Exchange - Decades of use and no regrets
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Exchange
Used for Corporate messaging, private-label email domains for partners, custom mail handling, and responding in a hybrid cloud/on-prem landscape. Exchange solved several business problems involved around brand continuity, automated customer communications, mail routing and rule-based handling, threat recognition training, and DKIM signaturing. Our scope was all corporate users, as well as most of our portfolio of 30+ house-owned brands and partners, handling all aspects of partners' email messaging for clients.
Pros
- Operational stability of migrating on-prem to cloud
- Database resiliency and robustness
- Robust message tracking
Cons
- Reclaiming of Database 'whitespace'
- Native DKIM and SPF creation wizards (non third party)
- More robust and more granular Transport Rule programming
- Transport Rules
- Database Failover
- Brick level backups (Granular backups)
- Positive - No need for extended support contracts with experience Exchange staff.
- Positive - Long product useful life without needing upgrades.
- Negative - Inability to migrate custom routed email domains to EOL with complex/costly internal changes.
Do you think Microsoft Exchange delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Exchange's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Exchange live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Microsoft Exchange go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Exchange again?
Yes
Microsoft Exchange Feature Ratings
Using Microsoft Exchange
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Any and all mailbox administration
- Resource permissions and visibility management
- Transport Rules
- Mail Domain setups
- Message Tracking
- Database failovers in GUI
- Database Whitespace reclaiming
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