MS Exchange 2007 hosting means enterprise-strength email

Exchange Hosting Features

TechOnADesk.com's hosted Exchange 2007 service comes with all the features you need for enterprise-strength email.

We run the full version of Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, so your staff gets the same quality Outlook-Exchange email platform as a Fortune 500 corporation.

The TechOnADesk.com's Exchange hosting service includes:

  • Free Outlook 2007 or Entourage. With outstanding new features like 'Instant Search', Outlook 2007 is a huge improvement over previous versions. Read more...
  • EMC storage. Your email and vital business data is stored on a storage area network from EMC, the world's most expensive and high-quality storage provider. Read more...
  • Antivirus. Fully-managed and updated continuously 24x7, your email is protected. Read more...
  • Antispam. Built-in spam protection to keep your staff productive. Read more...
  • Nightly backup. All your data is backed up and stored separately every night. Read more...
  • Control Panel. Our control panel provides you with instant self-service and control, 24x7.

Free Outlook 2007/Entourage 2004

Our hosted Exchange service includes a free copy of Outlook 2007 or Entourage 2004 for Mac for all mailbox users in your company.

Outlook 2007This is a major advantage for hosting versus 'in-house' Exchange 2007 software, which no longer includes Outlook 2007. To run Exchange 2007 in-house, you would have to purchase standalone Outlook 2007 (for $109) or Office 2007 (for around $400).

Outlook 2007 offers a great user experience and great new features, including:

  • Instant search. Find any email instantly using the built-in indexed search. A huge improvement over Outlook 2003!
  • Office Ribbon. The new user interface with large icons makes Outlook 2007 easier to use than previous versions.
  • Easier collaboration. Improved calendaring makes it simpler to set up meetings and see other people's calendars.
  • Everything in one place. See a combined 'to do' screen with all important information, including things like RSS feeds.

EMC SAN Storage

EMC storage

TechOnADesk.com stores your data on an enterprise-grade premium infrastructure – an EMC storage area network (SAN).

At a cost of $500,000 each, clustered Microsoft Exchange on an EMC SAN is much faster and more reliable than running Exchange on individual servers with local hard drives:

EMC SAN

  • 2 GB space per mailbox. Other providers include far too little space, then charge outrageous fees for extra storage. We offer Microsoft-recommended
    2 GB mailboxes     for your email. In effect, you will never have to spend time managing storage or pay additional fees with TechOnADesk.com.
  • Fully-aggregated. Your disk space is shared across your whole account, so you can easily allocate a 5 GB mailbox to the CEO and smaller 150 MB mailboxes to part-time workers, for instance.
  • Zero downtime. Our EMC SAN systems have been running continuously for three years – with no unplanned downtime whatsoever.
  • Unparalleled speed. Utilizing a fiber channel connection to our server clusters, performance of our hosted Exchange is extremely fast, both in the US and worldwide.

AntiVirus

TechOnADesk.com includes continuously-updated antivirus protection with our hosted Exchange service, using multiple anti-virus engines.

Anti-virus

Using our custom-engineered antivirus server cluster, we scan email at the perimeter of the network, before it touches the Exchange server itself:

  • Better protection. Unlike many solutions, such as Microsoft Antigen, our perimeter scanning does not let email close to Exchange server itself, which increases security.
  • Fully-managed. Expert engineers from TechOnADesk.com do all the work of managing and updating the antivirus software, so you are constantly protected.
  • More reliable. Using clustered servers, if one should fail, the others keep working, so you are always protected.
  • Faster speed. Because our antivirus cluster is separate from the actual Exchange server, the email server is not slowed down by having to manage antivirus scanning as well as email.

AntiSpam

Exchange 2007 contains built-in basic antispam protection for your email, included free of charge with our hosted Exchange service.

Our basic antispam protection includes:

  • Perimeter scanning. Messages are checked against realtime blackhole lists, empty 'to' or 'from' fields, and qualified 'from' senders.
  • Intelligent Message Filter. Works with Outlook 2007 to notify you of potential phishing, and is updated frequently by the Exchange 2007 server.
  • Outlook 2007 postmark. Helps stop legitimate senders from being classified as spammers.
  • Two-tier quarantine. Either deletes message or places them in Junk Mail folder.

For more advanced antispam with white and black lists, plus user preferences, consider our SpamStopper advanced antispam solution.

TechOnADesk.com engineers back up your Exchange 2007 server every night. Your vital data is always secure, with no time investment on your part and no risk of lapses in your backup schedule.

Although our EMC SAN data stores have never been offline in several years of constant operation, we take extra precaution and back up your email and data to tape:

  • Off-peak backup. Because our engineering team works 24x7, we can schedule backups for the middle of the night, when server loads are minimal and performance is least affected.
  • Hard-copy options. We will ship copies of your data to you on removable media, upon request.
  • Peace of mind. Never worry about permanent loss of data, as we always have your recent data.

Nightly Backups

TechOnADesk.com engineers back up your Exchange 2007 server every night. Your vital data is always secure, with no time investment on your part and no risk of lapses in your backup schedule.

Although our EMC SAN data stores have never been offline in several years of constant operation, we take extra precaution and back up your email and data to tape:

  • Off-peak backup. Because our engineering team works 24x7, we can schedule backups for the middle of the night, when server loads are minimal and performance is least affected.
  • Hard-copy options. We will ship copies of your data to you on removable media, upon request.
  • Peace of mind. Never worry about permanent loss of data, as we always have your recent data.

To request restoration of mailboxes or public folders from an Exchange 2007 server, please email support@TechOnADesk.com and ask for an Exchange Restoration Request form.

Below are the fees associated with data restoration:

  • $75 mailbox/public folder content restoration of data still located on the Exchange Server
  • $250 mailbox content restoration from backup media
  • $450 public folder content restoration from backup media

Restored mailbox/public folder content will be provided in Microsoft Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) file format.