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What is Microsoft Exchange?

Exchange Server 2019 is an on-premises solution. Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 is the latest version of Exchange. Previous versions include Exchange 2016, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010, and Exchange 2007.

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Exchange Server 2019 is an on-premises solution. Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 is the latest version of Exchange. Previous versions include Exchange 2016, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010, and Exchange 2007.


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Mayuri P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Boost your Organizations Email Security with Microsoft Exchange Online"
We ae using this product from years on our organization and i would say it is one of the good tool that lets you access the emails on outlook, outl...
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Byron C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Has come a long way"
Very powerfull, allows for a lot of scripting, which inturn is complemented with a lot of features. It plays well with the majority of other platforms
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Product is very smooth, with minimal issues."
Seemlees experience. Gui is good and also has easy to use ps commands.
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Microsoft Security Consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

We ae using this product from years on our organization and i would say it is one of the good tool that lets you access the emails on outlook, outlook on the web,outlook mobile by connectiong to the exchange online service.It has advanced features like shared mailboxes,shared calenders.There are so many good features in exchange online out of which i like mail flow,migration,insights,Organisation,Transport rules,Anti-spam, anti malware ,anti phisshing protection on emails ,roles,reports,available in Exchange admin center.Administrators can manage the admin tasks from this easy to use and user friendly exchange admin center. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

Advanced configurartions in exchange admin center requires significant knowledge on poweshell as it requires expertise to perform or automate some tasks,limited customization options available,It has storage limites when it comes to the sharedmailboxes according to the plan choosen,dependancy on good network to deploy the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has a centralized admin center and dashboard with all advance features available that can help you to protect the emails,across the organization.It securely transfers the emails from source to destionation.Also it offers the flexibility to access the emails from different platform on outlook,outlook on the web,outlook mobile app,Granular transport rules that helping us toconfigure the rules according to different conditions and better protect and enhance the security for emails.Mail flow lets us search for the emails across organization users and for investigation purposes that helps administartors in investigation activities.It has native Anti spam,anti-malware,anti phishing protection that adds cherry on cake for this product to consider at first place for organizations email security.This features helps us to detect,protect,investigate the email attacks and boosted email security for our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David Alejandro C.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

Microsoft exchange is easy to use, intuitive and fast, compare to the rest of email products. It let you manage absolutely anything on all of you users. It´s easy to implement and don´t require a full expertise. Microfost gift an amazing support system and help a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

It´s a little bit expensive but it´s for the full features that have into the admin platform, also the availibility of their systems. To explode the full features you need an expert to know how to manage the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help a lot to manage the email system of the company and the users find this tool very helpful and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

Very powerfull, allows for a lot of scripting, which inturn is complemented with a lot of features. It plays well with the majority of other platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

The Cumulative service packs, sometimes causes issues and unless you have a cluster,you have to bring down your environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to keep my email system in-house. I can keep all my data local to my infrustructure and not have anything in the cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kush Kumar K.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

Microsoft Exchange is one of the best platform for email messaging. The best features of exchange we can use it on-premises, on cloude or Hybrid environment. Microsoft provide security from malware, anti phishing or spoofing email. They have their own dedicated security services that is Microsoft Defender. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

I didn't think any limitation in Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft Exchange is always best because always updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being a Microsoft Exchange Administrator I am managing all M365 related task like message trace, released quarantine email, managed licence, managing distribution group, Shared mailbox, security group as well as user mailbox.

Troubleshooting of auto-reply, outlook profile related issues, create Delete Shared mailbox, DL, SM.

Microsoft also provides technical support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

it's easy to use it, easy to implement, I'm using it on daily base, it has very lrge number of features, it's very easy to integrate with other applications. customer support team is very profissional Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

I can't find any thing to be missed. it's complete enterprise mail server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

we needed an email server to use in our organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jasmit Singh J.
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Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

Microsoft Exchange offers extensive control over and security features. Its proprietary ActiveSync protocol is very efficient. Not only this its full of features such as Shared Mailboxes, Archiving and lot more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

A little too complex. Although Microsoft makes user-friendly software, setting up an exchange server is still not easy. Requires knowledge of many other domains and is best done by a team of individuals, making it quite expensive for small businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

Email communication and collaboration, calendering, archiving of old data, large attachments, keeping a check over employee mailboxes by the HR and other departments for ensuring compliance, and a lot more is conveniently provided by Microsoft Exchange Mail services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

MS Exchange is very easy to use for an admin. We can manage user accounts/shared mailboxes/service accounts/Distribution lists all from one portal. We can check licenses, assign permissions with ease. Pretty straight forward and user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

Sometimes it takes a while to sync the changes with Powershell so we end up wasting time in between. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an admin, we can easily manage user accounts and licenses. Also manages Shared mailboxes/Distribution lists/Conference rooms/M365 Groups and delegations and permissions managed from the same portal as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sajad Ahmmad M.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

Enhanced security: Windows Server 2019 new security features, which helps protect servers from malware and other threats.

Server 2019 is more efficient and performs better.

We can scale up to meet the needs of even the most demanding workloads.

We can manage servers more efficiently using a new PowerShell module, a new graphical management console, and a new cloud-based management portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

it is expensive and complex to manage.

Not all features are available that are available in other editions

it should provide more UI features.

Some third-party software applications are not fully optimized or compatible with this version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

In server 2019, various performance enhancements like Storage Spaces Direct provide scalable and highly available storage solutions using commodity hardware.

Server 2019 provides a more secure environment for server Infrastructure.

It comes with Windows Admin Center, that provides centralized interface for managing servers, clusters, virtual machines, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

The Exchange Online Services and data loss encryption were of great help in our business, and it helped us in setting other servers configuration and now I feel things are better for our small business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

Sometimes the MFA and Single Sign- in ask for more and more authentication, which makes it time-consuming to setup things if we are in a hurry or have a meeting. Please see to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem it is solving is 1. Everything is accessed in one place which helps in filling the time gaps, and 2. It helps in segregating a lot of email accounts and Mail Flow is something that helps us more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Exchange?

Seemlees experience. Gui is good and also has easy to use ps commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Exchange?

Pricing is at higher end, which can reduced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?

It offer easy to managemnt of all the mailboxes for a company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.