Exchange hosted services vs non hosted services?
Hi all ,
I need to know the difference between exchange hosted services and exchange non hosted services.
RegardsMCITP Enterprise Messaging Administrator, MCITP Enterprise Administrator, MCSE, MCDBA
February 7th, 2011 8:49am
Hosted services = Exchange runs on a server (or servers) offsite in the datacenter of another company specialized in these services.
Non-hosted = the Exchange servers are onsite - you are in charge of all aspects of managing them.
Although even in this case, many outsource mail hygiene (antispam, anitvirus) to a third party like Postini or MX Logic.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each option and a variety of ways to implement this.
Colocation - you share resources with other hosted companies (several companies could be on one server - or more likely, set of clustered servers).
You could also simply store your equipment in a data center and benefit from lower electricty costs (big data center can buy at bulk rates).
Exchange 2010 now allows "multi-tenancy" where you can have some mailboxes managed onsite and others hosted.
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February 7th, 2011 9:45am