Exchange Server
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Messaging is now a mission-critical application for business―but delivering a feature-rich messaging service is challenging. Regulatory requirements are becoming increasingly complex. Merger and divestiture activities require rapid adjustment of service capacity. Good technical expertise is in high demand. And the “buy versus build” economics are changing.

A compelling solution to this challenge is Microsoft® Exchange Online, 1 a Microsoft-hosted enterprise messaging service based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Exchange Online helps deliver the messaging protection your company demands and the anywhere 2 access employees want. Exchange Online leverages our knowledge of Microsoft products, best practices developed with customers and partners, and experience operating Microsoft internal corporate messaging to deliver a world-class, mission-critical service. Microsoft handles setup, provisioning, ongoing maintenance and upgrades of your Exchange Server infrastructure, reducing your team’s IT workload and freeing IT resources to focus on core strategic initiatives that move your business forward.

In today's information economy, companies realize more than ever that people are their most important asset. Companies also understand that having a communication and collaboration solution that helps their people work better together is essential.  Finding the right solution, however, can be a challenge.  Communications technologies change quickly. Security concerns are rampant. And company IT resources may be spread thin.  

That’s why many organizations today are turning to Microsoft SharePoint® Online 1. SharePoint Online provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions. Based on Office SharePoint Server 2007, this Microsoft-hosted solution enables employees to easily create and manage custom team and project-focused sites for collaboration, including security-enhanced document sharing. Users get the flexibility and customization they need to truly work efficiently across teams. Microsoft handles setup, provisioning, ongoing maintenance and upgrades of your Office SharePoint Server infrastructure. This reduces the IT workload and frees your IT staff to work on core strategic initiatives that can help move your business forward.

Connect with your colleagues and engage your customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events.  Features include:

• Web client support for remote attendee flexibility

• Interactive application/desktop sharing and whiteboard tools

• Active speaker video switching, multi-party video, and multi-party VoIP audio

• Rich-media presentations, native video conferencing, high-fidelity recording, and Web-cam capabilities

• Training and event management with event and class registration and virtual breakout rooms
  

Office Communicator

Microsoft Office Communications Online delivers robust instant messaging (IM) and presence functionality that enables real-time person-to-person communication via text, voice and video, across an organization. Through presence awareness, workers can quickly detect a colleague's availability for a time-sensitive consult or business-critical decision—and then connect rapidly using a reliable, security-enhanced IM solution.

Office Communications Online requires the separate purchase and installation of Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2. As a limited time offer, Office Communications Online customers receive one licensed copy of Office Communicator 2007 R2 at no cost with each trial or paid subscription license to Office Communications Online. The software may only be used with Office Communications Online, and all rights to use the software will terminate upon expiration of the underlying subscription license or release of the next major new version of Office Communications Online, whichever comes first.

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange consists of layered technologies to actively help protect businesses’ inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations.