to have an on-premise deployment of Lotus Notes, however, we discontinued using this and swapped over to Microsoft Exchange Online with the help of an external consultant as there was a lot of mailbox migration to do. That was a quite lengthy process due to the fact that we had several terabytes of mail storage that had to be migrated.

We had a partner help us migrate everything over. 

The deployment times depend on a few factors. From the first start to the last migrated mailbox, for us, the deployment took over half a year. That said, actually, it wasn't that long, as we deployed in several waves taking one user group at a time and migrating them over.

Therefore, the real transfer time was much less than the seven months. In total, if you take the net time, it might have only been one month of actual migration.  However, we made a point of migrating only on weekends to keep user satisfaction high and disturbance to daily business low.

We had a partner assist us with the process.

Pricing is good. However, it's also not exactly cheap.

It's my understanding that we have a contract that runs for two or three years with an enterprise agreement backing all this up. We do not buy on a yearly basis. That would be unusual for our company to buy for such short term.

Since the project was finished, I'm no longer in an administrative role with Exchange Online. I have passed it on to other colleagues. The administration part is no longer in my hands, for which I'm quite grateful. I don't have to do the daily tasks anymore. My main job is to be the principal cloud architect for the company. I'm, to a lesser extent, concerned with daily administration tasks.

I'd recommend potential new users just go ahead and do it. It reduces the on-site administration chores by quite a bit. It's reliable enough to be used without second thoughts for business if you can handle the cost that comes with it, as Exchange or the whole Office 365 is not exactly cheap, especially when you count in the cost for security-related services that come with Office 365 if you pay for them.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. It works well, just not perfectly.

Exchange Online's best feature is its webmail platform.

Exchange Online has issues with its mail flow and content search.

I've been using Exchange Online for two years.

Exchange Online is stable.

Exchange Online is very scalable

The initial setup was very basic.

I implemented Exchange Online myself.

We have a yearly license for Exchange Online.

I would recommend Exchange Online to other users and rate it nine out of ten.

I like that Exchange Online is easy to use and that I do not need to maintain the previous Exchange Server. I also do not need to worry about the security of the Exchange Server. If there are any issues, then it will be the service provider's problem and not mine.

Microsoft needs to lower the price of the extra production add-ins for Exchange Online.

I just switched to Microsoft Exchange Online two months ago but have been using the on-premises version for a year.

It has been stable so far.

I believe that it is scalable. At present, we have three users.

It's very easy to set up. It can be done in one hour by one person. Also, one person can handle the maintenance as well.

I would rate this solution at nine on a scale from one to ten and would recommend it as well.

I am using Microsoft Exchange Online for efficient mail deployment the additional file security. Additionally, we can do a collaboration.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange Online is its ease of use.

Microsoft Exchange Online could improve the overall protection of the solution.

I have been using Microsoft Exchange Online for approximately three months.

The stability of Microsoft Exchange Online is very good.

Microsoft Exchange Online is highly scalable.

We have approximately 10 people using this solution. We have plans to increase the usage in the future.

I have not used the support from Microsoft Exchange Online.

The initial setup of Microsoft Exchange Online is quick.

The price of Microsoft Exchange Online security could improve. The overall price of the solution is reasonable.

I rate Microsoft Exchange Online a nine out of ten.

I am using Microsoft Exchange Online for email.

Microsoft Exchange Online is an easy-to-use solution.

We would like to have more automation with Microsoft Exchange Online.

I have been using Microsoft Exchange Online for two years.

We have approximately 3,000 used in my company using this solution.

The solution is scalable.

I have not contacted support.

I have not used other solutions previously.

There is an annual license required to use this Microsoft Exchange Online.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Exchange Online an eight out of ten.

Microsoft Exchange Online is cloud-based and we always use the latest version. 

I believe that my company has been using the solution for many years, although I cannot state for certain how many, as the company was doing so prior to me having joined. 

We are currently using the online version of the solution, Office 365. 

We use the solution in respect of Office 365, email, Office, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams.

The licensing price of the solution could be lower. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

The technical support is decent. 

We did not make use of other solutions prior to Microsoft Exchange Online. 

As the solution is cloud-based, we found the installation to be easy. I do not know how long it took, as I was not responsible for this. 

Deployment and maintenance involved two people. 

The licensing price could be lower. The subscription fee is monthly. 

Our organization has 300 users making use of the solution. 

Our primary use case for this solution is as a messaging solution for our company.We use it both for internal and external messaging services.

There are two aspects to the improvement of our organization. First, is the data reliability, the ability for an administrator to provide data which has been in the user's mailbox. For example, if someone lost the email because of inadvertently deleting the emails, or anything, any object inside the inbox, whether it's a contact or a folder or an email. The admin can actually go and restore that information quite easily, rather than any other solution. 

Second, the mobility of the solution helps solve issues with information access across varied platforms. This has helped us if there are issues concerning emails that must be recovered due to legal issues, and the like.

It would be nice for SharePoint to integrate with other social media platforms like Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook. If all of these channels could perform together, that would be great.

In addition, there should be a feature of informing a user if the video, or large file someone would like to attach is too big a file. Instead of bouncing back to the writer, it should warn the user with a message that they cannot send a file over 30, 40 or 50 MB. It could be more engaging with the user, and this will make the platform more user-friendly.

The stability has increased exponentially since 2010. It is currently not an issue. There are fewer and fewer issues regarding how the backend handles data. The reliability factor is high.

I have not encountered issues with scalability of the solution.

I have had limited interraction with tech support. Whatever experience I had was OK. I have occasionally opened cases with them. 

It is straightforward, and not complex. If you have your IT director implement it, it has to be planned because users are using it and do not have a habit of cleaning up their mail boxes.

Initially, we had issues with the licensing agreement, but we worked it out with Microsoft.