KerioConnect vs Microsoft Exchange comparison

"What I like most about Kerio Connect is that it supports ActiveSync, and that is its most critical feature. The solution is also a nice, simple, robust, and stable mail server."

"Kerio Connect is secure, flexible, and easy to control from the user interface. It has many security features able to be controlled from one place, such as anti-spam. I have found it very convenient. Additionally, you can analyze log files and share folders which is helpful."

"The user interface is good."

"It's relatively simple to use."

"The most valuable features are security and privacy because you installed it on your server, within your company premises, not in the cloud."

"We have contacted technical support a handful of times and received some assistance."

"The solution is easy to maintain, unlike Exchange. It's easy to create multiple domains and back up and restore if needed. It also has good security features like anti-spam and antivirus."

"KerioConnect has integration with 365. We can use Outlook, which has its client and can be used with Apple devices. It integrates with the App Store and Microsoft Office. It has a smart router. The spam filtering and antivirus are good."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange is its communication capabilities."

"The latest versions have gotten much better about balancing the load on the backend."

"Microsoft Exchange has good performance and is user-friendly."

"Exchange's interface is good. All of our engineers like it and are accustomed to using it."

"It's user-friendly."

"It has a feature that allows you to retain an email and recover it as an administrator. When you activate this feature, even if a user deletes an email, the email is still in the system, and we can retrieve it as an administrator. It is a very useful function. We turn this feature on for some of the mailboxes because we need to keep all the records. I like the way emails are classified in this solution. It makes it really easy to take a look at the most important messages. This is a really good functionality. Some of the emails directly exchanged with you are marked as important and shown in one tab, and everything else is in another tab. We usually don't have any issue with Exchange. It can be integrated with different solutions."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange is the collaboration tools."

"The product can scale."

"KerioConnect is stable as long as you use a strong password."

"I would like to see better support from their support team."

"We are considering switching to Microsoft Exchange. One reason is that it doesn't improve our workflow and doesn't integrate well with Microsoft 365 applications."

"It could be simpler to use and install, but I still wouldn't use it because there isn't a compelling use case."

"KerioConnect continues to improve with regular updates throughout the year. They must be added to the roadmap, which requires approval."

"You cannot integrate with other services like Google Docs, Google Assistant, Google Calendar, etc."

"The search and archiving documentation capabilities need to be stronger."

"Most of our clients use Outlook and Kerio Connect. Occasionally, Kerio can be a bit slow. They could make it faster to get onto the web interface without so much load time. It's just slow with Outlook, however, for some reason."

"It doesn't work very well on a virtual machine. We had to move it around. There are also issues when you try to move it between computers."

"When an update wants to come, it should just come maybe once or twice rather than having us deal with constant updating."

"Its search functionality can be better. It is currently not really easy. It has the capability to search your mailbox, but it has some restrictions in terms of the number of results that you can retrieve. You can only get around 250 results. If you want to do a deeper search, you need to use different functionalities of the product. The policy that we have for handling emails is that we do not delete emails at all. If I insert the text that I am searching for in the Search field, it only retrieves a limited number of emails. To search for an email from 2010, I need to use different search functions to find what I am looking for. Microsoft can also improve its licensing for its products. Microsoft's licensing is not very easy to understand. It can sometimes be really complex to understand what you need to have in order to comply with Microsoft licensing."

"We would prefer to be able to manage the solution on the cloud."

"The solution's hybrid deployment process could be improved, particularly for customers who initially started in the cloud and may want to return to an on-premises setup. Microsoft could make this transition more flexible."

"We are not able to use Microsoft Teams due to connection issues. Thus, the product integration with Teams could be improved."

"It's not always the finest solution in terms of integration with products that are not from Microsoft. It integrates very well with Microsoft products but not with third-party products."

"Microsoft could improve on Exchange's hybrid deployment or HCW. They need to improve on that because I was having many issues with HCW in our environment at times."

"The pricing is about $3 per mailbox per month."

"The solution's pricing depends on how long you plan to keep it because you pay on a per-year basis. You might have a one-time setup cost for something like Microsoft Exchange or a Linux mail server. I'd say this solution is expensive on a per-year basis, almost 2000-3000 dollars annually. It doesn't seem to pay off yet, so we're considering switching to another product."

"KerioConnect has a first-time cost and yearly subscription. It is not expensive."

"The price of Kerio Connect is better when comparing it to others solutions."

"Microsoft Exchange is a very well-priced solution."

"This solution is expensive."

"Microsoft Exchange is an inexpensive application."

"It's working very well. There is no problem, but the price is not the best."

"There is an annual cost to use Microsoft Exchange, and the price could be less expensive."

"We are currently using enterprise licenses for the solution. They are different pricing models available. There are individual, cloud-based, and enterprise licenses all with different pricing models. The larger the number of users, the lesser the price. For small to medium companies like us, we feel it is expensive."

"Microsoft's licensing structure is too complex, but its prices are affordable, though not cheap."

"Its price is okay."