How to Buy Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services
There are different options for purchasing Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services through Microsoft partners. Exchange Hosted Services include filtering, archive, continuity, and encryption and are licensed through both service providers and reseller partners.
Note: If you are outside the United States and Canada, you can get pricing information from your local Microsoft office. Find contact information for your Microsoft office on the Microsoft Worldwide Information site.
Exchange Hosted Services
Whether you run Exchange Server in-house or outsource your e-mail through a service provider, Exchange Hosted Services better protect your messaging environment, while reducing IT cost and complexity.
Estimated Pricing
All prices below are based on estimated retail pricing (per user, per month licensing). This pricing would apply to a small business with as few as five users; pricing is lower for increased seat counts.
Service | Price | Comments |
US$1.75 | Exchange Hosted Filtering is a fully managed service that employs multiple technologies to help prevent spam, viruses, and phishing scams from reaching corporate networks and to help enforce corporate e-mail-use policies. Exchange Hosted Filtering can be purchased as a standalone service, and is also included in a number of different Microsoft product suites, including Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, ECAL, Exchange Enterprise CAL, and Forefront Security Suite. | |
US$1.88 | Exchange Hosted Encryption is a policy-based e-mail encryption service that offers customizable policies based on users, keywords, character patterns, attachment types, and more to identify messages that require encryption. Exchange Hosted Filtering is required. | |
US$2.46 | Exchange Hosted Continuity is an e-mail continuity service that is always on, providing your user community with access to the last 30 days of e-mail and the ability to send and receive e-mail in real time, should the primary e-mail system become unavailable. Exchange Hosted Filtering is required. | |
US$8.60 | Exchange Hosted Archive is a security-enhanced online repository that captures and retains external and internal e-mail, instant messaging, and Bloomberg messaging according to company policy. Access permissions enable various business functions to use the Hosted Archive for compliance-related activities. Organizations can store, in aggregate, up to 3.6 GB per user during a 3-year retention term with cost of service. Additional storage is available and priced per GB. Exchange Hosted Filtering is required. |
Hosted Continuity is included with Hosted Archive; therefore, purchase one or the other and not both.
Available Licensing Programs
All services in Volume Licensing are ordered through Microsoft Volume Licensing Services through the programs listed below:
Business Productivity Online Suite
Enterprise Agreement
Enterprise Agreement Subscription
Select
Select Academic
Select U.S. Government
Open Value
Open Value Subscription
Campus (Higher Education)
School (K-12)
Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA)
Exchange Hosted Services is not available through Microsoft Open License Program (MOLP).
Activation Process
Below is the step-by-step process for ordering and activating any or all of the Exchange Hosted Services.
Sign an agreement for one of the licensing programs listed above. Once an agreement has been signed (or if an existing agreement is already in place), place an order through a Microsoft reseller partner.
Once Microsoft receives the order from the reseller partner, Microsoft's operations team will send an automated e-mail to the Notice's Contact (i.e., the signatory indicated on licensing agreement). This e-mail will instruct to request service activation through Microsoft's online portal where the customer will fill in the necessary information required to provision the service(s).
Once the activation form has been completed in its entirety and submitted, Microsoft will respond to the Notices Contact within two business days if there is an issue with the information submitted, such as an invalid agreement number or a mismatch between the information submitted through the activation portal and the order placed. The customer will be responsible for submitting the correct information before the service can be activated.
If the activation information was submitted correctly, Microsoft will contact the Technical Contact within five business days to provision and activate the service(s).
Watch a guided tutorial of the activation process: 56 KB | 110 KB | 300 KB
Next Steps
To get started, follow these simple steps:
1. Review the Exchange Hosted Services Licensing FAQ.
2. Learn more about licensing options for Exchange Hosted Services:
Volume Licensing. Learn about the different licensing programs through Microsoft Volume Licensing.
Microsoft Volume License Services (MVLS). Learn how to purchase Exchange Hosted Services through Volume Licensing programs.
3. Find a Microsoft reseller.
To acquire licenses from a Microsoft partner, visit the Microsoft Resource Information Center to locate your licensing program representative or get Exchange Hosted Services Partner information.
If you are outside the United States and Canada, visit the Microsoft Worldwide Information site to locate your local Microsoft office.
Contact your local Microsoft U.S. sales office.
Call (800) 426-9400 from the United States or call (877) 568-2495 from Canada to speak with a Microsoft representative today.
4. Contact a Microsoft Hosted Services sales representative.
Send us an e-mail.
Call (866) 463-3866 to speak with a Microsoft representative today.
5. Read the Product Use Rights to understand more about how a company can use the services.
6. Still not ready to purchase? Request a free 30-day Hosted Filtering trial and see for yourself.