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Hi all
I run a small business of 6 people, we need to move to the cloud for email:we don't want to run a server, we want access anywhere, we want public folders, we want to use Outlook, so we are looking at Hosted Exchange packages.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a provider?
Thanks
Tim
Go to Google Apps for Business and use their mail, which is basically Gmail. But you can have it setup for your domain. It only costs £3.30 per mailbox/month.. This includes Google Drive, allowing you to store Office type documents online, Google Calendar, etc... Also allows shared calendars and collaborative working on Office documents.
Can be setup with Outlook if thats what you require.
For full on Exchange have you looked at Microsoft's own offering as part of Office 365. Looks well priced...
Cheers
Danny B
Really quite keen to maintain the Outlook thing for my staff. Also we need the drag and drop. I hear bad things about the Outlook sync.
Started using 365 hosted with Outlook and so far so good. Around 300 users so far and no issues at all.
Cable and Wireless Worldwide, now Vodafone, provide Managed Exchange services.
EDIT: It seems Vodafone only do Managed Exchange for Enterprise clients at the moment.
[url= http://enterprise.vodafone.co.uk/hosting/managed-exchange/ ]http://enterprise.vodafone.co.uk/hosting/managed-exchange/[/url]
cody are you using Rackspace? They look good but...
danny yes microsoft - it's well priced but there will be no uk telephone support no?
edit - uk support, good
With only 6 users I'd need a very compelling reason not to go with google! Do you really need telephone support? It's just a shame you've missed the boat with the free option.
I use 1and1 for Exchange.
Never had a single problem in 8yrs with them.
365 is the way forwards I reckon. Full office suite too, hard to question.
We're on Google Apps for Business too, 13 users, with our email addresses are linked to the MX records of our domain, so us.er@ourdomain.co.uk
We looked at Office365 and nearly went for it, and I previously hosted Exchange with a 3rd party (Catalyst). I'm really happy with Google though. Emails are rock solid, spam filters are good, collaboration on multiple shared Calendars, Drive and Groups is great, contact sharing works well and third parts apps are really useful (we use Base as a CRM linked through Google).
I think I'm paying about £12 per user per month.
Telephone/email support is good and the remote administration for mobile devices is very good too. As a paid user, you can still use ActiveSync on Apple devices too, if that's important.
Really can't fault it at all...
Thanks all