How far can you go - can you at least get to Office 2007? Office 2002 was one of the worst ones Microsoft ever put out - even Office 2003 is a significant improvement.
If you have 100 users then probably your CHEAPEST hosted Exchange is going to cost you $500 a month. In a year that's $6000. Over three years that's $18,000. I'd be surprised if buying your own Exchange server costs you more than $10K or $12K over that period. And that's assuming you find hosted Exchange for only $5/user/month. Some services charge twice that. There's this curious belief that Exchange is expensive to maintain. It's really not in the small/medium-sized business. You're not federating global data centers - you have ONE server that is tied to Active Directory. When you create a user it automatically creates a mailbox. It's not any harder to provision an Outlook profile with a local Exchange server. Backups, once configured, should run fairly automatically every night. Just need to swap the media regularly and test it occasionally. It's not like you have to log into your Exchange server and tweak it on a daily (or even monthly) basis. I can't remember the last time I logged into the admin console of our Exchange server to do anything other than add a new user when we hired somebody - and that was something I'd have to do anyhow to give them an Active Directory account. 100 users is a small Exchange server. The biggest expense is the server itself and the Exchange CALs. There will be a little bit of initial setup cost and then it should pretty much just run. Hosted Exchange is cheaper to get into initially, of course, but at $500+ a month it adds up quickly. By the end of the first 12-18 months I doubt you have any savings left. I generally recommend hosted Exchange services mostly for firms with 20-25 or fewer users. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com / www.officeforlawyers.com / www.onenote-tips.com Member: American Bar Association - 01473703 Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Word 2007: http://tinyurl.com/abaword2007 From: Kelli Sterley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:34 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosted Email Solutions Lol - I know. Trust me, I've been trying to get them to move to Office 2010 for a while now. But we have some apps that don't support it. And $ constraints are always a fight ... I am also looking at and exchange server but once again, cost is a factor. Although it seems it might be less expensive in the long run. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Ben Schorr <[email protected]> wrote: Office 365 would be my recommendation. And for the love of all that's good get off of Outlook 2002 and PST files. J Outlook 2010 with OST files (synced to Hosted Exchange like Office 365) is DRAMATICALLY better. For 100 users is there a reason why you haven't gone with an on-premise Exchange server? Might be cheaper than hosting in the long run. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer ______________________________________________ Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com [email protected] From: Kelli Sterley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:01 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosted Email Solutions The Powers that Be won't go with Google ... I'll look at Office365. I've also been investigating InterMedia. I didn't know if there were more options out there or if there were already people on the list using email hosts that they would recommend On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Rod Trent <[email protected]> wrote: Gmail? Office365? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/online-software.aspx From: Kelli Sterley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hosted Email Solutions We are looking to oursource our email. We are currently using SmarterMail 3.3 which is WAY out of date. Does anyone have suggestions on good hosted solutions? If you use hosted mail, who do you use and why? How is the support, was the transition smooth? 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