Hello Everyone, I need know about Exchange Hosted Service? What it is? How it integrates with existing messaging system? What are the benefits? How it works? How it is valueable to partners who implement microsoft solutions? I would really appreciate. Thanks.

Hi, You mean Office365 (or BPOS)? Leif

Can you enlighten me on both. THanks in advance.

Hi, www.office365 should explain everything Leif

Hi You can go to http://www.microsoft.com/online/en-gb/exchange-hosted-services.mspx and download datasheet. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thanks for the reply Terence. I have pretty much gotten the idea of Exchange Hosted Services. It basically offers three solutions: Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive Microsoft Exchange Hosted Encryption It is a solution for filtering, archiving and encrypting you messaging infrastructure. Companies would still be running their messaging infrastructure inside their corporate network, but after the MX change for EHS, they would have the ability to filter, encrypt and archive e-mail traffic. It is not a solution where the messaging system is hosted at Microsoft Datacentres, but just the e-mail flow coming from internet would be first received at Microsoft Datacentres and then after applying policies such as filtering, archiving and encryption, it will be forwarded to corporate network. Questions: 1- Correct me if I have understood the EHS wrongly? 2- Where can I find technical resources for configuring EHS for any of the customers? 3- Is there anything for the partners in it from business point of view? As I am not aware of the technical part of it, I cannot really say, so you I seek your advice whether it can be taken as a project for customers or not? 4- On the same link that you provided, I saw Exchange Online. How is that different from Exchange Hosted Services? Is this a solution where the whole messaging environment of a company is managed by Microsoft Datacentres? If that is the case then can this be taken as a project for customer or not? Thanks in advance.

Hi In fact, EHS is not scope for me to support. So I can’t give you professional conclusion. Maybe you can post it to relevant forum to get answer. Technet forum for exchange 2010 for host http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010hosters/threads Exchange online tech center http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/onlineservicesexchange/threads exchange online office365 forum http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/157/categories.aspx Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.