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| Microsoft Introduces Exchange Hosted Services Microsoft Corp. has announced new branding, a new licensing model and the road map for Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services (EHS), formerly known as FrontBridge Technologies Inc. EHS is composed of four distinct services including Hosted Filtering, Hosted Archive, Hosted Continuity and Hosted Encryption. These services offer hosted solutions to help ensure the security and high availability of an organization's messaging environment while satisfying internal policy and regulatory compliance requirements. In addition, Microsoft today unveiled a new per-user licensing model for all the services as well as road map details, including information about the upcoming EHS 5.3 release and the 6.x series of releases that will align with Exchange "12" availability. EHS is the latest addition to the Exchange Server solution portfolio and a key offering in Microsoft's software as a service strategy. EHS helps reduce large upfront capital investment and free up IT resources, empowering companies to concentrate on areas most critical to their business. Operating over the Internet as a service without any hardware or software to install on premise, EHS enables organizations to better protect against e-mail-borne malware, satisfy retention requirements for compliance, encrypt data to preserve confidentiality, and help preserve access to e-mail during and after emergency situations. These services include the following: - Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering, available with a free 30-day trial, incorporates multiple filters to actively help protect businesses' inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams and e-mail policy violations. - Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive is an advanced message archiving system for e-mail and instant messages that helps enterprises meet a variety of regulatory and legal demands placed on their electronic communication systems. - Microsoft Exchange Hosted Continuity is a security-enhanced Web interface that allows ongoing access to e-mail during and after unplanned outages of an on-premise e-mail environment. - Microsoft Exchange Hosted Encryption helps preserve e-mail confidentiality by allowing users to send and receive encrypted e-mail directly from their desktops. With quality of service a leading priority, Microsoft will continue to innovate on these services with the next release, EHS 5.3, scheduled for April. Key features will include the following: - Continued optimization of filtering effectiveness with improvements to real-time recognition and alerting of spam bursts improves the ability to block new spam attacks. - Faster full-text archive indexing provides an improved indexing process that allows users to search e-mail based on keywords for queries that produce up-to-the-minute results. - Added language support for Spam Quarantine provides EHS Spam Quarantine for end users that now support 13 languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, and traditional and simplified Chinese character sets. - Directory Services usability enhancements deliver a new process for moving and managing directory information, enabling a simplified process for account creation and management. - Admin Center security enhancements includes added options to enforce additional password policies, such as requiring strong passwords and forcing password expiration. Following the release of EHS 5.3, Microsoft will continue to provide regular updates that focus on active protection, confident compliance, and reduced cost and complexity. Microsoft will deliver the 6.x release series to coincide with Exchange "12" availability, and will include support in it for calendar and contacts in the Hosted Continuity and Archive services, better directory integration, and broader support for languages in Spam Quarantine and the Admin Center. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |