Microsoft Exchange Whitepapers

The whitepaper section provides detailed technical information on both Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Exchange Online. Content is designed for business and IT decision makers and includes material prepared by Microsoft and by third-parties.

How To Choose The Right Email Solution For Your Business

This paper identifies the top 10 criteria every customer should consider when selecting their next email system and provides advice about how to go about the purchase decision based on Forrester’s survey of 400 IT and business decision-makers.

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Forrester: Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Exchange Online

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Microsoft Exchange Online on their organizations. Forrester’s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should use this study to better understand and communicate a business case for investing in Microsoft Exchange Online.

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How Microsoft Exchange Online Helps Solve IT Challenges

Exchange Online was designed for organizations that want to get the benefits of cloud-based email with the robust capabilities of an on-premises Exchange deployment. The service provides the core features of Microsoft Exchange Server, so you and your users get the same familiar and powerful Exchange features that millions of users rely on in their on-premises email systems today.

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How Should Your Organization Deploy Microsoft Exchange

The purpose of this paper is to help you choose how to deploy Microsoft Exchange: as Exchange Server 2010 on-premises, Exchange Online with Microsoft Office 365 in the cloud, or using both in a temporary or permanent hybrid scenario.

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Forrester: Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Exchange 2010

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Microsoft Exchange 2010 on their organizations. Forrester’s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should use this study to better understand and communicate a business case for investing in Microsoft Exchange 2010.

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Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V

Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization. Whether it is a few virtual machines running on a single physical computer or a whole server farm across multiple root servers, virtualization optimizes investment in hardware and network infrastructure. This paper provides guidance and best practices for deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V technology.

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Exchange 2010 Large Mailbox Vision

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 enables you to give your users larger mailboxes at lower cost without sacrificing performance or reliability. Built-in high availability and disaster recovery, storage system improvements, and self-healing from disk faults let you use large, inexpensive disks in configurations that maximize data redundancy.

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Addressing E-mail Archiving and Discovery with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Read how the integrated email archiving, retention and discovery features in Exchange 2010 can help your organization more effectively preserve and discover the critical business communications conducted over email. Whether you are trying to reduce storage costs, address regulatory compliance, or meet time tables for legal discovery, Exchange 2010 can bring new benefits to your organization.

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Voicemail: Unrealized Potential

Many organizations take voicemail for granted. They use it every day, yet expect nothing more than a sophisticated answering machine. With the power of Unified Messaging and Exchange Server 2010, you can not only save money, you can transform voicemail into an enhanced productivity tool that helps users get more from their communications.

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The True Cost of Legacy Voicemail

The purpose of this study is to understand the costs of maintaining and supporting legacy voice mail systems. COMMfusion interviewed a number of enterprise customers and resellers and found migrating to a unified messaging (UM) solution, such as Microsoft Exchange UM has significant benefits over stand-alone voice mail systems and can save money.

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Addressing Compliance with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can help organizations better meet compliance requirements for email including data retention, discovery, policy management and security. This paper provides an overview of compliance tools in Exchange 2010 and describes how they can help support common compliance scenarios.

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Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

Read this white paper to learn how the Forefront Management Shell provides a fully scriptable interface into Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE 2010). The FPE 2010 administrator console is implemented on top of the PowerShell interface, providing assurance that all functionality provided in the console is also implemented within PowerShell.

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