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Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive Continuity

Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive

Internet-based support for your existing e-mail.

Microsoft Exchange Hosted Continuity helps protect and provide continuous access to e-mail for a business and its employees, if the primary e-mail system becomes unavailable.

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Starting from £1.57 per user per month

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How Continuity Works with Exchange Hosted Services

How Continuity Works with Exchange Hosted Services

Features and benefits by organisation role
Employee Disaster Recovery Manager
End users can access their Hosted Continuity mailbox by logging into a security-enhanced Web browser from nearly anywhere. Whether the outage is planned or unplanned, users always have access to email.
  • Compose, receive and send messages in real time
  • Reference the last 30 days of sent and received email messages
  • Transition to a Web-based application easily, using a familiar interface
  • Message repository is not burdened by unwanted content because Forefront Online Security for Exchange* helps block spam and viruses
  • Restore messages to the primary mailbox if necessary
  • Access the entire company directory for addressing internal messages
  • No software or client-side changes required

*Forefront Online Security for Exchange is required and available in various CAL packages as well as standalone

Tools are available to IT staff to assist with communication, message management and user administration.
  • Broadcast updates via the Announcement Board in the application. Posts are listed chronologically and unique expiry dates can be assigned
  • Designate Callers and their assigned Callees using the Call Tree feature. Use the Call Tree report in emergencies, as an alternative method for contacting employees
  • Restore email with the Mass Restoration function. Just set the start and end timestamps for the outage
  • Issue secondary Disaster Password (globally) when users have forgotten their primary password
  • Gain usage insight from activity logs with the easy to use reporting tool and a collection of printable reports
  • Measure user logon success rate with the Readiness Test. Companion report reveals results

Exchange Hosted Continuity Service Components

Allows access to e-mail during and after network outages
Exchange Hosted Continuity allows users to access a 30-day rolling historical archive and send and receive messages in real time.

No software or client-side installations
or integration required.

Searchable message store for easy recovery.

Exchange Hosted Continuity Service Benefits

  • Service is always on.
  • Captures messages in transit after they’ve been filtered, helping ensure that spam, viruses, and other unwanted content are kept out of the message store.
  • Familiar Web-based interface helps minimise the need for end-user training and enable access for end users from virtually any location.
  • All system actions are logged and available for auditing and investigative purposes.
  • Searchable message store provides easy recovery and restoration of individual or all messages.
    Minimises up-front capital investment.
  • Easily integrates with existing e-mail infrastructure.
  • Helps free up administrator time to focus on other projects.

Exchange Hosted Continuity Service Features

  • Familiar Web-based interface minimises the need for end-user training and enables access for end users from virtually any location.
  • All system actions are logged and available through the Event Viewer online auditing tool.
  • Communication tools and Readiness Test help enable preparedness.
  • Easily restore messages for individuals or an entire organisation.
  • Choice of location for data storage (US or non-US).
  • 30-day rolling store provides recent messages for continuous productivity.

Exchange Hosted Continuity Additional Information

Exchange Hosted Continuity Technical Requirements

  • Exchange Hosted Archive and Exchange Hosted Continuity require Microsoft Exchange Server 2000(SP3), 2003(SP1) and 2007
  • Exchange Hosted Continuity requires Forefront Online Security for Exchange
  • The Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services Directory Synchronisation tool is optional, and requires:
    • Windows Server 2003 SP2
    • Active Directory (single-forest topology)
    • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (required for Safelist aggregation Synchronisation feature)
    • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
  • Web applications are accessible via a Web browser (Internet Explorer 6 or 7)