Disaster Recovery for your Exchange E-mail
Just when you thought Microsoft had run out of ways to win your business, they introduce Exchange Hosted Services. These services range from spam filtering, to archiving, to hosted continuity. I’m discussing hosted continuity here, because it’s a unique service that solves a problem that in the past many small businesses thought was simply a fact of life when it comes to technology.
Let’s face it. You’ve grown accustomed to E-mail and your organization can’t live without it. You don’t want to think about it but someday your E-mail may go down. Sure you’ve got redundant hard drives, multiple backups, and plenty of security but there are so many other factors that could cause your server to go down from theft, to fire, to Internet access failure that are out of your control. Microsoft’s Exchange Hosted Continuity is a way to provide continuous access to E-mail for your users even when the server is down.
It works by making a copy of any incoming and outgoing E-mails and storing them in an offsite messages store for 30 days. If your system is down, you simply connect to the off-site website to retrieve your E-mails. What's better, your E-mail continues to come in to this backup server - all automatically! You never lose any incoming E-mail!
And you can retrieve your E-mail from anywhere. There’s no additional hardware or software needed for this service!
So how much does the service cost? The price is $2.50 per user per month with a minimum of three years. You can purchase as few as 5 user license.
Unfortunately the service doesn’t yet replicate public folders or calendars yet, but Microsoft claims they are working on that for a later release. Also, you can’t sign up just a few mailboxes, you need to purchase the service for everyone with an Exchange mailbox in your organization (from the president down to the interns.)
So if your organization can’t function without your E-mail for even a day, Exchange Hosted Continuity may be your answer. For more information give us a call or go to
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services/continuity.mspx
For more information on all of Microsoft’s Exchange Hosted Services see:
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services/default.mspx
Mike Tanney
Product Manager
HLP Associates, Inc.
www.hlp.net
Let’s face it. You’ve grown accustomed to E-mail and your organization can’t live without it. You don’t want to think about it but someday your E-mail may go down. Sure you’ve got redundant hard drives, multiple backups, and plenty of security but there are so many other factors that could cause your server to go down from theft, to fire, to Internet access failure that are out of your control. Microsoft’s Exchange Hosted Continuity is a way to provide continuous access to E-mail for your users even when the server is down.
It works by making a copy of any incoming and outgoing E-mails and storing them in an offsite messages store for 30 days. If your system is down, you simply connect to the off-site website to retrieve your E-mails. What's better, your E-mail continues to come in to this backup server - all automatically! You never lose any incoming E-mail!
And you can retrieve your E-mail from anywhere. There’s no additional hardware or software needed for this service!
So how much does the service cost? The price is $2.50 per user per month with a minimum of three years. You can purchase as few as 5 user license.
Unfortunately the service doesn’t yet replicate public folders or calendars yet, but Microsoft claims they are working on that for a later release. Also, you can’t sign up just a few mailboxes, you need to purchase the service for everyone with an Exchange mailbox in your organization (from the president down to the interns.)
So if your organization can’t function without your E-mail for even a day, Exchange Hosted Continuity may be your answer. For more information give us a call or go to
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services/continuity.mspx
For more information on all of Microsoft’s Exchange Hosted Services see:
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services/default.mspx
Mike Tanney
Product Manager
HLP Associates, Inc.
www.hlp.net
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