Hi everyone. We are in a similar boat. After much thought I decided to do a trial with Google Apps Premier. The Google Apps Sync tool connects Outlook and seems to do a decent job so far. I am hoping that people will only see this as a bridge to using Gmail natively.
+cheaper, more space than hosted Exchange +includes Postini mail filtering +interfaces nicely with Outlook 2003/2007 using sync tool (no IMAP needed) +no ads (on by default but you can turn them all off) +admin selectable features (I turned off most non e-mail features for now) +decent Exchange migration tool +apparently can do passthrough authentication to AD +native Activesync support for many phones included (Intermedia charges per user) +very good search (I should hope so) -color categories are lost from Outlook, can be recreated but remain local only -tasks similarly lost in migration but can be recreated locally -rules are lost but can be recreated and run up in Googlespace rather than on Outlook -different web interface might disturb some fragile minds -folders map to labels in Gmail, back to folders on Outlook Since I am in the early phases of the test I don't have much to say about the mass market appeal yet, but I solicited testers and was met with an enthusiastic response by many of my more savvy users. -jake On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:23 PM, David Nolan <[email protected]>wrote: > Greetings, > > We've decided we want to investigate options for hosted or managed > Exchange providers, and compare that to doing an upgrade of our > existing Exchange system from 2003 to 2010. We're building our > requirements list, but I wanted to ask if anyone has specific > recommendations or dis-recommendations for providers in this space, or > specific issues to watch for. >
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