Microsoft Exchange Reviews

I just use it for email.

The security and compliance features have impacted our organization. We use multifactor authentication with mobile authentication for the first use on any PC or device. We also have a feature that requires re-authentication if you haven't logged in for a certain amount of time.

It's very well integrated with OneDrive and Teams Calendar. We are using Microsoft 365, so the integration is very good.

Until now, I think integration with the Copilot AI would be good. 

I like its reliability. It's very stable, and it just works.

The events and meetings feature are the most beneficial for managing communications.

It is synchronized automatically with our organization's calendar, and everyone is aware of the event or meeting. We can meet in person or through Microsoft Teams.

More AI features would be good. For example, maybe AI could suggest sentences or enhancements to paragraphs while writing an email.

So, the CoPilot integrations could be further improved. 

I have been using it for about ten years now.

It is very stable.

It is scalable. Scalability is one of the powerful features of all Microsoft products.

There are about 700 users in our organization who use Exchange.

I used Mail Enable. The integration with the calendar. The other solution was a little bit hard.

The initial setup was straightforward. The setup us not complex than it needs to be. It works smoothly.

I work with the on-premises version of Exchange. It is deployed across multiple locations.

The deployment and maintenance part is covered by another team.

Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.

We mainly use Exchange for the email, calendar, and contact management features. 

The functionality on the user side is quite good. Exchange provides an excellent platform for collaboration between users. 

Exchange's management could be improved a bit, and its troubleshooting tools are limited at times. It's not easy sometimes to troubleshoot. That's another area where there's room for improvement.

Microsoft could make it easier to combine comments in the GUI. It isn't easy to do certain things in Exchange, primarily if the administrator isn't used to the command line, so I think the customer interface could be improved.

I've been using Microsoft Exchange for 15 years.

Exchange's application front services are robust and scalable.

I've never had to contact Microsoft support about issues with Exchange. We used to have a support contract with Microsoft, but it was for integration. However, the technology itself is mature though, and we have extensive experience managing Exchange. But if there are matters related to the environment, sometimes it is tricky. You have to build your own capability and rely on it when there is some novel use case.

If you want to run Exchange as an on-premises solution, you have to cover infrastructure costs. If cost is an issue, you can opt for Office 365 instead. But I'm fine with what we're paying because we have no problem budgeting for an Exchange server.

I rate Microsoft Exchange nine out of 10. 

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Exchange is its ease of use.

It is important to have the updated version for scalability.

I have been using Microsoft Exchange for approximately four years.

The solution is stable.

The scalability of Microsoft Exchange is good.

There is not a lot of support needed from the vendor. We can provide the training for the customers.

The solution can be complex depending on the environment. Additionally, it depends on the other solutions or authentication needed.

The time it takes to deploy Microsoft Exchange depends on the customer's environment. However, with a consultant, it can be done in a reasonable timeframe.

The steps that are taken for the implementations depend if we have to do any duplication or if it is a new installation. If it is a new installation it is easy.

A minimum of three technical staff is needed for the implementation of Microsoft Exchange.

There are different prices depending on the customer's use cases and amount of users. The price of the solution could improve.

I rate Microsoft Exchange a ten out of ten.

We are using Microsoft Exchange for collaboration but mainly for email.

Microsoft Exchange could improve by being more secure. We are always looking to have more security.

I have been using Microsoft Exchange for approximately 20 years.

Microsoft Exchange is highly stable for the end-user systems. When we move to Office 365, it will be even more stable even. There's less administration required and it's very robust. We are really quite happy in using that.

The stability can depend on the user's internet speed. If the speed is good then the solution can be scalable.

We have approximately 3,000 to 4,000 users using this solution.

There are two to three people doing the maintenance of the Microsoft Exchange.

We have had an enterprise license agreement for three years. We are always seeking more value for our money, the price could be reduced.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Exchange an eight out of ten.

We mostly used Exchange for sending emails and for document management. We also used Exchange to get information from a user's profile but we didn't use Exchange for filing.

Personally, I'd say Outlook is a good feature. We used it for scheduling appointments, for storage and archiving, so we could easily find old mail and documents, even ECF documents. A lot of people like using Outlook as a personal archive. 

When we started using Exchange on the cloud, we had a lot of initial problems relating to our main database and we also experienced issues with the accidental deletion of inboxes, amongst other things. In fact, many of the files we had moved to the cloud had disappeared. There also seems to be a problem with the retention of information. For example, if you delete something, you may have a problem restoring the entirety of the inbox, so if somebody leaves and you want to backup your data, you need to download it to your local servers. This is a big area for improvement. 

Currently, we are using Office 365, but we used Exchange for more than 20 years.

As I mentioned earlier, we have a very big database which can lead to some problems. Due to the algorithm, we tend to experience a lot of issues restoring and fixing problems. For example, we would have to retrieve all of the mail from our database and load it into a new database. We only had that problem in the beginning because of the algorithm, not because of Exchange. Now, we manage to serve almost 99% of the information. 

We get our support through a third party. We have an Enterprise Agreement with Microsft but we don't receive customer service directly from them. Our third party company receives support from Microsoft, and when we have a problem, we deal with them; however, I've only used them once or twice. Other than that, my own systems engineer solves our problems.

 As we had more than 40 users, we had four or five people who handled maintenance.

The initial setup was complex. When we set up Exchange on one server, it was very simple. Keep in mind, you need to be an expert to install the Exchange server because of all of the connections, the TLS-ing, connecting to the internet and ISP; it just wasn't simple at all. 

Microsoft may tell you that deployment is as easy as " a click of the mouse", but this is not the case. 

If done at the same time, deployment takes roughly five hours. After that, if we are migrating from an older version of Exchange to a newer version, it takes a very long time. In other words, migration takes much, much longer than the initial installation, which takes roughly four to five hours. When it's working, it's very stable; however, this was not the case 15 years ago, but in the last 10 years, it's been okay. When we experience a problem, it is strictly due to the algorithm. 

It depends on what the user's needs are. A lot of people can now use Gmail or they can use Exchange on Office 365 with a license, there are a lot more options available nowadays. If you're thinking about installing Exchange on-premise, on behalf of a client, a lot of people have now moved to the cloud, to Azure or something similar. If a client asked me to purchase a 365 license, including the Exchange server, I might decline. If they want to hold meetings or something similar, I'd suggest that they use a professional service like Gmail for businesses. It's a much cheaper option because a lot of people that work with Microsoft office end up buying one or two 365 licenses which include Exchange, so they use it. 

Because I have a lot of experience using Exchange, I would rate it between eight and nine out of ten. It's not a perfect ten, but for our purposes, it was perfect.  

The primary use case is sending and responding to email.

Our primary use is protection of email. Email is the primary mode of communication. With Exchange, the user can access it anywhere on mobile or laptop. It becomes easy for them to communicate with their vendors and consumers. So that is why we chose Exchange.

It is easy to use and we can allow many users because now our users are scattered  They over a wide area. We can use it from anywhere. That is the main benefit for us.

In terms of probability, every now and then there are changes coming and going. The changes are not that frequent because every month they got updates back, so that is an issue.

We always have a higher variability configuration ready and we've got two mailbox servers, so even if one goes down, we can use it, we can still access our mail. As far as variability in internet we've never had any major issues.

We have not had scalability concerns. We had already planned for scalability and everything, and when we started we were only ten user accounts but we got thousand users so we planned for a thousand users so we never had any issue. We still have room for expansion so it's not an issue for us.

We previously used Google gmail. But,we have a lot of expertise with Exchange. And the thing with Google, or any dormant solution, is that we are a semi-dormant algorithm and we can't have our data out on the cloud.

It was a straightforward implementation. We just had five or six servers off Exchange and never had any issues. It was a very straightforward thing for us, we just made sure that we found it well and we went by the phases and a small issues moving from the old version of Exchange to the new version of Exchange, but it was small DNA. No major issues along the way.

VNA redundancy has grown in the data, VNA data variability has grown, even in case VNA found the server goes down, and users can still access their email. So basically everything is good. The feature VNA almost as good as having your own Outlook, although it's better VNA.

I mainly use Exchange for exchanging emails.

The best features are that Exchange is very customer-friendly, its interface is self-explanatory, it doesn't hang, and it keeps evolving.

An improvement would be to combine Exchange and Teams so that emails, calls, and chats can be integrated into one window.

I've been using this solution for a few years.

Exchange is stable.

I would recommend Exchange to those considering using it, and I'd rate it nine out of ten.

At the moment, our primary use case is mostly for mailing, but in the near future we will be more focused on collaboration, as well.

There is nothing special that I like with Exchange. They made a system that works in business. It is quite normal that companies use Exchange.

In terms of what should be improved, they should probably move to a cloud option like Office 365. We would like to get this functionality without the need to deploy complex hardware and software solutions. This should be the next thing, making Exchange more related to Office products, which are more cloud-oriented, less on-premise or desktop-oriented solutions, like the direction Google is strongly moving towards.

I have been using Microsoft Exchange for about five years.

In terms of stability, if you are a user or if you have a number of users, especially a big number of users, there will occasionally be some bugs in the product. That is a normal situation.

In terms of current users, I think we have about 3,000 or 4,000.

They are not dedicated solely to the Exchange. They are also supporting other software technology solutions.

My experience with tech support is that they are mostly good enough.

The initial setup is quite a straightforward process. I don't think it is a very complicated solution. Plenty of things could be more complex, but the ordinary, general settings are quite simple.

My personal preference would be a Google solution. It is not a big difference. My advice to anyone considering Microsoft Exchange would be, stay with your product because switching to another product can be costly and a complicated task.

On a scale from 1 to 10, I would rate Microsoft Exchange a 6.

It may be that some nice features are missing.