Overview
Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) helps protect your businesses’ inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. FOPE provides you with a layer of protection features deployed across a global network of secure data centers. The hosted online services model requires no hardware or software installation and provides you with a predictable payment schedule through a subscription-based service.
Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE) is an add-on service for FOPE that provides you with a convenient, easy-to-use e-mail encryption service that helps you safely deliver confidential business communication.
Benefits
Key benefits of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange include:
Comprehensive Protection
- Provides multi-engine anti-virus and multi-layered anti-spam
- Helps eliminate threats before they reach your corporate firewall
- Helps ensure business policy compliance using Regular Expressions based pattern matching
- Easy-to-use identity based encryption solution through the Exchange Hosted Encryption service add-on
Enterprise-Class Reliability
- Scales to meet the needs of your enterprise using a globally load-balanced network of data centers
- Helps ensure that no email is lost or bounced in the network by automatically queuing email for up to five days in case your servers are unavailable
- Live phone support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at no additional cost
- 90 day Implementation Project Manager Onboarding support for qualifying accounts at no additional cost
Reduced Costs
- Save time on anti-spam management with FOPE; freeing up your network and server resources
- Helps save costly bandwidth by delivering only clean mail to your corporate network
- Help reduce your up-front capital investments using a predictable, subscription-based payment model
Financially Backed SLAs
- Five financially backed SLAs attest to a high quality of service:
- 100% known virus protection
- At least 98% spam e-mail detection
- <1 in 250,000 e-mails false positive ratio
- 99.999% Network uptime
- Rapid e-mail delivery (average delivery commitment of less than 1 minute)
How To Buy
You can purchase Forefront Online Protection 2010 for Exchange from
authorized resellers or through Microsoft Volume Licensing. An additional 40% price discount is available for all new and renewing customers who purchase via the Open, Select Plus, and Licensing programs now through June 30th, 2012. For more information:
If you have questions, please contact a Microsoft representative at (800) 426-9400 from the United States or call (877) 568-2495 in Canada.